This project is aims at connecting academia and Web3 to better understand the opportunities and risks of decentralised identity in small places, to benefit of policy makers and populations in small jurisdictions.

Posing the question *how the specific characteristics of small jurisdictions influence their procurement processes for digital infrastructure?* is relevant because there is a widening gap between small islands' ambitious plans of digitisation and the reality of digital ID. 

Over the course of the next three years the research concludes by defining the role of digital identification for access to government services for facilitating digital statehood and citizenship, documenting the implementation and operation of innovative digital infrastructure in small jurisdictions, and identifying their limitations.