With the Identity Innovation Award, IDnext wants to recognize and support new developments that are shaping the future of Digital Identity. Submissions are innovative concepts, products or project.
The submission for the Identity innovation award should be an innovative project, concept, service or product in the area of digital identity.
Submissions will be judged on
- Innovative – How innovative is the submission, e.g., technological or business model
- Success & impact – where the jury members will also consider expected future impact
- Privacy – is there a positive impact on privacy, has privacy been sufficiently considered
- End-user value – what is the value from the perspective of the end-user/citizen, also where applicable the perspective of other stakeholders will be taken into account.
The award ceremony took place at the annual IDnext event on 2 December 2024.
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The winner of the Identity Innovation Award of 2024 is:
Credo – They received the award for their Credo ecosystem which is designed with the mindset that building self-sovereign identity solutions should be easy and straightforward.
The nominees for the Identity Innovation Award 2024 were:
- Paradym: Paradym streamlines digital identity management, offering an easy-to-integrate platform to issue, verify, and manage digital credentials. With its low-code workflow builder, developer-friendly APIs, and compatibility with global standards, Paradym enables rapid setup of custom identity solutions without complex coding. Users can automate workflows, create reusable templates, and leverage Zapier integration for extensive app connectivity. Paradym’s infrastructure scales seamlessly, making it adaptable for organizations of any size.
- IAMONES: IAMONES offers an innovative platform for generative identity management, transforming Identity Access Management (IAM) and Identity Governance Administration (IGA) with natural language processing and AI. By leveraging large language models, IAMONES enables users to configure and manage access through simple, intuitive dialogue, removing the need for complex role management. It integrates identity data with cybersecurity for a more comprehensive, adaptive approach to identity security. This system minimizes costs and maximizes efficiency in modern identity governance.
- Credo: The Credo ecosystem was designed with the mindset that building self-sovereign identity solutions should be easy and straightforward. Credo allows you to reuse the same code base in different environments. There is no need to implement the same functionality multiple times. By keeping up with the latest standards, we ensure Credo is secure and interoperable.
Previous Innovation Award winners include Dutch Blockchain Coalition, eHerkenning, Ziggur, the OpenID Foundation, Asignio and DuckDuckGoose.
Criteria for the award include:
o Innovation (technological as well as business model)
o Success; how the privacy aspect is dealt with
o Added value for users and for stakeholders
o The (potential) impact of the concept, project or product.
Previous winners of the Identity Innovation Award are:
Dutch Blockchain Colation (DBC) – DBC created the Decentralised Identity Interop Profile so that decentralized solutions can communicate with each other.
DuckDuckGoose – They develop explainable AI solutions to detect deepfakes in audio-visual content. Deepfakes are hyper-realistic fake audio-visual data made and/or manipulated by AI. They seem so realistic that the unaided human eye can no longer recognize them. DuckDuckGoose leverages the power of AI to detect deepfakes in a fast, reliable, autonomous yet insightful and explainable manner. This means that the tool does not only classify a certain input as deepfake, but also explains the reasoning behind its decision. Currently, DuckDuckGoose focuses on distinguishing deepfake faces from authentic faces and is also developing multimodal audio and video deepfake detection algorithms.
Asignio – Asignio offers a more secure way to sign-in with its multi-factor authentication – synchronous dual biometrics. With their patented signature recognition technology they created synchronous dual biometrics – more secure with two biometrics at once, sign-in & live selfie or voice & live selfie.
Iovation – Iovation safeguards tens of millions of digital transactions a day, with the world’s largest and most precise database of device reputation insights and cryptographically secure multifactor authentication methods.
OpenID certification – The OpenID Foundation purposefully established a light-weight, low cost OpenID Connect certification program to help ensure that high-quality OpenID Connect implementations became the norm in the marketplace.
Meeco – provides the means for individuals to have greater control of their identities and how they are used. They can share relevant information with trusted parties in a secure way to achieve the desired outcomes.
Trulioo – provides a robust service for online verification of identities. Trulioo customers have access to over 140 data sources to verify identities 3 bilion on their value.
idBCN – is a digital identity system provided by the Barcelona City Council as a free public service. idBCN allows citizens to identify themselves remotely and securely to a number of digital services by means of the digital ID in their mobile phone.
eHerkenning – eRecognition is a Dutch e-identity trust framework that enables companies to re-use digital identities to authenticate themselves towards government organizations. Conducting business online thus becomes easier and more reliable.
Edentiti – Edentiti provides online identity verification by checking information from various online data sources, and does so under the control of the end user.
Ziggur – (Ziggur is a Dutch service that enables everybody on the worldwide web to decide what they want to happen to their online profiles & online belongings after their death. Ziggur makes sure the wishes regarding the digital inheritance of the deceased are fullfilled, thus burdening those who are left behind.
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