external life context

Definition

Other: The world outside the digital identity ecosystem including the physical and natural world, other people, organisations or things. The harms experienced in the external life context are indirect harms. Note that a digital identity ecosystem of which a party is not a member is a part of the external life context.

Purpose

Distinguish from other contexts in the human harms framework. The opposite of internal life context.

Criterion

The entities in the external life context are not represented with a digital identity in the digital identity ecosystem that the harmed party belongs to.

Examples

India’s Aadhar system is part of the external life context for most citizens of Canada.

Related concepts

• internal life context
• indirect harm

Tags

#harmstf