The Institutional Diffusion of Digital Identity IT Artifact among Marginalized Communities in Nigeria

The recent engagement of Africans in the enrolment into digital identity scheme has been acknowledged as a requisite for National development. However, the enrolment of such digital identity via institutional diffusion has been problematic and scarcely reported in literature, especially among marginalized communities that African nations are mostly constituted of. Institutional diffusion is a phenomenon that occurs when an IT innovation is widely diffused-in-use, stabilized and taken-for-granted within society and such diffusion is mainly driven by the state. We adopt theories of Archer's (1995) morphogenetic approach (MA), Institutional Isomorphism and diffusion of innovation to develop a research model and critical realism as a philosophical standpoint.