With the Digital Identity Award, IDnext want to recognize and support new developments that are shaping the future of digital identity. Submissions are innovative concepts, products or project.

Criteria for the award include:

o Innovativeness (technological as well as business model)

o Success; how the privacy aspect is dealt with

o Added value for users and for stakeholders

o The (potential) impact of the concept, project or product.

More information about the submission of Digital identity award 2015 will follow promptly.

Previous winners of the IDnext Digital Identity award are

· 2013 – idBCN – is a digital identity system provided by the Barcelona City Council as a free public service. idBCN allows citizens to identify themselves remotely and securely to a number of digital services by means of the digital ID in their mobile phone.

· 2012 – eHerkenning – eRecognition is a Dutch e-identity trust framework that enables companies to re-use digital identities to authenticate themselves towards government organizations. Conducting business online thus becomes easier and more reliable.

· 2011 – Edentiti – Edentiti provides online identity verification by checking information from various online data sources, and does so under the control of the end user.

· 2010 – Ziggur – (Ziggur is a Dutch service that enables everybody on the worldwide web to decide what they want to happen to their online profiles & online belongings after their death. Ziggur makes sure the wishes regarding the digital inheritance of the deceased are fullfilled, thus burdening those who are left behind.