COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Advancement of Digital Identity
By restricting and changing the shape of human interaction for over a year, the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the digitalization of many services and, in doing so, reinvigorated efforts to establish a cross-contextual digital identity infrastructure.
In today's digital and interconnected world, the ability to verify individuals' identity attributes without resorting to physical identifiers is increasingly important. However, today's digital identity systems are remarkably underdeveloped.
