Europe needs decentralized digital identity infrastructure, policy paper argues
Over the past years, European nations have made significant progress in digital identity: The EU has established eIDAS 2.0, Switzerland…
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Africa PKI Consortium builds the continent’s trust layer
“If the continent is to achieve its sovereignty it needs to have control over every ingredient that is used,” said…
Mindgrove, Pinetics target biometric and identity applications with Indian-designed chips
As countries push to localize identity infrastructure, biometric systems are emerging as a key battleground for semiconductor independence. Indian fabless…
Germany launches program to bring open source maintainers into standards bodies
Tech experts who lead open source digital infrastructure projects rarely get to participate in developing technical standards, even though three-quarters…
Netherlands weighs data sovereignty concerns with Solvinity digital identity contract
In the Netherlands a government contract is placing sovereignty and national digital ID at the front of political conversation. The…
EU’s tech sovereignty plan may include an independent biometric evaluation platform
The EU should establish its own biometric evaluation and testing platform to support European authorities, regulations, and businesses, and to…
DIACC targets digital credential access for 90% of Canadians by 2031
Canada is ready “to build a world-leading digital trust infrastructure” including interoperable digital identity, according to a forward-looking paper from…
ID Campus opens in Angers to serve as European digital identity hub
ID Campus, billed as “Europe’s first location entirely dedicated to digital identity and its applications,” has been officially inaugurated in…
Taking back control? IBM launches Sovereign Core for AI workloads and cloud-native data
IBM has unveiled Sovereign Core, a software platform designed to give governments, enterprises and service providers full operational control over…
EU calls for input on open source as it looks toward tech sovereignty
The European Commission has published a public call for feedback for improving the EU open-source sector, in a bid to…
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