Public-interest infrastructure for cross-border digital identity with community ownership
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Brazil, South America
WS05255
People increasingly need trusted identity across migration, finance, education, health, and employment systems. The challenge is preventing fragmented credentials, exclusion, surveillance, and corporate dependency. Affected communities must have meaningful control over data, revenue, deployment decisions, and the right to refuse harmful applications. The research opportunity is to define measurable success criteria, test the approach in realistic settings, identify failure modes, and create a pathway from prototype to accountable deployment.