Books and Papers
Digital Identity for Development
The Quest for Justice and a Research Agenda
Authors Dr. Savita Bailur, Siliva Masiero
This article serves as editorial for the special issue “Identification in a Digital Age: Implications for Development” of Information Technology for Development. The article first proposes a framework to map the theoretical link between digital identity and human development, articulated in three dimensions linking digital identity to expected development outcomes. Second, it presents the seven papers in this collection in terms of how they problematize such a link, observing how each of them uses empirical data to increase existing knowledge on this connection and question it. Third, it leverages insights from these contributions to put forward a research agenda on digital identity and human development, suggesting possible avenues to engage with this topic and ultimately, framing digital identity as an object of ICT4D research.
Date
DOI 10.1080/02681102.2021.1859669
