Anir Chowdhury is the policy advisor of Access to Information in Bangladesh, a UNDP and USAID-supported program run by the Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh. In this capacity, he leads the formation of a whole-of-society innovation ecosystem in Bangladesh through massive technology deployment, extensive capacity development, integrated policy formulation, whole-of-government institutional reform and an innovation fund. He has also co-founded several software and service companies in the U.S. and Bangladesh focused on enterprise management and IT strategy for Fortune 500 corporations.
Three experts weigh in on how to build rigorous digital ID systems that adequately confront the practical and ethical challenges that digital identity presents.