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Tool 1: The DISTF Readiness Assessment: This is a strategic “health check.” It provides a structured set of questions to help you conduct a landscape scan of your agency’s current maturity. It is designed to help you get a clear, honest picture of your readiness across three critical domains.

Tool 2: The Priority Use Case Sanity Check: This is a rational decision-making framework. Once you have ideas for potential initiatives, this tool provides a consistent and evidence-based method for evaluating and prioritising them.

Tool 3: The Public Sector Digital Identity Strategy Canvas: This is your synthesis tool. Once you understand your readiness and have validated a priority use case, this canvas helps you bring everything together into a single, coherent, one-page strategic plan.

A set of tools to help you formulate your strategy – useful and easy-to-apply Canvases.

A simple-to understand look at the Regulatory Journey and Enabling Trusted Digital Identity in New Zealand.

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We combine decades of biometric innovation with deep industry understanding to bring you world-class identity services tailored to the needs of New Zealand. NEC is the only vendor recognised for leadership in biometric performance (NIST), offering cloud delivery and ethical identity design.
 
Our solutions are built to support:
AML/CTF & KYC compliance
Digital onboarding
Fraud prevention
Seamless biometric authentication
Reusable identity credentials
Privacy-first, user-controlled experiences

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Confidence at the moment it matters most.
Establish trust in your customers, citizens, or users with advanced identity verification that meets your compliance and user experience goals.
 
Key features:
Biometric face matching with passive liveness detection
Document validation with tampering & forgery detection (14,000+ document templates)
Data verification against government and authoritative databases
Compliance with ICAO, ISO 30107-3 Level 2 PAD, and more
Protection from injection attacks, deepfakes, and identity fraud
 
Ideal for onboarding, AML compliance, account recovery, fraud detection, and secure remote services.

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A modular, cloud-native identity platform
Our Identity Cloud is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) delivering biometric verification, credential management, and access control capabilities — all via API and open standards. Built for compliance, security, and ease of integration, it enables fast adoption and future scalability.
 
Capabilities include:
Identity Proofing (1:N)
Identity Verification (1:1)
Digital Credential Issuance & Management
Biometric Authentication
Identity Access Management (IDAM)
 
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