ID2020: A ‘UNIQUE CONVERGENCE of FIVE (5) TRENDS’ provides an unprecedented opportunity to make a coordinated, concerted push to provide digital ID to everyone. ‘Growing like the pains of a woman in labor.’ The ‘Baby’ is about to be born. Revelation 12.

Growing Political Willpower:

In September 2015, all United Nations member states adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, including their commitment to “provide legal identity for all, including birth registration” by 2030.

Rising Global Connectivity:

The rapid proliferation of smart devices globally, combined with ever-increasing computing power and rapidly expanding broadband coverage (5G), enables new methods of registration and facilitates ongoing interaction between individuals and their identity data.

Emerging Technologies:

New technologies, including blockchain, when used in conjunction with long-proven technologies, such as biometrics, now make it possible for all people to have access to a safe, verifiable, and persistent form of identity.

Global Calls for a New Model of ID:

Consumers are demanding both a more seamless digital experience and increased privacy. In April 2016, the European Parliament approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is designed to improve the security and privacy of personal data in the EU and which requires that the control of personal data rests with the individual. Companies are increasingly recognizing that user-owned and controlled identity could offer benefits to their bottom-line.

Fairness and Equality for All, a ‘Fundamental Human Right’:

Everyone should have access to a digital ID that enables them to prove who they are across institutional and international borders and across time, while giving them control over how their personal information is collected, used, and shared. The ability to prove who you are is a fundamental and universal human right. Because we live in a digital era, we need a trusted and reliable way to do that both in the physical world and online. (Physical ‘mark’ or digital ‘number’)

Revelation 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.