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Digital identity

Identity infrastructure as a decision system: what a credential asserts, and what it leaves out about the person named in it.

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2026

Wrappers, Not Records

The World Bank has standardised the digital wallet. Its record names the person a credential describes, and has no field for the person a decision is about.

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