The European Commission proposed before the summer an EU-wide framework to enable all EU citizens to have a digital identity but it did not urge countries to use blockchain in the process, although the technology seems quite fitting. EURACTIV France reports.
“There is an opportunity to deploy a system in Europe based on this concept of self-sovereign identity and to take advantage of this formidable regulation to put digital trust back at the center of exchanges,” said Hervé Bonazzi, head of a consortium founded by the Caisse des Dépôts group, La Poste, and two energy utilities, EDF and Engie.
The e-wallet – on top of having peoples’ surnames, first names, dates, place of birth, gender or nationality – should enable Europeans to identify themselves online and in the long term store a collection of administrative documents of all kinds, which can be recognized and used throughout the bloc for administrative purposes.
“The European digital identity will allow us to act in any member state as we would at home, at no extra cost and more easily, whether we want to rent a flat or open a bank account outside our country of origin,” said Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for digital affairs.
Continue reading: https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/blockchain-might-be-the-solution-to-the-digital-identity-hurdle/
“There is an opportunity to deploy a system in Europe based on this concept of self-sovereign identity and to take advantage of this formidable regulation to put digital trust back at the center of exchanges,” said Hervé Bonazzi, head of a consortium founded by the Caisse des Dépôts group, La Poste, and two energy utilities, EDF and Engie.
The e-wallet – on top of having peoples’ surnames, first names, dates, place of birth, gender or nationality – should enable Europeans to identify themselves online and in the long term store a collection of administrative documents of all kinds, which can be recognized and used throughout the bloc for administrative purposes.
“The European digital identity will allow us to act in any member state as we would at home, at no extra cost and more easily, whether we want to rent a flat or open a bank account outside our country of origin,” said Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for digital affairs.
Continue reading: https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/blockchain-might-be-the-solution-to-the-digital-identity-hurdle/
