Government
Civic identity that citizens carry with them.
Issue national IDs, benefits, licenses, and permits as verifiable credentials. Citizens present them anywhere. Agencies verify without a call to the source.
In practice
See the credentials in this industry.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Passport
Subject
Alex Larsen
- Nationality
- Bhutan
- Date of birth
- ••••••
- Passport no.
- •• 1842
- Expires
- 2030-04-18
Signed · SD-JWT VCdid:web:iden2
Department of Transport
Driver's License
Subject
Alex Larsen
- Class
- B
- Date of birth
- ••••••
- License no.
- •• 7720
- Expires
- 2028-11-02
Signed · SD-JWT VCdid:web:iden2
Ministry of Interior
National ID
Subject
Alex Larsen
- Nationality
- Bhutan
- Date of birth
- ••••••
- ID number
- •• 4291
- Issued
- 2025-04-18
Signed · SD-JWT VCdid:web:iden2
Industry problem
Every agency keeps its own identity, and none of them can trust the others.
Today's civic identity is a stack of silos. Each ministry, benefit program, and licensing desk rebuilds the same check, then cannot reuse anyone else's.
- No shared credential, so every agency re-collects the same identity from scratch.
- Registries do not speak to one another. A proof issued by one ministry is useless at the next window.
- The same person is a different record in each system, and those records drift apart.
- A change of address, status, or revocation in one silo never reaches the others.
- Citizens carry paper, PDFs, and screenshots that cannot be checked at the source.
- Cross-agency checks wait on phone calls, faxes, and manual lookups.
- Fraud slips through the gaps between systems that cannot see each other.
- Each program is locked to its own vendor, so identity cannot travel with the citizen.
- Rural and offline windows cannot check a credential that lives in another agency's database.
Real use cases
How a shared civic credential is used.
National identity
A citizen presents a signed national ID instead of a physical card or a photocopy.
Benefits eligibility
Prove income, household, and residency for support without opening the full record.
Licensing
Driver, professional, and trade licenses issued once and checked at the counter.
Permits
Building, operating, and business permits any agency can verify without a call back.
Insurance entitlement
Prove coverage and benefits at the point of care without opening the full policy file.
Civil registry
Birth, marriage, and residency certificates presented as signed credentials, not sealed paper.
Tax and residency
Prove tax status and residency without resubmitting the same documents each year.
Border and travel
A visa or travel credential a border post can check, online or offline.
Housing and municipal services
Qualify for social housing, utilities, and local services with one presentation.
Age-restricted services
Prove age to a regulated service without revealing the rest of the identity record.
Emergency relief
Disburse disaster benefits against a verified identity when registries are unreachable.
Public employment
Onboard civil servants across ministries without a new identity check each time.
Outcomes
What a government is buying.
Lower cost to serve
One check replaces a verification at every window.
Economic benefit
Less leakage
Benefits are paid against a signed, revocable credential.
Program integrity
Better citizen experience
People present once, instead of repeating the same documents.
Service delivery
Faster time to benefit
Eligibility is settled at the counter, not weeks later.
Access
Less administrative load
Ministries stop rebuilding the same identity check.
Operating cost
Fewer in-person visits
A remote presentation can complete a step that used to require a queue.
Citizen experience
Rural reach
Services still verify where connectivity is poor.
Inclusion
Less oversharing
Citizens prove a fact without opening the full record.
Privacy
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