Introduction
The International Conference on Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure 2024, is being hosted by The Alan Turing Institute, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday 20 May 2024. This conference is a flagship event for the Alan Turing Institute's programme Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure for Identity Systems funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In its fourth year, it is an international forum for researchers, practitioners, open-source advocates and developers to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns on achieving trustworthy systems.
About the event
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) aims to drive the development of three foundational systems that are seen to be essential to delivering economic opportunities and social service to residents, i.e. Identity, Payments and Data Exchange. Their aim is to ensure principal aspects of our lives become easier but are built upon trust, safety, interoperability, inclusion, and accessibility. To not only drive development and innovation, but to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the process. DPI can create vibrant and competitive economies as access to services become available to all aspects of society. These initiatives provide control over personal earnings, routes to business innovation and access to efficient government services. DPI also provides opportunities for achieving sustainable development goals, with availability to all being an important step to reduce inequality. In addition to this the aggregation and exchange of data supports health and well-being by providing health care over a lifetime, it also increases sustainable and inclusive economic growth, through the reduction of food insecurity in at-risk communities.
Digitisation is seen as an enabler with countries integrating and harmonising Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems as a means for addressing critical identity related issues including the estimated 164 million under-fives unregistered globally. E-Government services are also expected to experience rapid growth, with the use of digital identity documents being expected to exceed 6.5 billion users globally in 2026, a 50% increase from 2022.
However, while this is positive, legal and regulatory frameworks are required to be rights-based, well-governed, fit-for-purpose and focused on the citizens that they serve. Also, while this rapid growth provides many potential benefits, new and emerging digital identity technologies have real potential to increase the threat landscape and the danger of system abuse. Therefore, there is a real danger of existential threat if there is not a continued and coordinated effort in addressing the trustworthiness of the digital identity and related services.
It is in this context that we are pleased to invite you to register to attend the International Conference on Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure 2024.
Important dates
- Paper submission deadline: Monday 01 April 2024
- Notification of acceptance: w/c Monday 08 April 2024
- Registration opens: w/c Monday 25 March 2024
- Participants required to submit mandatory changes / camera-ready copy: Monday 29 April 2024
- Registration closes: Tuesday 30 April 2024
- Final conference programme announced: Tuesday 06 May 2024
- International Conference on Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure 2024: Monday 20 May 2024
If you'd like to request any reasonable adjustments or have any questions about this event please contact Angelika Kerlin at [email protected]
Venue
The Rockefeller Hotel & Residence, 12 Christiaan Barnard St, Foreshore, Cape Town, 8001
Register now
Please see our ticket types below:
- In-person: £50.00 (including VAT)
- Virtual: Free
- Paper presenters: The call for papers has been closed, and we are presently in the process of reviewing submissions. Notifications regarding acceptance will be delivered during w/c Monday 8 April. Successful applicants will receive a separate registration link.
Access fund application
With its strong focus on accessibility and drive to ensure people from all backgrounds are in a position to contribute to the UK’s future in data science and AI, The Alan Turing Institute provides a number of complimentary in-person tickets to the International Conference on Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure 2024, for students. To apply for one, please complete this short application form.
All applications will be reviewed after the closing date. Please do note that we may need to close this application portal early, in line with ticket availability, you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
To be considered for an access fund ticket, please ensure that you are an undergraduate or postgraduate student within data science, AI or related field.
