e-Mongolia provides citizens with vaccination certificates, social insurance payment references, residential address registration references, and other certificates. To date, the app includes 640 services and has two million users.
The Government Digital Service awarded a contract worth as much as £9 million (US$11.8 million) to business and government consulting giant Deloitte to build a digital ID app. The service contract covers a two-year period.
The platform will be decentralized, public and non-permissioned. In the next 90 days, the city will define the architecture of the platform and decide what blockchain it will be built on.
A national system would be based on the federal government’s whole-of-government digital identity program, which is aiming to provide identity verification across a range of government services and private sector offerings.
The announcement came a bit more than six months after Apple announced it was working with a handful of states to develop digital IDs that can be stored alongside airline tickets, credit cards, movie tickets and other passes.
There has also been growing momentum for a national digital ID program in Canada. The Canadian Bankers Association recently advocated for the creation of a federated identity system, while the DIACC has published a Pan-Canadian Trust Framework in an effort to establish comprehensive standards for digital IDs within the country.
