Digital Identities in Local Municipalities with Henk Marsman, SonicBee – Podcast Episode 87

Let's talk about digital identity with Henk Marsman, public speaker and Principal Consultant at SonicBee. In episode 87, Oscar is joined by Henk Marsman, specialist and public speaker around ethics of digital identity and Principal Consultant of Identity and Access Management at SonicBee. Henk and Oscar explore why local municipalities may need their own digital identity schemes – including how these local schemes differ from national schemes and how they help people missed by national schemes, alongside some examples of live local identity schemes. They also discuss what are the disadvantages of these local identity schemes and how they could be incorporated into wallet-based identification, like eIDAS 2.0. "Put the human at the centre, what the individual’s needs, what the individuals want to achieve … and that is basically the ethical perspective, or the value perspective on digital identity solutions that we have in the world today." Henk Marsman combines deep knowledge on digital identity with an ethical view on the impact on individuals and society of digitalization of identity. His research on the ‘ethics of digital identity’ is still ongoing. Henk is involved in initiatives related to national digital identity (including eIDAS2.0), municipal digital identity and specifically for undocumented persons. Next to that he’s supporting organisations through his work at SonicBee, a Dutch IAM boutique firm, in digital identity projects. He has worked for 5 years at a top-three Dutch bank (Rabobank) as the global service owner for the Identity and Access Management services, and prior to that was senior manager with Deloitte, leading the Dutch IAM practice. Connect with Henk on LinkedIn. Find his personal blog at ThroughIdentity and other blogs and articles at SonicBee. We’ll be continuing this conversation on Twitter using #LTADI – join us @ubisecure! Go to our YouTube to watch the video transcript for this episode. Learn about the commercial and technical aspects of Identity & Access Management, at IAM Academy, Ubisecure’s partner training program.