Digital Inclusion, Identity, Trust, and Agency

Driving innovation by identifying technology solutions that enable all to participate online without barriers and building consensus in the market

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About the Program

Many areas of human activity in the 21st Century take place within cyberspace. Those excluded from cyberspace are thereby excluded from a key domain of human endeavor. Exclusion may arise from many causes, including affordability, availability, discrimination, and concern for safety.

The “Digital Inclusion, Identity, Trust, and Agency” (DIITA) Industry Connections Program considers causes of exclusion which can be addressed by advancing technology for humanity through standardization and related solutions. Get involved today

DIITA invites all relevant stakeholders to its open and consensus-building processes mainly aiming at:

Ensuring that the conditions of on-line access safeguard our personal agency and dignity in ways that are possible off-line through the standardization lifecycle.
Creating technical capabilities to identify ourselves on-line in a way that protects our privacy, our right to be forgotten, and our off-line ability to have multiple personas; identifying potential standardization opportunities in this vein and encouraging the development of practical, technical outputs to realize this goal.
Developing proposals for technical and contextually applicable standards that enable the needs and voices of all.

Initiative Outcomes

To best advance the goal of designing and developing trust-enabling solutions for the global community, the Industry Connections program for Digital Inclusion Through Trust Agency seeks to cultivate and influence the key groups in the online ecosystem to:

Have agency over our data and cyber-identity
Provide the capacity to identify ourselves online in a way that protects our privacy, our right to be forgotten, and our off-line ability to have multiple personas
Give a voice to the underserved and vulnerable with the creation of standards that are inclusive of their needs
Encourage distributed ledger technology (e.g., Blockchain) standards that facilitate financial inclusion and other decentralized data sharing capabilities
Develop a collaborative approach to technology and policy design regarding digital inclusion, trust, personal data, agency, security and privacy for all demographics

Workstreams

Internet Affordability & Accessibility

^{Focuses on suggesting suitable network designs with reference to technologies, identify parameters which will lead to cost reduction, growth pattern of subscribers in rural areas, technology based capital expenditure and break-even time based on different technologies.}

Privacy by Design

^{The workstream develops a white paper to provide balanced information on issues as it relates to privacy by design for the personal digital data technology space.}

Dignity and Agency in Identity

^{This workstream seeks to provide guidance and principles in examining dignity and agency in relation to digital inclusion.}

Governance in Identity

^{This workstream develops guidelines and principles as it relates to the governance and security of digital identity of users.}

Privacy and Respect in Virtual and Social Gaming

^{This workstream establishes a rewards system for good behavior in virtual and gaming platforms (industry guidance paper). Determine the viability of a technical standard that enables end-users to protect their "personal identity" outside of the playing environment.}

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The initiative is global, open and inclusive, welcoming all representatives of organizations across multiple industries dedicated to identifying low risk approaches to digital identity to assist in addressing current and future governance challenges.

We welcome new participants that are interested in making cyberspace more inclusive and trusted; digital inclusion; identity; agency; security and privacy; and dignity.

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Events

Does your COVID-19 tracing app follow you forever? Privacy & Protection in a post-pandemic world

9 July 2020
3:30 PM IST | 8:00 PM Melbourne

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Previous Events

IEEE EU-DIITA Workshop on Identity, Inclusion and Agency

04 December, 2019 - Vienna, Austria

IEEE's Digital Inclusion, Identity, Trust, and Agency (DIITA) program is hosting a workshop in Vienna with a focus on identity (we are known as we wish to be known), trust (we are and feel safe in our online engagement), and agency (we have control over our data and our activities).

InDIITA Workshop

18 Jul 2019 - 19 Jul 2019

IEEE InDIITA is an Open Space Tech Workshop that utilizes “an attendee-based” participatory experience to work on the solutions needed today in the world of identity. It will bring together technologists, researchers, government regulators, academics, ethicists and other experts both from India and around the world who are committed to finding and developing solutions collaboratively.

Program Chair:

Greg Adamson, University of Melbourne, adamson@ieee.org

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