Mydex CIC, in partnership with Scotland’s DHI (Digital Health and Social Care Institute), has been awarded a contract to work with Digital Identity Scotland and two local Scottish public sector organisations in order to develop a prototype to test the technical feasibility and usability of a proposed new ID service.
The news was revealed in a blog published last week by Mike Crockart, Delivery Lead for the Digital Identity Scotland (DIS) Programme, the body leading the work. He notes:
“A reusable Digital Identity service will require the clear understanding, trust, and engagement of users. Our solution will be founded on user-centric principles reducing the need for further aggregation of identity data or growth of new centralised data structures, whether in the public or private sectors.
“It will [also] help solve governmental data-sharing conundrums by placing data that it holds under the control and for the benefit of the individual citizen.
“The last few weeks have seen this vision move into a new phase as we have kicked-off a 10-week prototype to build and test an attribute-led approach to support simple, safe and secure access to public services.”
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The team’s chosen tech vendor partner claims its technology is all about empowering individuals to “manage their lives more effectively through convenient, trustworthy access and control of their personal data and how it is used by them and others”.
In his blog, Crockart reveals that successful meetings last week with the Mydex CIC/ DHI and the programme team, as well as a “useful” workshop with Young Scot to identify potential use cases to be explored in the prototype.
As a result, “A number of ideas were generated, with the frontrunners being to test the use of attributes from a Young Scot National Entitlement Card, held in an attribute store, to enable the opening of a bank account online or to potentially facilitate the university/ college matriculation process. It is important to note we will be using demonstration/ simulation environments and dummy data for the prototype, and we will be testing the experience with real users to inform development.”
Crockart promises in the blog to keep us all updated, so we will continue to track this important national ID programme’s progress and report back when we know more.
