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Amine Ben Naceur

Senior Non-Resident Policy Fellow at Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)

Middle Eastern Studies at University of Geneva

United States

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Hi, I'm Amine Ben Naceur!

Senior Non-Resident Policy Fellow at Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)

Active in international cooperation and development for more than five years, I have mainly worked with donors and multilateral organizations in Europe and the MENA region. Based in Washington D.C. since March 2021, I wish to pursue my career in an international organization or company implementing development projects in the field of democracy and good governance (e.g., dialogue between government and civil society), digitization of the economy and services (especially from an access perspective), and finally access to the labor market for women and youth (and more broadly for marginalized communities).

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Identified but Unheard Assessing the Impacts of Digital ID on Civic and Political Participation of Marginalized Communities

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gUESfiedxNAMXRDfoTF8EstDUbQbPf4I/view

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Digital ID systems promise to make life easier. With a digital ID, in theory, opening a bank account or accessing an agricultural subsidy is more efficient. But questions of who controls information collection, where data is stored, and how data is used present tremendous challenges for democracy. Digitally streamlined and interconnected systems, when designed inclusively and implemented with appropriate legal frameworks for data protection, can broaden opportunities for civic and political participation. Yet these centralized identification systems can just as easily be used as a weapon to coerce specific communities, perpetuate existing inequalities, and reinforce discrimination against marginalized communities who have been historically excluded from exercising their civic and political rights.

The goal of this paper is to understand how digital ID systems can impact individuals' abilities to exercise their civic and political rights, particularly for members of marginalized communities, and to provide recommendations for building inclusive, secure, and transparent ID systems. Despite a large body of research on digital ID's impacts on social and economic inclusion, a gap around the impacts on political participation remains. As governments digitize identification systems and electoral procedures and seek to connect them, it is crucial that any digital ID system upholds democratic principles of inclusion, privacy and security, and transparency.

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