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PIB-D is seeks to give individuals control of trusted personal data online, starting in the education sector.
The lead application for PDE is a portable personal education record, to be used as a point from which an individual can interact with learning providers, and transition between them and into employment. Other applications include
distributed social networking, low value payment, proof of age, proof of identity, reverse (or permissioned) marketing, and many more. The ecosystem will be governed by a non-profit; long-term candidates for the PDS role include banks and mobile network operators, but the first movers are likely to be start-ups, and /or the Identity Providers active within the Gov.UK Verify identity assurance scheme.
PDE can be thought of as a pulling-together of development trends from the fields of payment systems, user-centric identity-management, social networking, and telecommunications. It offers benefits to all parties: individuals will gain control of their personal information, and so can do more things on the web without risking their privacy; while organisations will see: (i) reductions in the costs of securely authenticating, and obtaining trustworthy personal information about, individuals; and (ii) reductions in the costs of customer acquisition (or employee recruitment or citizen participation) as their marketing becomes ever more focused on those likely to engage.
