Trust is in short supply. People, organisations, and governments have never been more aware of the need to know what and who you can trust in the digital world.
In the real world, most of us can "feel" when a situation isn't trustworthy. We have our own subconscious policies: "I don't buy from door-to-door salesmen", "I don't walk down that street at night." Trust is important but also subjective, evolving, and hard to define.
People transact more when they trust the environment - the people, the processes, and the places. Most importantly, they need confidence in the rules and how to seek redress. Trust lowers the cost of transacting. Countries prosper where they have a "trust infrastructure".
Digital trust
The internet was built without a trust infrastructure, but that hasn't stopped it being hugely successful. However, trust is waning. Digital fraud and criminality are accelerating, and AI has become the scammer's friend. As problems rise, the burden of establishing trust lands increasingly on people and businesses who lack the skills to understand what they should and shouldn't trust digitally.
Trust and Identity Orchestration services
Governments can't make people trustworthy, but they can create an environment in which people can trust one another. The UK government is establishing a Trust Framework under the Data (Use and Access) Bill, bringing into effect the Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF).
Digital policies for trust
There is no "one size fits all" solution. How trust is established will vary from transaction to transaction, context to context, and person to person. But policies help decision-making, and Trust and Identity Orchestration (TIDO) services ensure these policies are enforced digitally.
Already, secondary legislation enables employers to check right-to-work digitally and landlords to check right-to-rent - removing burden from both parties. Orchestrating Identity is the first Orchestration Service Provider certified by Kantara under the Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework.