If you’re reading this on any kind of digital device, you probably use various forms of digital identity on a regular basis. From accessing healthcare to participating in democracy to protecting our finances, modern life requires identity. For most of us, it’s impossible to imagine how we’d live our lives without verifiable identification. Yet, according to the World Bank, that’s the situation for more than one billion people around the world. This issue disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, but globalization is making the world smaller every day, which means that problems of this scale increasingly affect us all. According to USAID, “There may be no single factor that affects a person’s ability to share in the gains of global development as much as having an official identity”. That’s why Okta is proud to have recently joined the ID2020 Alliance, a cross-sector effort of global organizations.