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Cross-Border Digital ID Interoperability

The Nordic and Baltic Ministers of Digitalisation have announced an effort to ensure that member countries’ residents will be able to use their digital IDs across borders. That could open the door to a digital identity system such as Denmark’s MitID being used to access online services in, for example, Sweden.

‘High adoption and usage of electronic identity (eID) paired with reliable population registries and strong identity governance procedures are common features for the countries in our region,’ the ministers explained in a joint statement. ‘These features have resulted in mature digital infrastructures. This enables seamless and secure access for residents of the region to thousands of both public and private online services.’ 

The regional group includes Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland. Digital identity authorities in the member countries will work with their counterparts to ensure that identity matching can be performed reliably across borders.