If the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has put these two countries at the forefront of the international scene, we have learned that the second city is a digital champion.

In a logic of digitizing and centralizing everything, the government launched in 2020 an application called Diia that includes identity cards, passports, permits, vaccination records, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements, social benefits, and more. A model that was known until now only in China with the famous social credit.

This was talked about for a long time, and then precipitated by the COVID crisis, governments want to move towards digitization of everyday life by grouping together almost all services on the phone.

While the European Union had announced a test to digitize the vaccination record, wallet, and identities in 2018, Ukraine was very quick to react with a Diia application deployed by the government almost two years ago. Since then, the platform has continued to evolve.

Ukrainians can download Diia and store a whole bunch of official information as mentioned above, with the aim behind it to be able to easily carry out most of the administrative procedures that range from the payment of their taxes to the renewal of identity documents through the payment of their fines or the recovery of their social benefits.

In all, nearly 50 services can be reached from the application and 9 official documents that have the same value as their paper counterparts.

Eventually, it will soon be impossible to make a formal request. Moreover, with COVID-19, the government has even announced that the payment of benefits is conditional on the presence of a vaccination certificate.

When reality catches up with Orwell… Ukraine was therefore the champion of digitalization before the war broke out at the end of February.

At the beginning of 2021, it already claimed more than 4.5 million active users. But taking a closer look at what is currently being done, it turns out that Poland has a mobile app similar to Ukraine’s, which was launched at the end of 2019.

This Polish app displays seven digital documents and allows users to identify themselves with a digital ID card in places where a paper passport is not legally required.

In the UK and the UAE, citizens can use ePassports at airports for check-in and security screening. This is coming soon to the USA thanks to Apple Wallet.

In China, citizens have access to virtual ID cards embedded in a mobile app. Users can use it to identify themselves when they register in a hotel or to benefit from certain government services, with a points system that allows them to have additional rights in case of “good conduct”.

In Estonia, 70% of the population uses digital identity cards, while 99% of public services are available online.

What do you think of this transition to all-digital? Practical or worrying?

Eventually, they will set a carbon-emission spending credit limit for all purchases.

The first credit card using that technology was created in Sweden with the support of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations.

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