Citizen App
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| Citizen App | |
|---|---|
 Know Your Customer | |
| Team Organizations | Dataswift Urban Systems |
| Point of Contact | Tyler Weir Irene Ng |
| Participating Municipalities | Cambridge England |
| Sectors | Cybersecurity and Privacy Data Smart Region |
| Status | Implemented |
| Last Updated | November 24, 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 from this app
- A citizen app to showcase self credentialisation and KYC (Dataswift)
- A PDA Dashboard for Personal Data Servers (Dataswift)
Events
5th Annual Symposium of the Digital Person
Activity timeline
- 1 Feb: Citizen App code open sourced by Dataswift for initial collaboration
- 1 Feb: Urban Systems join Citizen App project to assist with documentation
- 1 Feb: XLab/Case Western Reserve University students join the project group
- 10 Feb: Basic documentation ready for Citizen App project by Urban Systems.
- 10 Feb: Information to developers community that the project is now open for collaboration
- 16 Feb: Urban Systems CEO, Wilfred Pinfold, Dataswift CEO Irene Ng have a pre-Symposium fireside chat on the Citizen App, its importance, its purpose and how to get involved.
- 21 Feb: Blogpost on citizen app with video of fireside chat and the Citizen app manifesto is out
- 1 Mar: Citizen app project official launch at the 5th Symposium of the Digital Person