I wish there was a stronger support from government entities to create free, open-source and openly usable secure distributed identity systems. Having this fall

I wish there was a stronger support from government entities to create free, open-source and openly usable secure distributed identity systems. Having this fall on startups means more of what occurred at keybase.io, where a good product dies because a larger company buys it. Distributed identity is a hard, but not unsolvable problem. Why can't the UK instead invest in open systems for this, where users can determine where their identity lives? Isn't this the point of consent?