Participants arising from a one-day breakfast session on
“Identity is the new money,” says Nigeria lacks the framework for data
protection, reports ITRealms.
The event organized by eMaginations Limited under its eNnovators
Breakfast Series (EBS), is a quarterly breakfast event packaged for the
Dreamers, Drivers and Doers (3Ds) of technology business in financial services
industry across Africa.
According to the Event Director, Sola Fanawopo, EBS offers
opportunities to network, learn and plan strategically.
A communique endorsed by Fanawopo, participants called for the
government to enact data privacy law to protect consumers’ personal information
and ensure that they have the confidence to take advantage of benefits of the
ever-changing marketplace.
Also, the government was advised to encourage to establish
identity brokerage services, ‘banker for data’ or ‘ISP for identity services’
I-Brokers is trusted third party that
helps individuals and organizations share private data the same way banks help
exchange funds and ISPs help exchange e-mail and files.
They also pointed out that i-brokers when licensed will help
bridge the gap between relying (RP) party and identity service provider (IDP)
by providing public infrastructure for digital identity, security, and privacy
using the open standard data interchange protocol. Besides, I-Brokers will
alleviate the number of integrations required between RPs and IDPs.
Government, they further said, should make life easy for
consumers of ID services by promoting the concept of “Connect to One, Connect
to All.”
While those in the private sector as Information Technology
(IT) firms should exploit the opportunities of absence of ID management
platforms to invest in identity management services so that local competence
can be developed in the industry.
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