If the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has put these two countries at the forefront of the international scene, we have learned that the second city is a digital champion. In a logic of digitizing and centralizing everything, the government launched in 2020 an application called Diia which brings together identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements, social benefits, and more. . A model that we only knew so far in China with the famous social credit.
Ukraine is the champion of digital identity with the Diia app
This had been mentioned for a long time, then precipitated by the COVID crisis, governments want to move towards digitization of everyday life by bringing together almost all services on the telephone. While the European Union had announced a test to digitize the vaccination record (see official PDF), wallet and identities in 2018, Ukraine was very quick to react with a Diia application deployed by the government there almost two years ago. Since then, the platform has continued to evolve.
Ukrainians can download Diia and store a whole lot of official information there as mentioned above, with the aim of being able to easily carry out most of the administrative procedures, which range from paying their taxes to renewing their identity papers, including the payment of his fines or the recovery of his social benefits. In all, nearly 50 services can be reached from the application and 9 official documents which have the same value as their paper counterparts. Eventually, it will soon be impossible to make an official request. Moreover, with COVID-19, the government has even announced that the payment of benefits will be conditional on the presence of a vaccination certificate. When reality catches up with Orwell…
Ukraine, therefore, posed as the champion of digitalization before the war broke out at the end of February. At the start of 2021, it already claimed more than 4.5 million active users. But taking a closer look at what is currently being done, it turns out that Poland has a mobile application similar to that of Ukraine, which was launched at the end of 2019. This Polish app displays seven digital documents and allows users to identify themselves with a digital ID card in places where a paper passport is not legally required.
In the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, citizens can use electronic passports at airports for check-in and security screening. It’s coming soon to the US thanks to Apple Wallet. In China, citizens have access to virtual identity cards integrated into a mobile application. Users can use it to identify themselves when they register in a hotel or to benefit from certain government services, with a points system that allows them to have additional rights in the event of “good behavior”. In Estonia, 70% of the population uses digital ID cards, while 99% of public services are available online.
What do you think of this transition to all-digital? Practical or disturbing?
4 Comments
Search Google for this:
The Markus Allen Show
Yes I find it disturbing. In fact, just as much as it can help find people for good, Bad People can use it find you.
Same thing being rolled out in Australia mygovid.gov.au …. very few people are aware of it and less know that their info is being linked without their permission …. anyone with a mygov account is being linked automatically !!! The problem is if you lose or break your phone, battery goes dead, or it’s out of date, then bang goes your id as well…. this is getting beyond ridiculous
This is the most disturbing technological advancement in our life time and is a slippery slope to total Authoritarian dictatorship where if a citizen makes a statement opposing the Government narrative there entire identity can be limited or even turned off leaving them with nothing.
This is a war against free humanity and we must do anything and everything we can to stop it before it happens. This is the New World Order that people have been talking about for decades come to life.
WAKE UP AND STOP THE MADNESS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE