UN Digital ID: a unique staff identifier to reduce data fragmentation

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UN Digital ID: a unique staff identifier to reduce data fragmentation

The UN Digital ID is a unique identity for each United Nations staff, from onboarding to retirement. Having a unique identification across the UN system reduces data fragmentation and duplication, with the potential to simplify and streamline processes and transactions across all business functions between staff and organizations, and also between UN organizations themselves. As a data exchange platform, Digital ID will allow staff from participating organizations to share any of their HR and other personal information with complete visibility, consent and security.

The UN Digital ID is part of UN 2.0, the UN System’s push to achieve an efficient data-driven transformation.

The UN Digital ID was the winning idea of the Reimagine the UN Together Challenge and product of the Task Force on the Future of the UN System Workforce. Its Terms of Reference (ToR) was approved by the High-Level Committee on Management at its 42nd Session in October 2021. The ToR has been updated with the approved Programme Charter as of 13 July 2023, which updates the timeline, scope and budget of the UN Digital ID Programme. The UN Digital ID builds upon the Digital Certificate of Entitlement (DCE) of the UNJSPF that has been in place since 2021.

Six sponsoring organizations are part of the first phase:
• UN Secretariat
• UNHCR
• WFP
• UNJSPF
• UNICEF
• UNDP

The United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) is the technology solution provider.

The solution could be scaled to other organizations at a later stage.

Regions:

Global

Countries:

United States

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