Mobile ID: How Digitizing Identity Documents Can Prevent Fraud and Enhance Resident Experiences

Our cell phones have become our cameras, our calendars, our maps, our calculators, our flashlights – even our method of payment for goods and services. Now they’re increasingly becoming our IDs, as physical documents such as drivers licenses are replaced by digital identification.

Mobile IDs are a convenience for the people who carry them. But they also help governments in a number of valuable ways, including fighting fraud, ensuring accessible service delivery for constituents, improving efficiencies and cutting red tape.