The united voice for digital identity and trust
in Aotearoa New Zealand
DINZ brings together Aotearoa’s digital identity, trust, and assurance community to advance an open, interoperable digital identity ecosystem grounded in strong governance, legal certainty, and public trust.
Digital identity is becoming essential national infrastructure. Done well, it enables people to access services more easily and securely, reduces fraud and identity misuse, and supports privacy-enhancing verification—including selective disclosure, where a person can prove something (such as eligibility or authorisation) without sharing unnecessary personal information. DINZ stewards the conditions for a trusted ecosystem to emerge and scale safely—aligned with New Zealand’s legal frameworks, regulatory expectations, and democratic values.
OUR ACTIVITY FRAMEWORK
Connect
We convene stakeholders across industry, government, and communities to build shared understanding, strengthen relationships, and support real-world adoption pathways.
Inform
We advance reference architecture, interoperability patterns, and practical use cases—helping catalyse a credentials and verifiable credentials marketplace at scale for Aotearoa.
Advance
We support governance guardrails and legal alignment, including the Digital Identity Services Trust Framework, so innovation proceeds in ways that are sustainable, rights-respecting, and internationally credible.
Inspiring trust solutions that protect, empower,
and help our people thrive.
OUR IMPACT
We work alongside our members to enable trusted digital identity systems that support economic growth, public confidence, and social good.
Growth
We support the growth of New Zealand’s digital economy by enabling interoperable digital identity systems that can scale across sectors and borders. By reducing fragmentation and lock‑in, we help organisations adopt identity solutions that unlock innovation, productivity, and new market opportunities.
Good Tech
We promote the responsible use of digital identity through risk‑appropriate assurance and trusted design patterns. By aligning technology choices with real‑world risk and context, we support identity systems that are secure, privacy‑respecting, and fit for purpose across public and private use cases.
People
We build trust in digital identity by supporting legal and regulatory alignment, including implementation of the Digital Identity Services Trust Framework. Our work helps ensure identity systems protect individual rights, enable informed consent, and are understood and trusted by the people who use them.
Planet
We support practical, sustainable pathways to scale digital identity infrastructure in Aotearoa. By enabling shared services, credentials ecosystems, and verifiable credentials marketplaces, we help reduce duplication and inefficiency while supporting long‑term, system‑level resilience.