France has not yet introduced a national digital identity wallet but plans to adopt the EUDI Wallet. France has introduced the France Identité app, a government-developed digital identity application designed to simplify interactions with administrative services and enhance secure identity verification. Launched on February 14, 2024, this free application allows users to store their national ID card information on their smartphones, facilitating various procedures more efficiently. [ref]

FranceConnect is a single sign-on platform provided by the French government. It allows users to securely log in to over 1,400 online services (both public and private) using a single set of credentials. This eliminates the need to create multiple accounts for different services. An enhanced version of FranceConnect, called FranceConnect+, is used for more sensitive services, such as those involving financial transactions or highly secure data. It requires stronger identity verification, often through a digital identity like France Identité.

FranceConnect: France is working to integrate its existing national digital identity systems, such as the FranceConnect platform, into the EUDI Wallet framework. FranceConnect is already a widely used digital identity system that allows citizens to access various public services securely.

France, in collaboration with Germany, leads the POTENTIAL consortium, which began work on the EUDI Wallet, with deployment expected by 2025. [ref]

France collaborates with private companies and technology providers to develop and refine the EUDI Wallet. For example:

• IDEMIA, a French multinational specializing in identity technologies, is contributing to the wallet's infrastructure. IDEMIA focuses on secure identity verification, biometric authentication, and pseudonymization to protect user data. [ref]
• iDAKTO, a company enabling secure and sovereign interactions with personal data, is also involved in ensuring the wallet's security and compliance with privacy regulations. [ref]

Some municipalities have entered into agreements with wallet providers and are offering wallet-based solutions for certain credentials to their employees or residents. However, there is as far as we know currently no national wallet initiative outside the EUDI Wallet effort led by the government.

The Agency for Digital Government (Digg) has been designated as the EUDI Wallet provider and is also responsible for establishing the national certification scheme. The directory of relying parties will be maintained by the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS), and some other roles within the national ecosystem have also been assigned.

Digg has initiated the development of a national EUDI Wallet. The aim is to support an open model where private companies may apply to certify their wallets under the Swedish eID scheme. The government-issued wallet will focus on accessibility, inclusiveness, and high security.

Digg is actively participating in the Large Scale Pilots (LSPs) EWC and DC4EU, and will also take part in WE BUILD.

The Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) has been assigned responsibility for providing PID for legal persons. However, the entity responsible for issuing PID for natural persons has not yet been officially designated.

In pilot implementations, a successful authentication at LoA High will trigger a lookup in the Swedish population registry to retrieve PID attributes for natural persons, which are then packaged and issued to the wallet.

Within the LSPs, Digg is issuing PID using SD-JWT and mdoc formats for testing purposes. Sweden is actively seeking cross-border testing opportunities to ensure interoperability of PID issuance and consumption between wallets.

Architecture documents and technical references are not yet publicly available. Work is ongoing to map how the EUDI Wallet can be effectively integrated into Sweden’s existing digital infrastructure. This includes proposals for shared services for attestation issuance, acceptance of the wallet both as an eID and as a credential presentation tool, as well as communication strategies to ensure that public sector stakeholders are informed and prepared.

There are multiple Swedish participants in the LSPs (EWC, DC4EU, and WE BUILD), representing both public and private sector actors. National stakeholder coordination is still in early stages but expected to increase.

Sweden has private eID providers that currently dominate the market, operating at LoA Substantial. Work is ongoing to develop a government-issued eID that meets the LoA High requirements under eIDAS.

GOV.UK Wallet

https://www.gov.uk/wallet

The UK is not contributing to the EUDI Wallet due to its non-EU status. It has been actively developing its own digital identity framework:

• The UK government has introduced the UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF), which provides guidelines for digital identity verification.
• GOV.UK One Login is the UK's new unified digital identity system for accessing public services.
• The UK is collaborating with international digital identity initiatives, but not specifically with the EUDI Wallet.