Nordic and Baltic ministers on Thursday at a meeting adopted a declaration to support the acceptance of European Digital Identity Wallets in the region.
The annual meeting of the Nordic Council of Ministers for Digitalisation was held in Tampere as a part of Finland's and Åland's co-presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers, said the Ministry of Finance in a press release.
The goal is to create a shared certification system that will make it easier to adopt secure and cost-effective solutions for European Digital Identity Wallets.
A European Digital Identity Wallet is an application for a mobile phone. The application works similarly to ordinary wallets in that it contains various types of information.
It combines secure digital services with the management and use of personal data across Europe.
The European Digital Identity Wallet should become available to EU citizens by the end of 2026.
However, all EU member states are responsible for their own wallet application.
The meeting also discussed the development of cross-border services and the removal of cross-border barriers with the aim of expanding current projects to cover all of the Nordic and Baltic countries.
The Nordic Baltic electronic identity (NOBID) project, supported by MR-DIGITAL, is a great example of cooperation between all the member countries. It has developed a pilot solution for cross-border identity matching, which has been tested between Norway, Sweden and Denmark earlier this year.
At the meeting, the ministers also shared their countries’ best practices. For example, Finland’s and Estonia’s long-standing exchange of population data and Finland’s and Sweden's new project to promote the exchange of data. There is potential for experiences from both projects to be applied more extensively in the region.
The ultimate goal is to make the Nordic region the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
