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It-Wallet: the future of digital identity begins today

The trial of the It-Wallet, the Italian digital wallet, starts today 23 October, for now only for 50 thousand Italians.

This tool will offer citizens new opportunities for using their digital identity while ensuring maximum security and protection of personal data. Three digitized documents can be uploaded to the IO app wallet: the driving licence, the European health insurance card and the European disability card. To use the services you will need to have SPID or CIE credentials. Digital documents can be used instead of physical ones and, at least in this first experimental period, only for offline interactions: the driving license can only be used in Italy; the health card – European health insurance card will give access to the services of the National Health Service; the European disability card can be used in the same ways as the physical document. Having digital documents is not mandatory, citizens are free to use physical ones.

In this first test, only 50 thousand Italian citizens will be able to take advantage of this opportunity. Then it will be gradually extended from 6 November to 250 thousand people, from 30 November to 1 million and from 4 December to all those who have the IO app. The selection of users who will test the functionality in the first trial periods is random among all users of the app.

The creation of the IT Wallet began in recent months, with the establishment of the “Italian digital wallet system” in the Pnrr decree. For now, the digital wallet service can only be used by downloading the IO app, an app that is public and free. Once the first test phase is completed, the Italian citizen will be able to move around using exclusively digital documents which, only from 2025, will they also be able to be used for online activities. The documents that should be added to complete the experiment are voter ID and passport.

The EUDI “will provide a secure, reliable and private means of digital identification for everyone in Europe”.

The Italian experimentation of the It-Wallet is the first case in Europe of this kind because of the EUDI, the European digital identity which will arrive in 2026. The EUDI will have 4 functions: access to online services, have digital documents, share digital documents and securely seal documents with digital signatures. Furthermore, you will be able to “get a new bank account, enrol in a university abroad or apply for your next job”. The EU expects that “each Member State will offer its wallet app, built according to the same specifications, to all citizens, residents and businesses in the coming years. Each version of the wallet will be interoperable and will work anywhere in the European Union.”

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