The World In 2030

This is a fresh authoritative view of the key challenges and opportunities for next decade. New foresights are being added regularly throughout 2020.

Bringing together another unique combination of views from multiple discussions with informed people all over the world, this collection of foresights provides a unique view of the next ten years. It is again helping to challenge assumptions, provoke dialogue and initiate major innovation and action.

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Foresights

Foresight

Better Batteries

New solid-state batteries offer safer, higher performance than existing options…

New solid-state batteries offer safer, higher performance than existing options and become viable options for use across multiple sectors. Competitive…

New solid-state batteries offer safer, higher performance than existing options and become viable options for use across multiple sectors. Competitive pricing and proactive policymaking accelerate global uptake. Context Battery development…

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Broader Decision Making

As the world faces complex future challenges, multi-party communities are…

As the world faces complex future challenges, multi-party communities are themselves expanding and fragmenting. New approaches to broader decision-making gain…

As the world faces complex future challenges, multi-party communities are themselves expanding and fragmenting. New approaches to broader decision-making gain traction. Context It is increasingly apparent that the big…

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Data Provenance

Although the ability to trust data is fundamental for economic…

Although the ability to trust data is fundamental for economic and commercial activity, technology is exploding the scale and scope…

Although the ability to trust data is fundamental for economic and commercial activity, technology is exploding the scale and scope of the inauthentic. Demonstrating data provenance becomes a prerequisite to…

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Data Taxation

Digital business models make it almost impossible to pin down…

Digital business models make it almost impossible to pin down where multinationals make money and where they pay tax. Regulators…

Digital business models make it almost impossible to pin down where multinationals make money and where they pay tax. Regulators use new taxes to ensure organisations are more accountable for…

Digital business models make it almost impossible to pin down where multinationals make money and where they pay tax. Regulators use new taxes to ensure organisations are more accountable for the data they own or access. Adam Smith said that…

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Electric Aviation

As the pressure to decarbonise aviation builds, using electric planes…

As the pressure to decarbonise aviation builds, using electric planes for short and medium-haul flights gathers support. Although some technological…

As the pressure to decarbonise aviation builds, using electric planes for short and medium-haul flights gathers support. Although some technological challenges are significant, investment and regulation align to accelerate development.…

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Future of Work

The Challenge Shifts such as technological progress, globalisation, an increasingly…

The Challenge Shifts such as technological progress, globalisation, an increasingly ageing population and climate change are revolutionising how and where…

The Challenge Shifts such as technological progress, globalisation, an increasingly ageing population and climate change are revolutionising how and where we work. For some this offers unparalleled opportunity, bringing stability,…

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Hidden Organisations of Influence

The growth in globally influential, yet unaccountable, organisations that are…

The growth in globally influential, yet unaccountable, organisations that are able to undertake surveillance, steer agendas and shape government policy…

The growth in globally influential, yet unaccountable, organisations that are able to undertake surveillance, steer agendas and shape government policy has wider impact. Context In theory it has never…

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Hospitals of the Future

As physical and virtual trends align with digital delivery and…

As physical and virtual trends align with digital delivery and early prevention, there will be more change in hospitals by…

As physical and virtual trends align with digital delivery and early prevention, there will be more change in hospitals by 2030 than has occurred in the last 30 years. Context…

As physical and virtual trends align with digital delivery and early prevention, there will be more change in hospitals by 2030 than has occurred in the last 30 years. Context As healthcare needs and systems around the world evolve,…

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Migrating Diseases

With 2oC of global warming probable and 4oC possible, health…

With 2oC of global warming probable and 4oC possible, health systems struggle to address the growing impact of climate change.…

With 2oC of global warming probable and 4oC possible, health systems struggle to address the growing impact of climate change. The increased spread of vector-borne diseases joins poor air quality…

With 2oC of global warming probable and 4oC possible, health systems struggle to address the growing impact of climate change. The increased spread of vector-borne diseases joins poor air quality as a major public health threat. Although smoke from…

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Moving Water

While some regions gain from better water management, much of…

While some regions gain from better water management, much of the world’s population increasingly depend on water moved from one…

While some regions gain from better water management, much of the world’s population increasingly depend on water moved from one river basin to another. New options are explored to achieve…

While some regions gain from better water management, much of the world’s population increasingly depend on water moved from one river basin to another. New options are explored to achieve this economically and with reduced socio-environmental damage. CONTEXT Since…

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Peak Soil

Soil is fundamental, fragile and finite. It impacts everything from…

Soil is fundamental, fragile and finite. It impacts everything from food and health to conflict and migration. Deeper understanding of…

Soil is fundamental, fragile and finite. It impacts everything from food and health to conflict and migration. Deeper understanding of its degradation raises the significance of soil to equal that…

Soil is fundamental, fragile and finite. It impacts everything from food and health to conflict and migration. Deeper understanding of its degradation raises the significance of soil to equal that of climate change and biodiversity loss. The Problem We know…

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Porous Organisations

Increasing competition for talent forces organisations to be open and…

Increasing competition for talent forces organisations to be open and permeable: Building, maintaining and retaining corporate know-how is a pivotal…

Increasing competition for talent forces organisations to be open and permeable: Building, maintaining and retaining corporate know-how is a pivotal challenge but so is attracting and curating flexible, independent workers.…

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Proof of Immunity and the Demise of Privacy

Public concerns about health security override worries about privacy. Governments…

Public concerns about health security override worries about privacy. Governments integrate immunity and health data with national identities facilitated by…

Public concerns about health security override worries about privacy. Governments integrate immunity and health data with national identities facilitated by digital identity platforms. Insufficient regulatory control risks the possibility of…

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Restoring Earth

Restoring Earth Long-term commitments but short-term action fails to prevent…

Restoring Earth Long-term commitments but short-term action fails to prevent the spiral towards catastrophic climate change and the continued collapse…

Restoring Earth Long-term commitments but short-term action fails to prevent the spiral towards catastrophic climate change and the continued collapse of biodiversity. As reality bites so does the pressure for…

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The UK in 2030

A more diverse, less influential, but still growing country tacking the…

A more diverse, less influential, but still growing country tacking the challenges of more inequality and devolution but leading in several key areas…

A more diverse, less influential, but still growing country tacking the challenges of more inequality and devolution but leading in several key areas Looking Ahead At a time when there is much…

A more diverse, less influential, but still growing country tacking the challenges of more inequality and devolution but leading in several key areas Looking Ahead At a time when there is much speculation on what the next twelve months may bring, some…

Presentations

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Future of autonomous vehicles initial perspective

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Future of digital identity initial perspective

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Future of Digital Identity Programme summary

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Future of education project overview

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Future of value of data interim summary spanish 2018 esp

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Future value of data Final report

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La Valeur Future Des Données – PROJET DE RÉSUMÉ 15…

La Valeur Future Des Données – PROJET DE RÉSUMÉ 15 Dec 2018

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RCA CERN Grand Challenge

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The Future of Asthma Care

. Often hidden by many, asthma is a set of…

. Often hidden by many, asthma is a set of chronic conditions that will, some believe, impact around 1bn of…

. Often hidden by many, asthma is a set of chronic conditions that will, some believe, impact around 1bn of us by the end of the decade. It will see…

. Often hidden by many, asthma is a set of chronic conditions that will, some believe, impact around 1bn of us by the end of the decade. It will see new diagnostics, new treatments as well as gain new social…

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The future of patient data the danish perspective – infographic

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Understanding uncertainty RCA

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Valor futuro de los datos informe final – resumen del…

Valor futuro de los datos informe final – resumen del proyecto 15 Dec 2018

Insights

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Assertion of My Digital Rights

A DI Bill of Rights is already demanded by many. How this is built, by who, what it includes, and critically, how it is enforced, will be hotly contested.

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Attributes not Digital ID

Users give permission for a third party to access the appropriate attribute mix required to complete a given exchange. ID may/may not feature.

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Automated Freight

The significant automation of expressway trucks is of huge commercial interest. It will transform long-haul journeys and so is the principal focus for regulation and trials across all levels of AV.

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Balanced Proof of Identification

Digital users become more demanding about ensuring they ‘get as well as they give’ with regard to verification of those whom they choose to engage.

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Benefits of Catastrophe

Digital ID catastrophe is almost inevitable, but will be a stimulus to drive positive changes in awareness of secure identity and authentication.

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Blocs Lead the Way to Interoperability

Blocs of friendly states lead interoperability through government issued digital IDs that are recognised across international borders.

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Blueprint for Success

Global financial transactions and payments infrastructures will provide us with the ‘blueprint’ for building a truly interoperable Digital ID system.

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Centralised or Distributed Digital Identity Systems?

Distributed implementation removes concerns of trust in single entities. Centralised systems bring uptake and interoperability. Nation states decide.

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Competing Interest Areas

A battle for ‘ownership’ of the identity space grows, highlighting ideologies: e.g. social good, economic opportunity, privacy, national security, social order.

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Controlled Environments

Controlled environments have demonstrated the early steps for AV and are growing steadily. Airports, port terminals, factories, mines and even dedicated highways all provide safe areas for development.

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Convenience Rules

Continuing consumer appetite for convenience drives development of Digital ID, especially as many processes requiring formal ID feel so old-fashioned today.

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Cost Reduction

Digital ID enables service providers to reduce their transaction costs and accelerate the pace of innovation, both for them and for wider society.

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Cyber Security

With the threat of hacks, denial of service, vandalism and theft of data, organisations seek to make AV more secure through adopting common approaches for closed, collaborative systems.

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Data Dividend

Providing a data dividend paid to all citizens would mean that they are remunerated by companies for the use of their data. It could also encourage more personal data sharing and even help set standards for IoT data.

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Data IP Attribution

Digital IDs enable the tracing of contribution of individual ‘chunks’ of data in data-driven services, allowing for all contributors to be fairly recompensed.

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Data Provenance

Digital ID enables provenance of all ‘owned data’ including data provided by, say, passive sensors in cars, much of which may not be personal at all.

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Data Sharing

More and deeper data sharing are pivotal in enabling the AV ambition. Mobility brands eventually agree the protocols for V2X interaction and so support the use of open data sets.

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Data-less business models

Innovations allow users to give access to data without sharing it. New models centre on positive, privacy-preserving, consumer propositions.

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Digital Citizenship

Digital IDs issued at birth and/or multi-lateral and global bodies issuing and protecting Digital ID gives greater meaning and usefulness to them.

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Digital ID Accountability

Clear accountability and strong punishments emerge in response to Digital ID misuse, reputation damage and a need for good data stewardship.

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Digital ID as a Fundamental Human Right

Digital Identity becomes a fundamental human right. Governments ensure both access and equity for all, while business is made to respect this right.

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Digital ID as Belonging

Just as individuals identify with others (e.g. location, faith, custom), so it is in the digital space. Cultural and social sensitivities remain key.

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Digital ID as Qualifications Wallet

Digital ID enables decentralized, or even non-university, qualification acquisition and presentation given growth in online, skills-based education.

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Digital ID Federations

As with airline alliances (e.g. Star Alliance), Digital ID Federations form linking together Attribute Suppliers and Digital ID Providers.

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Digital ID for Good

Digital ID is used as a problem-solving tool – e.g. tracking personal carbon footprints. But is it a doorway to unintended social monitoring?

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Digital ID Platforms

Brokers emerge to help individuals easily manage their use of multiple ID’s, profiles and attributes across different contexts.

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Digital Identity – The First Wave

Early adopters will include those who need to become familiar with Digital ID in order to access basic (digitally adapting) government services.

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Digital Identity Literacy

A wholesale move toward Digital ID will require it’s own programme of education to teach people how to maintain and keep safe their Digital ID.

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Digital Revenues Tax

The EU has proposed a digital service tax of 3% on the income from all commercial activities. This will give countries the rights to tax the largest companies based on a proportion of their global sales.

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Digital Rights Management

Digital ID provides the vehicle for managing digital rights – when to be anonymous, when to be seen, when its ok to be monitored, etc.

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Drones for Goods and People

Investment in timely drone delivery services accelerates deployment in several locations, but the roll-out of air-taxis may not be as widespread as many hope. Large scale impact is limited.

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Enhanced Cyber Security

Strong and secure systems of digital identification will play a significant role in enhancing cyber security for individuals, organisations and states.

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Environmental and Social Impact

Ensuring that autonomous vehicles are cleaner than alternative options may be a pre-requisite in many cities while the benefit of AVs for wider society is a crucial issue for wider endorsement.

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Erosion of Agency

Consumer comfort in outsourcing agency to ‘things’ drives a rich market of data driven technology deciding for us. Erosion of human agency results.

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Ethics by Design

Sensitivity of Digital ID data, and the potential for catastrophic or malign mis-use, drives ‘ethical by design’ standards that go beyond compliance.

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Expanding Roles

Roles/responsibilities in Digital ID systems grow from today’s verifiers and trust partners to legal guardians, delegated authorities, AI brokers, etc.

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Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

Highly centralised Digital ID systems, provide potential for identity ‘keepers’ to hold vast amounts of user data across myriad different contexts.

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First / Last Mile

Improving the inefficient first/last mile is a major opportunity with health, energy, and efficiency benefits. Scooters, bikes, and small autonomous robots in urban environments, all play a part.

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From Tech to Society

Today Digital ID is a tech challenge. Pressure increases for it to be managed as a social challenge with tech held accountable for decisions made today.

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Hyper Accurate Advertising

Users practiced in social media’s ‘data for advertising’ model, consent to sharing their ID for this purpose, resulting in hyper accurate advertising.

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Identity Victims

History is littered with horrific examples of the consequences of formally assigning identity markers (race, religion etc.). Digital ID will be no different.

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Immortal ID

Immortal IDs form - the sum of our digital histories and a collection of all digital attributes. But who owns and controls them? Under what consent?

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Impact of Regulation

The regions that gain most initially will be those where there is advanced regulation to act as a catalyst for AV deployment. Addressing information sharing, collaboration, and liability are critical.

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Implementation Matters

Poor implementations will lead to massive data breaches, damaging faith in Digital ID service providers, or even the Digital ID concept as a whole.

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Increased Accountability

Digital ID increases accountability in public online spaces, where online behaviours can be traced back to offline identities.

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Influence of Scale

China’s super apps and India’s IndiaStack are already expanding into, and influencing, other geographies. Digital ID tech will ‘follow the money’.

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Initial Users

Although AVs may have significant benefit for those without access to affordable mobility – especially the young, elderly and disabled – from the start autonomy has to be attractive for all users.

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Invisible Identity Experience

Digital ID will cease to be a concern to end users as it becomes more or less invisible, outsourced and part of our daily lives.

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IoT Leads IoP

Commercial use cases for ‘things’ creates identity and attribute frameworks and infrastructure for objects. These are then applied to people.

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Less Congestion

Decreasing congestion on the roads is a core ambition for AV advocates but many recognise that, with mixed fleets operating for several years, we many initially see an increase in urban traffic.

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Less Traffic – Less Road – Less Parking

Effective deployment of AVs as part of integrated public transport systems may mean not only fewer vehicles on the roads, but also parking spaces can be removed and roads can become narrower.

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Local Digital Citizenship

Distrust of surveillance and distant institutions leads to hyper-local identity and authentication by the people we know and communities we live in.

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Management of Digital ID Rights

As Digital ID becomes part of society’s critical infrastructure, rules emerge on how access rights can be given, taken away, redressed and restored.

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Many Internets

Lacking a single global solution, the internet splits into different realms: e.g. Open-Internet, Dark Internet and Internet Islands (local Digital ID systems).

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Me, Myself and I

Digital ID users maintain deliberately separated identities and attribute stores. Providers offer context-based, Digital-ID-as-a-service solutions.

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Merging of Identity and ID

As ID management and attribute systems collect more detailed digital user histories, our Identity and ID will merge, with unknowable consequences.

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New Biometric Fingerprints

New identity markers, including our ‘routines’, prove useful in detecting fraud, especially where AI sees changes in behavioural patterns.

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New Digital ID markets

Digital ID has the potential to play a critical role in social and economic life. A new range of economic opportunities and markets will emerge around it.

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Null-attributes

Identity attributes, currently understood as unique (e.g. fingerprint) become unusable or ‘null’ as they are exposed in continued breaches.

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Offsetting Unintended Consequences

Specialist thinking emerges, particularly sociological, around the potential unintended consequences of rapid deployment and adoption of Digital ID.

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Personal Gatekeeping

Consent management systems and platforms emerge to help individuals more easily ‘trust in an otherwise trustless system (of machines)’

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Personalised, Controlled Exchanges

Digital ID gives people greater control over access to their personal data, and encourages transparency of service-providers in onward use.

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Proxy Digital IDs

As the pool of Personally Identifiable Information continues to grow, the need for Digital Identity reduces. Algorithms win the race for identity.

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Public Transport Systems

As autonomous buses are introduced, other mobility solutions will also have to be used to fill transportation gaps. Security, flexibility, reach and interconnectivity are primary criteria.

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Re-evaluation of Cyber-risk

Breaches to digital ID systems have the potential to cause catastrophic damage. Organisations will radically re-evaluate their investment to mitigate it.

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Regulation on the Fly

Digital ID will land and expand very quickly. Regulators will be faced with the task of ‘building the aeroplane whilst flying it’.

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Remote Support Centres

Manned call centres provide oversight, support and emergency response for all AVs. In the absence of drivers, most public transport vehicles require remote human supervision.

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Resistance to Sharing

As many people value their personal space, support for a significant rise in ride-sharing may not be as high as some predict. Rethinking vehicle design for strangers travelling together is a priority.

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Rethinking Transport Planning

For AV to have impact it may be necessary to rethink a more flexible approach to planning. Poor coordination between transit systems, urban planning and future solutions may delay the benefits.

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Right to be Forgotten

For some, feeling ‘forced’ to control their own data and profiles is unwelcome. The right to be forgotten remains a key design principle.

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Robo-Taxi Fleets

Robo-taxis are increasingly seen as the way forward for passenger vehicles and could change both travel patterns and car ownership decisions. They are a core part of ‘Mobility as a Service’ offers.

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Robust Authentication Equals Trust

Strong authentication processes will be the key factor in determining overall levels of trust in the reliability and security of a given Digital ID system.

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Secure Access without Disclosure

Driven by increased consumer awareness of continuing misuse, transacting while giving minimal (or no) information gains momentum.

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Self-sovereign ID

Calls for self-sovereign digital ID - or the ‘controlled sharing’ principles on which it is based - are likely to increase, as are attempts to build it.

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Setting the Standards

First-movers will develop standards for basis of global Digital ID systems. Consumers and governments decide the winners (e.g. Betamax vs VHS).

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Social Scoring

Digital ID attributes enable monitoring of, ‘good behaviour’, e.g., carbon footprint tracking. In the hands of some, this evolves into social scoring.

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Something Owned, Something Known, Something You

Authentication typically features something you own, you know and you are. Innovating unique attributes leads to new ways of thinking about who we are.

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Stateless Netizens

Digital ID for some (e.g. displaced peoples) becomes more important than citizenship, leading to societal groups based on new, shared attributes.

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Super-surveillance

Digital ID’s highly accurate and relatively clean surveillance data, will lead to mass surveillance in some states and market economies.

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Taxing Data Value

If a value can be put on every organisation’s data then, as well as opening the door to multiple new innovation opportunities for the companies involved, it can also help progress the way regulators can act.

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The Big Fake

Fake Digital IDs, unlike fake passports, have the potential to be used in many contexts at the same time, scaling up the consequences involved.

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The Case for Digital Inclusion

Digital ID systems will go some way towards addressing access and exclusion issues of the 1 billion+ people lacking legal identity documents.

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The Cost of Convenience

Convenience remains as a core driver, but with the cost of teaching poor behaviours, e.g., learning laziness, path of least resistance, etc.

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The Un-Digital

With the arrival of Digital ID rights comes the inalienable right to be non-digital, and the need to serve the ‘Digital Amish’ who choose to opt out.

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Transparent Exchange

Digital ID drives transparency in the value exchange between consumers and services, curtailing current ’surveillance capitalism’ business models.

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Trust Cocktails

As ‘things’ are given Digital IDs, people are no longer certain of who or what they are trusting - app, service, device or person - or if they should care.

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Unified Digital ID Ethical Principles

Digital ID ethical principles mirror the Bio-ethical path of AI development: Beneficence, Non‑maleficence, Autonomy and Justice (and Explicability).

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Value, not Identity

Consumers are only motivated to adopt Digital Identity through compelling use cases that deliver tangible value to them (e.g. time or cost saving).

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Verified but Incognito

For more private contexts and use-cases, properly authenticated, but wholly anonymous identities are deployed within the Digital ID eco-system.

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Zero Knowledge Proofs

Future Digital Identities will include attributes that are harder to mimic or steal. Authentication will occur without data exchange, limiting the data at risk.

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Tuesday 16th April 2019 We are very pleased to announce another workshop in partnership with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. On 7th June we will be exploring…

Tuesday 16th April 2019 We are very pleased to announce another workshop in partnership with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. On 7th June we will be exploring the future of autonomous vehicles - on land, sea and…

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The Future of Autonomous Vehicles

The dream of self-driving vehicles has been a long time…

The dream of self-driving vehicles has been a long time coming. It is however now within reach and the pressure…

The dream of self-driving vehicles has been a long time coming. It is however now within reach and the pressure is on to the deliver on the vision. With sustained…

The dream of self-driving vehicles has been a long time coming. It is however now within reach and the pressure is on to the deliver on the vision. With sustained technology development, increased investment and raising public awareness, there is…

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The Future of Autonomous Vehicles

How, where and when will autonomous vehicles really have impact?…

How, where and when will autonomous vehicles really have impact? With so much investment and tech development underway, many are…

How, where and when will autonomous vehicles really have impact? With so much investment and tech development underway, many are asking where, how and when will we see self-driving cars,…

How, where and when will autonomous vehicles really have impact? With so much investment and tech development underway, many are asking where, how and when will we see self-driving cars, buses and trucks on the streets in earnest? A host…

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The Future of Digital Identity

A major new project kicks off with new point of…

A major new project kicks off with new point of view and workshops. Our interconnected digital world has started to…

A major new project kicks off with new point of view and workshops. Our interconnected digital world has started to make a mockery of traditional forms of identification. Being asked…

A major new project kicks off with new point of view and workshops. Our interconnected digital world has started to make a mockery of traditional forms of identification. Being asked to produce ‘two forms of ID; at least one from…

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The Future of Insurance

The insurance sector is facing major change - from both…

The insurance sector is facing major change - from both within and outside. What will be the major shifts over…

The insurance sector is facing major change - from both within and outside. What will be the major shifts over the next decade that have greatest impact? As part of…

The insurance sector is facing major change - from both within and outside. What will be the major shifts over the next decade that have greatest impact? As part of the World in 2030 project, this is an initial view…

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The Future of Retail

As physical shopping around the world variously restarts post-lockdown, a…

As physical shopping around the world variously restarts post-lockdown, a number of organisations are, unsurprisingly, asking what the medium and…

As physical shopping around the world variously restarts post-lockdown, a number of organisations are, unsurprisingly, asking what the medium and long-term changes for the future of retail may be. While…

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The Future of Work and Skills Development

Over the last few months we have been working closely…

Over the last few months we have been working closely with the University of Bristol, School of Management to develop…

Over the last few months we have been working closely with the University of Bristol, School of Management to develop an initial perspective on the Future of Work and Skills…

Over the last few months we have been working closely with the University of Bristol, School of Management to develop an initial perspective on the Future of Work and Skills Development. It marks the beginning of a programme, supported by…

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The World in 2030

Although many eyes are set on possible developments for the…

Although many eyes are set on possible developments for the next year, the Future Agenda team continue to explore key…

Although many eyes are set on possible developments for the next year, the Future Agenda team continue to explore key shifts for the next decade. As we share insights from…

Although many eyes are set on possible developments for the next year, the Future Agenda team continue to explore key shifts for the next decade. As we share insights from multiple expert discussions around the world, 2020 sees our next…

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Value of Data Global Insights

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Top Views from 30 Expert Discussions Around the World This is a summary of some key insights on how different experts…

Top Views from 30 Expert Discussions Around the World This is a summary of some key insights on how different experts around the world see the future value of data. It…

Top Views from 30 Expert Discussions Around the World This is a summary of some key insights on how different experts around the world see the future value of data. It brings together the top 3 challenges, opportunities and emerging issues…

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Value of Data Summary

Throughout 2018 a series of 30 workshops were undertaken around…

Throughout 2018 a series of 30 workshops were undertaken around the world exploring the key topic of the future value…

Throughout 2018 a series of 30 workshops were undertaken around the world exploring the key topic of the future value of data. Engaging with around 1000 experts in 25 countries,…

Throughout 2018 a series of 30 workshops were undertaken around the world exploring the key topic of the future value of data. Engaging with around 1000 experts in 25 countries, this major research project has looked at the key issues…

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World’s Most Innovative Cities in 2050

Cities are where innovation happens, where most ideas form and…

Cities are where innovation happens, where most ideas form and economic growth largely stems. For centuries, the world’s most innovative…

Cities are where innovation happens, where most ideas form and economic growth largely stems. For centuries, the world’s most innovative cities have been acting as global catalysts for change, and…

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