Digital Identity · 2026-06-27

Strategic Identity Asymmetry: Why Digital Infrastructure Governance Fails Where Technology Succeeds in Brazil, Nigeria, and the Philippines

SSRN

Cross-border digital identity interoperability fails when states can issue credentials but cannot export trust. The paper's central contribution is to relocate the binding constraint from protocols and enrollment infrastructure to assurance grammar, accreditation authority, trusted lists, and institutional capacity.

Digital Identity · 2026-05-05

Self-Sovereign Identity and the Future of Digital Trust: From India to the World

Data Security Council of India / Digi Yatra Foundation / National Centre of Excellence

The paper frames self-sovereign identity as a strategic shift from institutional data accumulation to holder-mediated verification, but its governance model still depends on future trust registries, legal recognition, sectoral mandates, revocation controls, and redress institutions that are not yet operationalized.

Digital Identity · 2026-04-06

A Cryptographic Framework for Proof of Personhood

Reference page for IACR ePrint paper

The paper usefully formalizes privacy-preserving proof of personhood as a cryptographic problem, but its real governance challenge lies upstream of the proofs: who is allowed to issue personhood, what social relationships count, and how those judgments are revoked, contested, and made legible across institutions.