Call for Papers: The Digital Policy Trilemma

Digital organizational identity is increasingly central to a wide range of policy objectives – from modernizing public services and enabling safe financial innovation to strengthening digital trade and cross-border activity. It also plays a key role in managing risks such as fraud, cybercrime and identity misuse, while supporting data protection, privacy and emerging use cases such as agentic AI and verifiable data sharing. At the same time, policymakers and market participants face a key challenge: how to design digital identity systems that balance global interoperability with diverse policy priorities and innovation goals.

To address these questions, GLEIF invites experts in digital public policy, economics, law and technology to submit proposals contributing to the future design of digital organizational identity ecosystems.

Call for Papers: “Aligning policy aims for international Digital Organizational Identity infrastructure – is there a digital policy trilemma?”

This Call for Papers invites academics, policymakers and practitioners in digital public policy, economics, law and technology to submit proposals for papers that will inform policy makers, regulators and digital agencies on how to design standards, technology and governance for digital organizational identity and related downstream markets across financial systems, public sector use cases and the broader digital economy.

GLEIF is particularly interested in interdisciplinary contributions that connect:

policy and regulation
economic and market design
technology and data standards

Submissions should provide practical, evidence-based insights that can inform the development of efficient, trusted and globally interoperable identity ecosystems.

What Participants Can Expect

Active contribution to a key global topic: shaping the future of digital organizational identity infrastructure
Opportunity to connect with policy makers, academics and practitioners around the world working on digital identities to bring forward ideas and influence the debate on aligning policy aims
Recognition through awards and review by an international panel of experts; Authors of the ‘best paper’ will be awarded a total prize of EUR 5K; two runners-ups will each receive a prize of EUR 2.5K

International experts will review submissions

The Reviewer of proposals and papers consists of Professor Greg Taylor (Oxford), Dr David Porteous (Integral Governance Solutions), Professor Alexandre de Cornière (Toulouse School of Economics), Professor James Lei (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)), Professor Sean Ennis (University of East Anglia), Benedicte Nolens (BIS Innovation Hub, Hong Kong), Sophia Hasnain (CEO Linked Things ), Goran Vranic (World Bank) and Pavle Avarmovic (Financial Innovation for Impact and Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance)

Submit Your Proposal

You can submit your proposal via email to callforpapers@gleif.org. Deadline for the submission of proposals is June 21, 2026.

The full call for papers and submission form can be found here: