New Zealand and Australia are looking at trialling passport-less travel in a move that many predict will go global.

The idea of cloud passports is the result of a hipster-style-hackathon held at Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs, which culminated in an X-Factor style audition before Australia's secretary Peter Varghese, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, Assistant Minister Steve Ciobo and Chris Vein from the World Bank.

Earlier this year the call was put out to diplomatic corps and 110 missions around the world for ideas that would radically rethink business as usual.

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More than half the department's staff responded by submitting, voting or commenting on one of the 392 pitches to the "DFAT Ideas challenge".

The top 10 were presented to the quartet of judges who favoured the idea of passport-less travel. Under a cloud passport, a traveller's identity and biometrics data would be stored in a cloud, so passengers would no longer need to carry their passports and risk having them lost or stolen. DFAT says 38,718 passports were registered as lost or stolen in 2014-15, consistent with the 38,689 reported missing the previous year.

New Zealand and Australia are now in discussions about trialling cloud passports. Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop acknowledged there were security requirements which would have to be met in order to store biometrics in the cloud, but told Fairfax Media: "We think it will go global."

The Minister revealed the idea at the InnovationXchange headquarters in Canberra. InnovationXchange is a brainchild of the minister, dreamed up to disrupt the traditional ways bureaucrats distribute the aid budget, which the Coalition has severely cut since coming to office.

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