Projects, Research & White Papers
With our hands on approach we aim to deliver tangible outcomes from any project we work on. Below are the outputs of some of the projects we have delivered which have aimed to solve some of the most difficult use cases in identity.
The papers range from age verification through to other aspects of identity such as some of the challenges with the “thin file” demographic, attribute exchanges and how social sign in and social data is perceived in the context of identity.
We have a wide range of skills across the team and our associate network, including research and project management, these skills combined with knowledge of identity, security and privacy make us specialists in our field.
If you have a project you would like to talk to us about, do not hesitate to get in touch.
The value of digital identity to the financial service sector
This report focuses on the challenges faced in enabling trusted online transactions within the financial service sector, and explores whether digital identity reuse offers a solution.
Authors: Bryn Robinson-Morgan, Innovate Identity
UK Private Sector Needs for Identity Assurance
This document reports in the second phase which was much wider reaching than the first, and included feedback from 80 organisations. Questions were asked generally about the market, and specifically about standards, certification, privacy and brand, as well as understanding the appetite to work collaboratively to solve some of the issues around identity.
Authors: Emma Lindley, Innovate Identity
OIX Shared Signals Proof of Concept
This Alpha project tested whether Signals (which adhere to the principle of minimal personal data sharing) can be shared between IdPs, via a ‘signal manager’, that IdPs have sufficient trust in, and are of sufficient quality to match and take action on.
Authors: Andi Hindle, Hindle Consulting and Emma Lindley, Innovate Identity
Creating a Digital Identity in Jersey
States of Jersey commissioned an OIX Discovery project to explore how the knowledge, expertise and components of one of these models, the UK’s GOV.UK Verify identity assurance scheme, could be leveraged to provide a cost-effective solution to meet Jersey’s requirements.
Authors: Rob Laurence, Innovate Identity
Could Digital Identities Help Transform Consumer Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Saving?
This paper, sponsored by the Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA), reports the findings of an OIX Discovery Project to explore the use of a digital identity scheme in the savings sector. The project principally explored users’ perceptions and expectations about digital identities and whether they could be used to enable greater consumer awareness and change behaviour towards saving.
Authors: Rob Laurence, Innovate Identity
Achieve Compliance and Increase Revenue from Mobile
In this whitepaper put together with Mitek, we discuss the growth of mobile, the connected customer and how to manage risk effectively to ensure a seamless customer experience.
Authors: Emma Lindley, Innovate Identity
Investigating the Challenges in Digital Identity
Digital “inclusion” and “uptake” are two of the most interesting, and possibly biggest challenges in the adoption of a ubiquitous digital identity. Are critical questions in this context are:
How do we increase the amount of people that can gain acceptance and access to a digital identity, even in the most difficult to reach demographics in the UK? Secondly how do we ensure they understand and want to use this identity across more than service, gaining maximum benefit for all?
This small scale project focuses on these two challenges.
Authors: Emma Lindley Innovate Identity and Gary Simpson South Yorkshire Credit Union
Can Attribute Provision Together with Identity Assurance, Transform Local Government Services?
In this white paper we report on the learnings of the Warwickshire County Council Discovery Project that considered how attribute provision can be enabled through the identity assurance infrastructure. This is a practical way to achieve what has long been talked about, a digital infrastructure that enables data to flow freely, cheaply, securely and with the permission of the service user, to underpin the delivery of services online.
Authors: Ian Litton, Warwickshire County Council and Rob Laurence, Innovate Identity
Towards an Architecture for a Digital Blue Badge Service
In this Alpha project we took a typical local government service – applying for a disabled parking badge (a Blue Badge) – and demonstrated how it could be radically transformed from a process taking several weeks to one taking a few minutes.
This was achieved through attribute exchange, defined as “the online, real-time exchange of data specific to the transaction in hand, with the user present and with their full knowledge and permission”.
Authors: Ian Litton, Warwickshire County Council and Rob Laurence, Innovate Identity
A Technical Design for a Blue Badge Digital Service
This technical paper should be read in conjunction with the white paper: Towards an Architecture for a Digital Blue Badge Service. It describes the technical solution that was designed and built for an attribute exchange hub, as part of an OIX Alpha project, to support the digital delivery of a complex local government service.
Authors: Steven Gevers, Verizon and Rob Laurence, Innovate Identity
Discovering the Needs for UK Identity Assurance
The UK currently has a wide variety of online identity requirements, sector specific standards and point solutions. In order to understand the overall UK market needs better, the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) has been asked by its members to run a discovery exercise during 2015 to understand what the private sector needs are for digital identity services, how these relate to central government needs, and what questions would arise when considering the potential development of sector-based and cross-sector approaches to identity assurance.
Authors: Emma Lindley, Innovate Identity
Bridging the “Digital Divide”
This project looks at the challenges with one of the hardest demographics to address, those who potentially do not have traditional forms of identity documentation (e.g. passports and driving licences) or digital footprints (e.g. bank accounts or electronic records on the credit referencing data) and therefore find it harder to gain access to transcations which require a higher level of identity verification or access methods of electronic payment. This small-scale test was developed in the context of how we might address the “digital divide”.
Authors: Gary Simpson, South Yorkshire Credit Union (Innovate Identity supported the authoring of this report)
Social Networks and Digital Identity
This white paper summarises the findings from an investigative project on the subject of internet life verification (ILV), the process by which an individual’s identity can be verified through analysis of their online activity taken from social networks.
Authors: Nicola Turnill and Emma Partridge, Blue Marble Research (Innovate Identity were the project coordinators for this project and supported the authors of this report)
Single Identity for Central and Local Government
Over the past few years a diverse range of solutions to identity assurance have been implemented by local authorities. The purpose of this project is to examine how one such local authority’s identity assurance scheme could coexist and interoperate with the UK Government’s Identity Assurance (IDA) Scheme for central government services, potentially leading to a single, standards-based approach to identity assurance across all public services to the citizen.
This project was nominated for and won two awards in the Real IT Awards 2014.
Authors: Rob Laurence, Innovate Identity and Ian Litton, Warwickshire County Council
Age Verification
This paper looks at the difficult and sometimes contentious issue of online age verification. It examines two industry view points, one which has implemented online age verification and one that has not. By making a comparison between the attitudes of these industries to age verification it draws conclusions about the merchant view both before and after implementation.
The report also casts a wider net into Europe giving a high level overview on methods in other countries.