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I flew here from New York City and to get here I calculate that I had to show some form of identification 25 times to board an airplane to enter Morocco to check into my hotel and so on fortunately for me when I was born in California about 30 years ago my parents registered my birth in the vital records system of Alameda County and as a result I have a birth certificate a passport a driver's license a bank account credit cards and a health insurance card each one of those documents was useful in some way to get me into this room today each one of these documents demonstrates that I am who I say I am you all probably have a similar portfolio of documents but imagine that those documents were stolen lost destroyed or disowned by the issuing authority or imagine that the issuing authority a Country Estate a government agency itself disappeared and what if you'd never had a birth certificate a passport a national ID card a driver's license nothing to prove that you are you what would you do for more than 1 billion people this is their situation every day let me repeat that a billion of our fellow global citizens aren't able to prove their identity because they lack any recognized ID that's one seventh of the world's population that means that 1 in 7 people have no way of proving who they are outside of their local communities in effect they are invisible now the ability to prove who you are with certainty and in a manner that's recognized and trusted by institutions and by governments is a fundamental prerequisite to accessing even the most basic services if you can't prove who you are you have limited access to health care to education to other social programs your ability to move across borders to vote to enroll in school taxes bank account is limited or non-existent what's more women and children are at a greater risk of being victims of human trafficking so whatever is your most urgent concern refugees economic inequality human trafficking financial inclusion universal health care global education I could go on whatever it is you care about identity indeed the UN estimates that 17 of the 17 sustainable development goals cannot be met without first closing the identity gap even more fundamentally identity is a human right article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law let me stress that everyone everywhere there is dignity there is opportunity in being able to prove your identity this I'm told is the word crisis in Chinese I've also been told that the characters individually represent danger and opportunity the spirit of full disclosure I don't speak nor write Chinese and there's some controversy as to whether this is in fact a correct translation nonetheless I think the maxim itself as usual is useful...