ID Talk: Why ID and Payments are Foundational to Digital Infrastructure, with Visa and TECH5

This week’s episode of the ID Talk podcast delves into a fascinating new digital ID solution—the GovWallet, which combines biometric digital identity technologies with Visa’s payment tech and infrastructure. To lay it all out, ID Talk hosts Tony Bitzionis and Alex Perala are joined by TECH5 co-founder, Chairman, and CTO Rahul Parthe, with Svyatoslav Senyuta, Government Solutions Regional Leader, CEMEA at Visa.

The GovWallet represents an ambitious effort aimed at a national scale. As Rahul explains right off the bat, their work on the GovWallet has been about building digital infrastructure, and not simply ID infrastructure. Self-Sovereign Identity is foundational to the GovWallet, but, as Rahul explains, that’s really just a starting point for a wider set of integrated digital capabilities—including, importantly, those that involve payments and other financial transactions, as Visa’s Svyat goes on to detail.

From there, the discussion touches on a range of related questions and topics, including – among other things – financial inclusion, biometric data privacy, and how digital ID technology is already transforming government services, as seen in non-GovWallet examples like India’s Aadhaar and Ukraine’s Diia app.

The conversation offers an inside look at one of the earliest and most ambitious ID-focused digital infrastructure efforts in the world, guided by executives with first-hand knowledge and expertise. You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, or through the media player below:

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September 6, 2024 – by the FindBiometrics Editorial Team