Digital identity service providers are an evolutionary expansion of the e-identity ecosystem. The goal of this report is to identify the risks in e-identity and find balanced solutions. More particularly, the report focuses on an analysis of the following points:

• Trusting the electronic identity;
• Identifying the internet challenges on the identification process;
• The fragmentation that could emerge out of the level of trust;
• An overview of the global e-identity trends;
• Proposed three generations of e-identity solutions; and
• Identifying the e-identity landscape through the digital identity service providers.