February: C.TI monthly round up!

1. EU extending Digital Identity support beyond country borders.
   The EU have announced their European digital identity framework will provide EU citizens with digital access to key public services across EU borders. This signals a paradigm shift away from centralized commercial authentication providers towards allowing citizens to manage and present their data independently and privately.
2. Australia remains a global leader in Digital Identity adoption; state and nationally.
   Australian states and territories push to align nationally on the adoption of Digital Identity. New South Wales Digital Minister Victor Dominello shares more here about their program and positive impact to the public specifically.  A significant precedent for other countries to observe and likely, in the not too distant future, follow.
3. The 'invisible crime' of Indigenous identity fraud.
   A senator in Manitoba, Canada calls for investigation into the damaging effects of false Indigenous identity claims. A well known problem across countries with Indigenous populations. Drawing light on the importance of defining a capability to easily present and verify one’s true Indigenous status.
4. A sustainable move beyond passwords (finally!). Passkeys gathering mainstream attention.
   Passwords continue to be exploited and forgotten. Multi-factor authentication is being enforced more widely, largely at the cost of user convenience. Thankfully passkeys offer an option to optimize both security and user experience and do away with passwords, at last. Passkeys present a strong foundation for which a robust internet identity layer can be layered.
5. The European Digital Identity Wallet Architecture and Reference Framework.
   The EU has released their digital identity reference framework, full PDF download here. Worth noting, it is largely powered by OpenID Connect: OpenID4VP, OpenID4VCI, SIOPv2.

Adam Lemmon is the Manager of Engineering Operations at Convergence.Tech