Love the Estonia exampl as proof of concept. The 4% GDP boost claim is wild but probably understates the second-order effects. I worked with DMV data integration once and the amount of redundant verification steps across agencies is nuts. The harder sell is getting poeple past the "national ID = surveillance state" framing, even tho we already have that with SSNs just way less securely.
Yeah that McKinsey estimate might be too high but I doubt it's that far off. As just one example, think of the cumulative effort doctor's offices and healthcare providers have to put in transferring and managing healthcare records. In Estonia they have an only-once principle for filling out forms so you can update your healthcare info once and propagate it across all providers. Having a public standard for data transfer also makes data privacy compliance so much easier for businesses.
It would likely need to be partially opt-in at first for people to get over the surveillance state concerns but the net effect in Estonia was like a steroid for social trust, especially compared to other post-Soviet states which continue to have problems with corruption. Pitching it as a transparency measure could help sell it to the public.
Love the Estonia exampl as proof of concept. The 4% GDP boost claim is wild but probably understates the second-order effects. I worked with DMV data integration once and the amount of redundant verification steps across agencies is nuts. The harder sell is getting poeple past the "national ID = surveillance state" framing, even tho we already have that with SSNs just way less securely.
Yeah that McKinsey estimate might be too high but I doubt it's that far off. As just one example, think of the cumulative effort doctor's offices and healthcare providers have to put in transferring and managing healthcare records. In Estonia they have an only-once principle for filling out forms so you can update your healthcare info once and propagate it across all providers. Having a public standard for data transfer also makes data privacy compliance so much easier for businesses.
It would likely need to be partially opt-in at first for people to get over the surveillance state concerns but the net effect in Estonia was like a steroid for social trust, especially compared to other post-Soviet states which continue to have problems with corruption. Pitching it as a transparency measure could help sell it to the public.