GENERATIVE IDENTITY

Whenever we contemplate human dignity and well-being, social inclusion and equity, economics, community, education, democratic process, peace and justice, whenever we contemplate many of the sustainable development goals and corresponding targets, we inevitably contemplate the question of human identity in the digital age... The term generative identity is used to refer to research and thinking and designs that prioritise psychological, sociological, and ecological health in their approach to digitalizing human identity. To distinguish the ambition from historical approaches and push home the distinction, we may refer to the digital mediation and augmentation of human identity rather than digital identity... The interdisciplinary working group on generative identity exists to encourage such work and, by corollary, to highlight the innate dangers of approaches to digital identity that do not qualify as generative.