Wow, looks pretty nice from the screenshots. Do you have experience using it? Does it work well/do what it claims? I recently moved to Spain, who has a digital identity system, but is a pretty disjointed attempt.
Yes, the project started in February 2017, so it's been a while and the app is very mature and frequently used by many citizens (full disclaimer, I was leading the development of the app and the backend from the beginning until almost two years ago).
Do you know why no other, more open, two factors are being introduced in DigiD auth? I'd rather use my U2F fobs, like I can almost everywhere else. Some people like TOTP.
It's a great app, doesn't do "much" except sending some government news from time to time. It was used a lot during Covid because it showed your negative QR code.
Well, apart from sending highly targeted updates to citizens, it is also used for:
1. receiving payment request for car tickets that you can pay right away with the credit card you saved in the app
2. receiving pending tax payments for local and national taxes that, again you can pay right away in the app
3. it was used for the national cashback program as a mean to enroll citizens, register the payment cards that could be used to accumulate points, setup banking details to get the prizes, etc...
4. distribute several government incentives (e.g. holiday bonus, bonus for young citizens, etc...)
After I left the project, the team was working on implementing a full digital signature solution that could be used to sign official requests to the public administration and they were also working on supporting legally valid communications from the government (vs just informational).
Yeah it works pretty well. Italy also has a digital identity system called SPID which can be used to log in for all governmental services which also works pretty well.