About us

Discover who we are and how we work to promote secure, interoperable, and trusted digital identity solutions across the global ecosystem.

Vision & Mission

Unlock the full power of identity to enable people, economy and society to thrive.

We believe legal, trusted identity is the cornerstone of rights protection, social inclusion and digital economic development – and the access point to a wide range of essential public and private services.

We collaborate

We bring together private and public industry and government organisations to foster international collaboration, help advance positive ID policy, provide technical guidance and share best practice in the implementation of identity programmes.

We support

The goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
The Recommendation of the OECD Council on the Governance of Digital Identity.
The Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development Towards the Digital Age.
ID4Africa and its Identity Council.

We have global reach

Over 85% of the world’s population is covered through multiple applications by our members’ technologies

We believe in open standards

We are driving the development of international open standards (as our members have for over 50 years).
Secure Identity Alliance is an International Telecoms Union (ITU-T) A5 Organization

We adhere to a strict code of conduct

It is the Alliance’s firm belief that strict adherence to high ethical standards is key to meeting the challenges and reaching the full potential of digital identities and secure eServices, to the benefit of all stakeholders.

Policy & Technology

We help advancing positive global identity policy to protect the people while tackling todays’ biggest societal challenges such as digital inclusion and sustainability.
We address the key issues throughout the identity journey from enrolment to use case development and implementation.

Legal & Trusted Identity

Privacy & Data Protection

Identity Lifecycle Management

Interoperability & Standardization

Technologies for identification

Application & Standards

We facilitate the industry’s focus – via working groups and promotional activities on the full lifecycle of identity management, both physical and digital (registration/enrolment, validation, biometrics, credentialing, authorization, authentication, federation and decentralization).
We provide technical guidance and share best practice.

Publications

Input into other organizations' work

Conferences partnerships & Workshops

Tools & Guides

Open Standards Recommendations & Development

Join us

The Secure Identity Alliance welcomes any company – providing it meets the conditions for membership – willing to contribute to achieve the goal of the Alliance.