ASEAN moves toward interoperable digital identity with verifiable credentials

ASEAN members are accelerating efforts to link national digital identity systems using verifiable credentials. Thailand leads with open standards, supporting legislation and strong PKI; a Bangkok event with the World Bank produced a draft cross-border interoperability roadmap.

• Thailand adopted open VC standards, legislation and one of ASEAN's strongest PKI setups
• 16 European countries, 28 US states, India, Japan and Australia pilot the same OpenID and mdoc standards
• Demos verified credentials issued in one country from another within minutes
• Aligning trust frameworks and proprietary vendor systems remains the main hurdle