Designing Digital Identity Infrastructure: A Taxonomy of Strategic Governance Choices

AMARD, Alexandre; HARTWICH, Eduard; HÖß, Alexandra; RIEGER, Alexander; ROTH, Tamara; FRIDGEN, Gilbert

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Designing Digital Identity Infrastructure: A Taxonomy of Strategic Governance Choices

AMARD, Alexandre; HARTWICH, Eduard; HÖß, Alexandra et al.

2024 • In Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Keywords :

Digital identity; digital infrastructure; digital government; eGovernment; governance

Abstract :

[en] Governments around the world increasingly deploy digital identity infrastructure. These initiatives are considered a fundamental building block for their citizens to reap the benefits of digitalization and take part in the digital society and economy. But this outcome is not guaranteed: it considerably hinges upon a range of strategic governance decision domains that institutional actors must act on when designing digital identity infrastructures. To get a better understanding of how governments can approach this critical design aspect, we propose a taxonomy of strategic governance choices for digital identity infrastructures. This taxonomy is the outcome of an analysis of 13 government-led digital identity infrastructures and 12 expert interviews. This paper contributes to the digital government literature by setting a foundation for further research and theory-building on digital identity infrastructure. Practitioners can use the taxonomy to develop governance strategies for their own digital identity infrastructure.

Research center :

Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > FINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-organizational Digital Transformations

Disciplines :

Computer science
Management information systems
Political science, public administration & international relations

Author, co-author :

AMARD, Alexandre ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX

HARTWICH, Eduard ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX

HÖß, Alexandra ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX

RIEGER, Alexander ; University of Luxembourg

ROTH, Tamara ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust > FINATRAX > Team Gilbert FRIDGEN

FRIDGEN, Gilbert ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX

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Language :

English

Title :

Designing Digital Identity Infrastructure: A Taxonomy of Strategic Governance Choices

Publication date :

January 2024

Event name :

HICSS 2024

Event date :

03.01.2024

Audience :

International

Journal title :

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

ISSN :

1530-1605

Publisher :

IEEE Computer Society

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Focus Area :

Security, Reliability and Trust

Development Goals :

16. Peace, justice and strong institutions

Funders :

Paypal
FNR - Fonds National de la Recherche
Luxembourg Ministry for Digitalization

Funding text :

This research was supported in part by Luxembourg’s Ministry for Digitalisation, PayPal and the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), Luxembourg (P17/IS/13342933/ PayPalFNR/Chair in DFS/Gilbert Fridgen) and the FNR in the FiReSpARX (grant reference 14783405) project. For the purpose of open access, and in fulfilment of the obligations arising from the grant agreement, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

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