AIR is conducting a two-year exploration of the potential that robust digital identity systems can advance critical goals in financial services, particularly in protecting privacy, and combating money laundering and other financial crimes.

Reach out to us if you would like to be a part of this motivated and passionate community. This important work will enable the digital identification infrastructure which is not merely a technological imperative but a societal and economic necessity, underpinning inclusive growth, efficient governance, and enhanced global connectivity.


Digital Identity

ARTICLE • Advancing Digital Identity: Building Essential Infrastructure

In March 2024, AIR partnered with the Aspen Institute to convene two roundtables with a cross-section of digital identity experts. This brief summarizes the dialogue and next steps, and extends an invitation to engage with this work.

Michael Wiegand with Jo Ann Barefoot on the Barefoot Innovation Podcast

PODCAST • How to Include Everyone: The Gates Foundation’s Michael Wiegand

Michael talks about the global evolution of financial inclusion and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s ongoing efforts. Learn about digital financial inclusion, consumer protection, digital public infrastructure, and barriers to fair finance.

PODCAST • Demystifying DeFi and Web3 with Tomicah Tillemann

Tillemann, Chief Policy Officer of Haun Ventures, shares his views about the crypto winter and how the confluence of blockchain, open source and digital tokens could solve stubborn problems.

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