SDG16: Part 2 — Enforcing Digital Identity

The UN Digital Solutions Centre has already established the digital ID framework for UN personnel.

A modular "Suite" of digital solutions that are "Interoperable" is an important concept to grasp, as it effectively creates a single system of digital identity while giving the public the impression that there are instead many "Decentralised" systems of digital identity.

9 progress has been made in developing and emerging economies, digital ID interoperability needs to be firmly established before enforcing digital ID upon the rest of the world's population.

OpenG2P, which provides "Government-to-person solutions," enables governments to provide digital "Onboarding into schemes, identity verification, and cash transfers to their bank accounts." According to the UN, OpenG2P is a digital public good.

Everything related to global health care, including all of our health data, all information both online and off, all global economic activity, all trade and finance; the internet and all digital infrastructure, digital services, all data and "More." The regime and its G3P regime claims both the authority and the ability to govern it all.

Highlighting global inequality in the distribution and relative access costs of digital technology, the Digital Compact's stated objective is "To overcome digital, data and innovation divides and to achieve the governance required for a sustainable digital future." The deceptive moral "Sustainable" case is made, ensuring most accept the proffered justification.

Apparently, 73 such products are necessary for SDG3 to transform global public health and health care; 25 digital public goods are needed in order for SDG2 to eradicate global hunger, 37 interoperable digital applications are allegedly essential for SDG4 to transform education and so on.

The regime's concept of "Financial inclusion," as highlighted in its Global Digital Compact, will see our digital IDs linked to our "Bank or mobile money accounts.”

In 2021, the Ugandan human rights watchdog "Unwanted Witness" published its report on digital "Exclusion" entitled "Chased Away and Left To Die." Unwanted Witness academics recorded a litany of abuses and cruel exclusions that had been facilitated by Ugandan digital ID. Ugandans had to bribe officials to gain the necessary "Sanctioned" signatures for their digital ID applications.

A digital platform that enables a public-private partnership of "Vendors" to integrate their products and services to a centrally controlled "Portal," has emerged as the foremost model for the "Global digital transformation." The "Platform model" is preferred by governments around the world for a range of digital ID-based "Services.”

The biometric digital ID they will need in order to avail themselves of digital "Money" will feel "Vendor agnostic" even though it will actually be forming part of the "Universal Global Identity System.”

The Coinbase narrative, like much else written in the DIDs space, appears to be designed to entice web 3.0 acolytes to "Onboard." In truth, it is mostly nonsensical word salad. "Trust" is certainly pertinent, precisely because our biometric digital ID won't be hidden from the so-called "Trusted third parties." Once again, it is necessary to consider the use of misleading language, even if there is no intention to mislead. In a 2016 white paper, written for the ID2020 design workshop, the dichotomy between the concept of "Decentralisation," as most of us understand its meaning, and its use when discussing digital products and services was laid bare.