Concept designs for Your ID, Your Way are now with members of the Trusted Credential Adoption Group for feedback.
The initiative is being developed as a single front door for trusted credential adoption in Aotearoa. Its purpose is to help organisations understand what trusted credentials are, where they can create value and how adoption can proceed in ways that are secure, private and interoperable.
Trusted credentials have the potential to transform how people and organisations prove information in digital environments. They can support more efficient access to services, reduce fraud and identity misuse, and enable privacy-enhancing approaches such as selective disclosure.
Selective disclosure matters because people should not have to overshare personal information to prove something simple. In many cases, a person may only need to prove that they are eligible, authorised, qualified or entitled — not reveal every underlying detail.
For Aotearoa, trusted credential adoption also needs to be practical. Organisations need clear use cases, shared language, governance patterns and adoption guidance. They need to understand how credentials can be issued, accepted and trusted across different sectors without creating fragmentation or lock-in.
That is the role Your ID, Your Way is intended to play.
Through the Trusted Credential Adoption Group, DINZ is testing the vision, objectives and structure of the initiative before the Group collectively builds out the content, use cases and guidance needed to bring it to life.
This is deliberately a co-created initiative. DINZ’s role is not to promote a single solution, platform or vendor. It is to help steward the conditions under which a trusted, interoperable digital identity ecosystem can emerge and scale safely.
Member feedback at this stage is critical.
The current concept designs are intended to test whether the initiative is clear, useful and accessible for organisations at different stages of their trusted credential journey. Feedback will help shape the structure, language and priorities before further content is developed.
The ambition is practical adoption at scale: a trusted credential ecosystem that supports portability of skills, qualifications and authorisations; enables safer and more efficient access to services; and strengthens confidence in New Zealand’s digital economy.
If you have received the feedback survey, please take ten minutes to complete it.
Your input will help shape the next stage of a genuinely co-created initiative for Aotearoa.