An academic study has delved into the interoperability paradox currently hampering some of the most technically mature digital identity systems around the world, finding that such failure is due to institutional governance problems, and not technical standards or compliance deficit issues. Co-authored by Shah Mahmood and Carsten Maple of the University of Warwick and Mark Hooper of the Alan Turing Institute, the study looked into the digital ID systems of Brazil, Nigeria and the Philippines, whi