The Sustainable Development Goals and ‘legal identity for all’: ‘First, do no harm’

Manby, Bronwen

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105343

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“…Nevertheless, as Manby (2021) notes, the organizations that shape digital identity research and policy sometimes have only limited enforcing power to ensure that these Trustworthy ID principles are indeed implemented in specific country contexts. For example, the World Bank, a major funder of Nigeria’s national ID, has made several recommendations (some listed in the section below) on how to improve the trustworthiness of the system.…”

Section: Updated Id Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Universities were thereby ordered to reopen, and students were urged to return to their campuses, in a bid to drain the fervor of the protests. Another facet of the institutional mistrust and societal tensions around digital identity projects stems from the perceived legality of the actions of implementers and administrators of the project (Manby, 2021). In the UN SDG 16.9 plan to "provide legal identity for all" for instance, the rule of law and legality is implied as core tenets of any identity regime.…”

Section: Updated Id Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mistrust of government within authoritarian states hindering user acceptance and adoption of digital IDs in Africa: The Nigerian context

Okunoye

2022

Data & Policy

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Nigeria commenced its national foundational digital identity project in 2007 and had enrolled 60 million people by July 2021. The project, led by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), seeks to unify the country’s public and private functional identity databases, and aims to improve government services and national security. Although the enrolment process had encountered initial challenges such as the absence of enrolment centers in some communities across the country, enrolment for the biometric ID had proceeded without any significant public objection to its objectives. Following the EndSARS protests of October 2020, where youths protesting police violence and perceived poor governance were shot at by government security forces and protesters placed under surveillance, the government announced an updated national identity policy mandating citizens link their National Identity Number (NIN) with their SIM card information. For the first time, significant pockets of resistance arose against the national ID project by sections of the public who perceived the EndSARS violence as signaling a change in government behavior, and the updated ID policy as a mechanism for empowering government surveillance and authoritarianism. The resistance to the ID project marked a shift in public perception which threatens its future. This paper argues that mistrust in government data collection projects grows when data collection is perceived to be increasing government power to the detriment of human rights and freedom. It also puts forward a proposal on how to restore trust within the low-trust environment in Nigeria including the passage of a data protection law and amendments to the NIMC Act and Policies/Regulations, establishing Federated identity providers which give choices to end-users, and delinking the NIN from functional identity databases.

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Section: Updated Id Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Updated Id Policymentioning

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Mistrust of government within authoritarian states hindering user acceptance and adoption of digital IDs in Africa: The Nigerian context

Okunoye

2022

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“…Located in Africa, research conducted by Bronwen Manby (Senior policy fellow and guest teacher, London School of Economics and Political Science) found that identity documents are the key to the growth of a country. However, unfortunately in this country, there are still insufficient identity documents, even though these are needed to access public services, thus creating significant social exclusivity, thus advocacy is needed for a population identification system policy that needs to be completely replaced (Manby, 2021).…”

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative Governance on Registration and Publication of Population Administration in the Baduy Tribe, Kanekes Village

2022

Central European Management Journal

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Indonesia has more than 270 million inhabitants, but with the characteristics of a diverse society and accessibility that is still difficul to reach some areas, causing problem such as people who are vulnerable to population administration. In fact, population administration activites, including documents issued, have a big role and benefit for citizents of the country. One example of the problems found in Kanekes Village, Lebak Regency, Banten. The are is inhabidted by indigenous Baduy people, although the Outer Baduy are more open, but the documents related to ther population administration are not complete. This situation cannot be avoided by the government, based on Permendagri No.96/2016, it has become the government/s obligation to carry out the services. Although this activity is delegated to the local government, the problems have not been successfully resolved. Finally, with the research conducted using qualitative method, the researcher found that the government had collaborated to solve the existing problems. Collaborative governance is often used as a solution when the government is unable to solve existing public problem. However, tt's not a penta helix collaboration in which academic, business, community, government, and media are involved. Of the 5 elements, the business has not been invoved but the other 4 elements have been involved and play a role according to their parts. This study also finds out how important the community element is in population administration services for vulnerable communities, especially from the approach, as well as academics whose role is to contribute their knowledge, Overall this collaboration is a success, with over then 2.000 documents released.

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“…The Access Now document is particularly concerned about the routine deployment of digital identity systems in less developed economies at a time when they have been widely questioned and opposed in other countries (Bennett and Lyon, 2008; Lyon, 2009; Whitley et al, 2014). Moreover, their de facto mandatory use in many circumstances risks excluding those who are already vulnerable, such as those unable to access supporting identification documents to prove their identity or who have limited access to digital technologies (Khera, 2019; Rao, 2019; Manby, 2021; Martin and Taylor, 2021) and thus the benefits, services, and rights they function as gatekeepers for. This highlights how digital identification technologies can “amplify’ existing vulnerabilities.…”

Section: Three Digital Identity Documentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the sociopolitical configurations of digital identity principles

Whitley

Schoemaker

2022

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Digital identity systems are not devised for their own sake, rather they are developed by institutions as part of their pursuit of specific goals—such as economic, social, and developmental outcomes through enabling individual rights and facilitating access to basic services and entitlements. A growing number of organizations and institutions are advancing specific principles, frameworks, and “imaginaries” of what “good” digital identity looks like—yet it is often not clear how much influence they have or what their underlying worldview is to those designing, developing, and deploying these systems. This paper introduces sociopolitical configurations as a means of studying these underlying worldviews. Sociopolitical configurations combine elements from technological frames, expectations, and imaginations as well as developmental discourses to provide a basis for critically examining three key documents in this space.

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The Sustainable Development Goals and ‘legal identity for all’: ‘First, do no harm’

Cited by 23 publications

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Mistrust of government within authoritarian states hindering user acceptance and adoption of digital IDs in Africa: The Nigerian context

Mistrust of government within authoritarian states hindering user acceptance and adoption of digital IDs in Africa: The Nigerian context

Collaborative Governance on Registration and Publication of Population Administration in the Baduy Tribe, Kanekes Village

On the sociopolitical configurations of digital identity principles

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