By Stephan Engberg on Torsdag, September 17 2020, 11:46 - Technology
CitizenKey is to many a revolutionary new way of looking at digital design from a citizen-centric and trustworthy perspective. The essence being that we almost always can solve problems better without creating or using personal data at all.
![CitizenKey overview.jpg, Jun 2020](/public/Graphics/.CitizenKey_overview_m.jpg)
When you have understood the implication, you will very likely get a eureka moment and wonder why we haven't done so long ago !?
The answer to that question is multiple elements.
- It is complex - digital identity is on of our most challenging problems ever, also called a wicked problem.
- Hard and software are only recently matured to solve the problem.
- Internet standards was from the start designed for surveillance, not for empowerment.
- We have an enormous technology debt in billions of devices and applications etc. that are not easily upgraded to trustworthy computing
- Powerful players make fortunes and build power from surveillance and profiling - they won't voluntarily surrender that power
- Digital technology scale vulnerabilities and problems while often eliminating traditional limits - this means that many fields require and update in theory and thinking which does not happen overnight.
- Digital problems are multi-competence in world where education go in-dept on one competence meaning that few people are schooled in lateral thinking
- Humans are good at learning, but horribly bad at unlearning and relearning - when first the bad paradigms of e.g. platform thinking was introduced it takes a generation to unlearn what people think they know
- In the digital space, we need to answer questions, we never dared to ask before.
Digital Society is a Designed Society and all our mistakes scale out of control.
Here is an humble introduction to CitizenKey as a bid to overcome the complexities and apparent contradictions (in Danish)