Social challenges
The social challenges surrounding the digital identity system involve making it easier, more reliable and more privacy-friendly to do business digitally. Access to digital services in the public and semi-public sectors must be guaranteed. Provisions must allow you to grant someone else power of attorney or have them represent you if you are unwilling, unable and/or not allowed to act yourself. There is also a need and a necessity for a wallet that allows Dutch citizens to digitally access service-relevant personal data from a trusted source in both public and private services.
Results achieved by 2023
- The Digital Government Act (in Dutch, Wet digital overhead or Wdo) is implemented and stipulates that Dutch citizens and businesses must be able to securely and reliably log in to public or semi-public sector organisations. Under the Wdo, people must have a choice of login method.
- DigiD is widely used and enjoys a high level of user satisfaction.
- The first version of the architecture for the sample wallet has been published.
- From NL, the negotiations on the European Digital Identity Framework (eIDAS revision) were initiated on important points for NL.
- A demo version of the NL sample wallet is available (in Dutch).
- The Netherlands is a leading country when it comes to public, private and scientific developments in digital identity (Yivi, MedMij, Datakeeper, Mobiel Rijbewijs, Vastgoed wallets, vID, MijnGegevens, QTSP adoption).
Goals & indicators
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| 1. The system for access to digital government services will be expanded to enable private parties to provide user verification services while maintaining citizen privacy. Facilities for authorisation and representation are being further developed and implemented. The government will also provide a public login tool for the Tax and Customs Administration |
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| 2. Citizens can rely on service providers requesting credentials at an appropriate assurance level to do business securely and reliably, both publicly and privately. |
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| 3. The Dutch population has the option to use an ID wallet safely and in a privacy-friendly, accessible and reliable way, making it easier to do business digitally. |
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What are our forthcoming actions?
To find out the goals we are setting for the upcoming year to provide a high-quality identity system, see priority 3.2 actions.
