Skip to main content

Government Services Drive Digital Identity Growth

Digital identity is a concept that is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly aligned with allied areas, such as security, privacy, and management of identity-related data. Within the government sector, this emerging technology has significant upside potential for growth.

According to the latest worldwide market study by Juniper Research, the number of users of digital identity documents globally will exceed 6.5 billion by 2026 -- that's up from 4.2 billion in 2022.

This expansion of over 50 percent has been accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic and reflects the growing importance of digital identity in sectors such as government services.

Digital Identity Market Development

According to the Juniper assessment, a digital identity document is a digital representation of a physical identity document.

The new research found that ease and equality of access are critical factors for the use of digital identity in government services.

Juniper analysts recommend that governments partner with digital identity vendors with diverse identity datasets, to ensure an inclusive digital transformation in eGovernment services. 

The market study also found that digital identity cards, where digital details are loaded onto an identity card, will be used by over 4 billion people globally in 2026 -- that's up from 2.5 billion in 2022.

This ongoing digitization is a prerequisite for many digital initiatives within eGovernment, and will allow significant digital enablement to evolve over the next five years.

"Identity cards have been controversial in some countries due to privacy concerns, but they are a well-established mechanism for digitizing identity practices," said Damla Satat, industry analyst at Juniper Research.

Juniper analysts believe that if third-party access is governed correctly, identity cards can be at the center of the digital identity market, but they need to be backed by secure business processes.

The research found that while eCommerce fraud has been rife, government services must not be ignored from a verification perspective.

As government-issued documents are critical to digital identity processes, any compromise of these secure documents is very risky.

Therefore, governments issuing digital identity documents must work with verification vendors who offer a variety of different validation scenarios across use cases -- or they will fail to secure this high-risk fraud challenge.

Outlook for Digital Identity Applications Growth

That said, I believe wider adoption of identity networks requires omnichannel support, it is facilitated by the re-use of identity verification and authentication to add assurance to online transactions.

The digital identity landscape has multiple interwoven elements bridging privacy or security and usability aspects contained in a digital identity solution. These different elements shape the trends and illustrate where the identity offerings are maturing in the market.

Identity is increasingly viewed as an ecosystem rather than an end product. Therefore, new identity systems will heavily depend on both the foundations and the technology linked to process layers.

At the core of these systems will be user experience and simplicity or convenience of use. Their success may also depend on how different components are integrated within an all-in-one identity solution.

Popular posts from this blog

Digital Talent Demand Exceeds Supply in Asia-Pac

Even the savviest CEO's desire for a digital transformation advantage has to face the global market reality -- there simply isn't enough skilled and experienced talent available to meet demand. According to the latest market study by IDC, around 60-80 percent of Asia-Pacific (AP) organizations find it "difficult" or "extremely difficult" to fill many IT roles -- including cybersecurity, software development, and data insight professionals. Major consequences of the skills shortage are increased workload on remaining digital business and IT employees, increased security risks, and loss of "hard-to-replace" critical transformation knowledge. Digital Business Talent Market Development Although big tech companies' layoffs are making headlines, they are not representative of the overall global marketplace. Ongoing difficulty to fill key practitioner vacancies is still among the top issues faced by leaders across industries. "Skills are difficul

Mobile Device Market Still Awaiting Recovery

The mobile devices market has experienced three years of unpredictable demand. The global pandemic, geopolitical pressures, supply chain issues, and macroeconomic headwinds have hindered the sector's consistent growth potential. This extremely challenging environment has dramatically affected both demand and supply chains. It has led to subsequent inflationary pressures, leading to a worsening global cost of living crisis suppressing growth and confidence in the sector. In tandem, mobile device industry stakeholders have become more cautious triggering market uncertainties. Mobile Device Market Development Operating under such a backdrop, the development of mobile device ecosystems and vendor landscapes have been impacted severely. Many of these market pressures persisted throughout 2022 and now into 2023, borne chiefly by the smartphone market. According to the latest worldwide market study by ABI Research, worldwide smartphone shipments in 2022 declined 9.6 percent Year-over-Year

How Cloud Fuels Digital Business Transformation

Across the globe, many CEOs invested in initiatives to expand their digital offerings. User experience enhancements that are enabled by business technology were a priority in many industries. Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 21.7 percent to a total of $597.3 billion in 2023 -- that's up from $491 billion in 2022, according to the latest market study by Gartner. Cloud computing is driving the next phase of digital transformation, as organizations pursue disruption through technologies like generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Web3, and enterprise Metaverse. Public Cloud Computing Market Development "Hyperscale cloud providers are driving the cloud agenda," said Sid Nag, vice president at Gartner . Organizations view cloud computing as a highly strategic platform for digital transformation initiatives, which requires providers to offer new capabilities as the competition for digital business escalates. "For example, generativ