Identity systems must work for the disconnected

Digital identity systems exclude 2.7 billion people who don’t have smartphones. Offline attestations and peer-signed credentials must serve the disconnected.

Opinion by: Nanak Nihal Singh Khalsa, co-founder of Holonym Foundation

More often than not, in the quest for the advancement of humankind and the betterment of human life, humanity has created more problems than it can solve. 

It’s a cycle of unintended consequences that can be traced back to our beginnings. The cave dwellers created weapons to aid hunting and food gathering, only for those weapons to become beacons of conflict and war. The same cycle repeats itself in a much different situation, but with similar repercussions if allowed to grow and fester.

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