We already know that digital IDs will help counter populism, and illegal immigration, and crime, and benefit fraud, and terrorism, and pandemics.
But they'll help tackle poverty now as well. That's according to a report published a few days ago by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:
Digital IDs are an effective tool against poverty. A global solution is making them available to millions.I do love "making them available" in that sentence. As if the world is full of people desperately crying out for digital ID that the powers that be have been unable to supply, when the truth is literally the exact opposite of that.
The aim of the report is promoting something they call Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP), an "adaptable, modular architecture [...] that any country could customize to meet its specific needs."
For the last few years, MOSIP has been trialed in nine different countries across Africa and Asia, with over 90 million people signing up, the report calls it a powerful example of how low- and middle-income countries can harness open-source technology to improve lives and accelerate development.













Comment: About time. Why should the conspirators and their minions still be able to trade on their access to government intel?