The Trust Alliance was established by the Australian Red Cross to lead the emergence of a useful and ethical digital identity ecosystem that empowers global citizenship and enhances trust between individuals and institutions.
If you would like to find out more about this work contact Prof. Ellie Rennie.
The World Needs an Ethical Approach to Digital Identity
The Trust Alliance was established to help people identify themselves on their own terms. It commenced with digital credentials so that organisations could deploy humanitarian workers and volunteers rapidly and safely in times of crisis. The work focused on creating trust standards that were open, inclusive, and equitable for all.
The Trust Alliance
In June 2019, a group of non-profit, academic and technology organisations came together with a common purpose – to develop an identity ecosystem that would:
- Give people better access to help when they needed it
- Enable genuine civic, social and economic participation for all
- Create greater self-agency and control for those who were vulnerable
- Provide voice to marginalised communities
- Document the undocumented
The Trust Alliance focused on producing the organisational governance and technical guidelines for how decentralised credentials should be implemented. Drawing upon a combination of open-source tools and standards, anchored in real world use cases that were led by member organisations.
