The circumstances we currently find ourselves in with COVID-19 are certainly unprecedented. Social distancing and stay-at-home mean that transactions that could traditionally be face to face are now no longer possible. From shopping to undertaking legal transactions. From applying for bene [...]

For those of you unaware of LIGHTest, OIX was one of 14 partners of the consortium operating in nine European countries. LIGHTest was funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and aimed to build a global trust infrastructure where arbitrary authorities could publish their trust information. [...]

A Blueprint for International Oversight of the Digital Identity Market In the first of these blogs, we looked at the recommendations for the UK set out in the new report we prepared for OIX; [...]

The goal laid down in today’s budget is to create a Digital Identity market that allows users to prove who they are digitally, without the need for paper. It’s no surprise that this is cited to boost the digital economy; in fact, it will boost the economy as a whole. The OIX paper “The Economics of Identity” called out a £3.3 billion cost that the use of Digital identity could save, let alone the [...]

The Trusted Environments Alpha Project is progressing well with three workshops and a kickoff having already taken place. The workshops are covering three of the deliverables: 1. Agreeing a base set of implementation standards 2. Meta data mod [...]

Economics of Identity: The Road to 2020 Following Up: Further information regarding the Proposed Working Groups Following the Economics of Identity Conference in collaboration with techUK, four working groups are now in the process of being set up: [...]

Markets are complex, with many moving parts and participants of various types. The Digital Identity market is no exception. Maintaining order in such complex systems almost always requires oversight of some type, and as a result, market oversight organisations are commonplace. Whatever the [...]

On the eve of the OIX Economics of Identity conference next Tuesday, OIX is pleased to announce that Nick Mothershaw has been appointed Chief Executive of the Open Identity Exchange. Nick joined OIX back in November to initially help define and kick off OIX’s new strategy for 2020 and beyon [...]

Thanks to all who voted to elect a general member and their alternate who will represent you on the Open Identity Exchange Board of Directors. I am pleased to announce the election of Jim Lound as the 2019 General Member Represen [...]

The identity landscape has changed significantly in recent years. From an OIX point of view, the changes that have taken place from the Economics of Identity meeting last May to next month’s Economics of Identity event on 11 February have been the most significant in years. Firstly, Governm [...]