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iAM Smart Digital Identity & Single Sign-On

Revision 2026-08-27-claims-and-sources · effective 2026-07-17

Superseded. A later revision exists: 2026-08-27-source-dating →

unreviewed

Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 8 claims and 3 source dossiers.

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Change set

  • add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.
  • add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.
8
of 8 claims mapped
3
source dossiers
2
publication dates recorded
0
archives linked
0
exact locators
0
content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-d7c34dd43580afd0 quantitative
Launched December 2020, iAM Smart is Hong Kong's free digital-identity app giving residents one login and a legally recognised digital signature for over 1,300 government, public and private online services plus e-forms
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The Digital Policy Office page states the platform launched in December 2020 and provides a free digital identity for online government and commercial transactions; the December 2025 release states it gives access to more than 1,300 online services from government, public and private organisations, as well as government e-Forms.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Digital Policy Office, HKSAR (authority)
  2. info.gov.hk press release, 23 Dec 2025 (authority)
Claim 2 clm-389bf8a21a03939f quantitative
every Hong Kong identity card holder aged 11 or above is eligible
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The Digital Policy Office page states all Hong Kong Identity Card holders aged 11 or above are eligible to register.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Digital Policy Office, HKSAR (authority)
Claim 3 clm-04367adca871e741 quantitative
The Digital Policy Office reported registrations passing 4 million in December 2025, with over 180,000 uses a day
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The release of 23 December 2025 announces registered users exceeding 4 million and a recorded daily usage of over 180,000.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. info.gov.hk press release, 23 Dec 2025 (authority)
Claim 4 clm-b485bdeee44df284 quantitative
4M+ registered users, 1,300+ services and over 180,000 daily uses (December 2025, official figures)
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
All three figures come from the 23 December 2025 release.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. info.gov.hk press release, 23 Dec 2025 (authority)
Claim 5 clm-da9eddc14ffa895d quantitative
registrations stood at 3.8 million seven weeks earlier
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The Standard reported on 2 November 2025 that over 3.8 million users had registered, with more than 180,000 interactions daily.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Standard (press)
Claim 6 clm-345dfb7a7200423d quantitative
The department reports more than 4 million registrations and over 180,000 uses a day, and says nothing about how many distinct people are behind the daily figure
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Neither the release nor the press report distinguishes users from uses: the release calls it daily usage, The Standard calls the same figure interactions, and no source gives a count of distinct active people.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. info.gov.hk press release, 23 Dec 2025 (authority)
  2. The Standard (press)
Claim 7 clm-c1076e335cbbffd8 descriptive
the same government runs event booths with on-site sign-up, which makes the registration count partly a measure of its own promotion
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The Standard's report describes government promotion of the app at event booths with on-site registration for citizens.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Standard (press)
Claim 8 clm-01e1ef9d7a1c4e70 quantitative
1,300 is how many services can be reached through the login, not how many anyone reaches
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The release describes the 1,300 as services accessible through iAM Smart; no source reports how many are actually used.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. info.gov.hk press release, 23 Dec 2025 (authority)

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-27-claims-and-sources effective 2026-07-17 · created 2026-08-27

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

Erratum on this revision's envelope. The snapshot, its hash and its permanent link are untouched.

  • createdAt previously read 2026-09-02T21:00:00Z. The batching script that produced this revision advanced createdAt into the future to satisfy the strictly-increasing order the validator requires per entity. The value never recorded a real event; the corrected value is the moment the revision provably existed in the repository. Corrected to 2026-08-27T03:51:38Z on 2026-08-27; evidence: first appears in commit 47fa7f19b8, committed 2026-08-27T03:51:38Z.
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Revision history → Permanent version link → Machine-readable record → Evidence Constitution →
8
of 8 claims mapped
3
source dossiers
2
publication dates recorded
0
archives linked
0
exact locators
0
content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Digital Policy Office, HKSAR
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

3 source dossiers

Digital Policy Office, HKSAR (authority) digitalpolicy.gov.hk · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-247c085908111aad
Publisher
Name not classified · digitalpolicy.gov.hk
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-17
Dossier created
2026-09-02
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

A standing platform page that carries no publication date.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
info.gov.hk press release, 23 Dec 2025 (authority) info.gov.hk · 5 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-481cc0d2c1246587
Publisher
Name not classified · info.gov.hk
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-12-23
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-17
Dossier created
2026-09-02
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Registrations exceed 4 million; 1,300+ services; ~180,000 daily uses; 'single portal'.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
The Standard (press) thestandard.com.hk · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-18edb2966b3d0a43
Publisher
Name not classified · thestandard.com.hk
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-11-02
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-17
Dossier created
2026-09-02
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Independent press tracking user-growth milestones.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.