Hawiya Digital Palestine Identity
Hawiya is the sovereign identity service of Digital Palestine. One account, held by the person it belongs to, recognised across every Palestinian digital service, and hosted under jurisdiction we control.
Hawiya is an identity provider. People register once and use that single identity to sign in to independent services. It begins as an internet identity for vetted partners over open standards, and grows toward a high-assurance citizen identity. Every other part of the platform binds to it, so it is built first, sovereign and standalone.
A durable identifier issued once and carried for life. Services depend only on the public keys and the subject, never on a private database.
OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0, the same protocols the wider internet uses. Any service can integrate without a custom contract.
Verification is not a switch a person flips. It is assembled from attestations issued by institutions, communities, and the state.
The choices below are not features. They are commitments about who controls the identity of a people, and they are made at the foundation so nothing above has to revisit them.
Self-hosted on European-jurisdiction infrastructure, away from companies whose home law could compel disclosure. Identity is the crown jewel, so it becomes sovereign first.
Trust is a graph of signed evidence, not a self-declared tier. Issuers vouch, verifiers check, and the holder carries the result.
Every algorithm is named and rotatable. The path to post-quantum signatures and key exchange is open, with no primitive hard-wired.
Every authentication, consent, and privileged action is written to a tamper-evident, hash-chained log built once and reused across the platform.
Passkeys and device-bound credentials, so the server never holds the secret that proves who you are. A foundation for private, coercion-resistant services later.
Relying parties integrate against a single, stable identity contract. New services join without anyone re-integrating.
A person registers and holds their identity. Institutions and communities issue attestations about them. Services ask Hawiya to confirm who the person is and what has been attested, and receive only what the person consents to share.
sign in with Digital Palestine IDHawiya is being built in the open as the first component of the wider Digital Palestine platform. The authentication core is live in a development environment today.
Part of the Digital Palestine ecosystem