Citizen App

Citizen App
Know Your Customer
Team Organizations	Dataswift TODAQ Grabba
Point of Contact	Tyler Weir Irene Ng
Participating Municipalities	Cambridge England
Sectors	Cybersecurity and Privacy Data Smart Region
Status	Implemented
Last Updated	December 4, 2024

Summary

A new paradigm for Self Sovereign Identity with “Bring your Own” Know-Your-Customer (KYC) through self-credentialisation

History

Originally developed as part of a £385K grant project “Smart Me vs Smart Things”, funded by U.K. Government, this project was codenamed “Rumpel” and was developed into being a PDA Dashboard by Dataswift to enable individuals to view the content of their personal data server (in itself created through a £1.2m “Hub-of-all-things” HAT Microserver project) to enable access and control of their server connections with applications and websites.

Challenges

• Launched an entirely new “bring-your-own” KYC model with partners
• Enable any individual globally to self-credentialise, with government approval, and use those credentials across businesses, dramatically cutting costs and approval time
• Provide an app-agnostic decentralised Universal Identity, with Credentials and Asset Ownership that ensure immutable integrity of assets and transactions
• Enable credentials stored on individuals’ Personal Data Servers to render citizens the legal owners and sole purveyors of their own sensitive information

Solutions

• An open-source citizen app that will showcase self credentialisation and KYC for use by consumer apps
• A PDA Dashboard for Dataswift’s Personal Data Servers