If 2025 is an adjustment year for Eudi Wallet in Europe, «2026 will be the year wheredigital identityand European society will move from experimentation to real reality, although full adoption will still take time.” Giorgia Dragoni, director of the Digital Identity Observatory at the Polytechnic of Milan, captures the trend digital walleton the eve of the conference «Identity wallet: a vision of the near or distant future?», which will be held today in Milan, and which Il Sole 24 Ore Monday able to anticipate data.
European Context
There are 22 projects in the European Union digital identity wallet registered, 11 of them are already operational, but none has yet been certified as an Eudi Wallet that complies with eIDAS2, the regulation that defines a common framework for digital identity and authentication. The UK and Switzerland also chose to align themselves with EU standards as a guaranteeinteroperability.
Some countries, such as Japan, are establishing partnerships with Big Tech, while projects outside the government sector are gaining ground: there are 110 digital identity wallets being developed by private companiesare often created to manage tickets or payment cards and now allow you to store identity documents, although without full legal validity.
«There are still many job sites open – explains Dragoni – from the identification of value-added credentials to be stored in wallets to the creation of ecosystems digital services and a physical one where it can actually be used, involving private companies and users.”
In Europe, Italy stands out for its positive approach to Eudi Wallet. According to the Observatory, 56% of users said they were very interested, 26% were neutral, and 18% opposed. Nearly one in two (49%) prefer a wallet to store identity documents provided by the Government or by public bodies.
