Digital Identity for Special Investigating Officers

Sphereon and partners win Ministry of Justice and Security challenge

We’re very pleased to announce that we — together with our partners Novatore and Plamo — won a contract based on a challenge that was posted by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security.

We were awarded a contract to build a solution for their Justis department to enable Special Investigators to identify themselves in a privacy-preserving manner and to enable the public to easily verify the authenticity of their identity and the authorization to perform their tasks.

A digital identification tools for special investigating officers to perform their duty more safely, efficiently and flexibly, whilst securing their privacy

Currently, special investigating officers only have a physical ID card that they can show to verify their authority.

This, however, is problematic: a physical ID is more sensitive to fraud as it can be used after the expiration period, others can use it when it is stolen, or otherwise fraudulently acquired.
Furthermore, the physical ID has all the officer’s identity data, which has led to stalking and other unwanted behavior from third parties.

Our solution digitizes the identities of special investigating officers and make the identity verification process secure, private and easy to use.

The basis of our solution is a modern, mobile platform with a number of functions:

Creating a Digital Identity to the Special Investigator after screening by Justis.
Issuing Verifiable Credentials which holds all the information of the Special Investigator, digitally signed by Justis.
Providing a mobile application for the Special Investigator to hold their credentials.
Enabling the Special Investigator to selectively disclose information to the public and officials.
Providing the public with a method to easily verify the authenticity of the disclosed information.

The underlying technology used are those for Self-Sovereign Identities. Adherence to the open W3C standards for Decentralized Identifiers (DID) and Verifiable Credentials (VC) will provide interoperability between this solution and other Identity (Wallet) solutions.

As we say so often, co-creation was key in winning this contract. We are convinced that without the knowledge and experience of our partners, such as Novatore and Plamo, Sphereon would not be as successful as we are today.

About Novatore

Specialists in the field of information logistics with more than 25 years of experience and well versed in government in general and in the judiciary domain in particular.

About Plamo

Plamo are experienced software developers and offer a Mobile App Platform for developers, with powerful and a scalable backend in minutes.

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Digital Identity for Special Investigating Officers

Sphereon and partners win Ministry of Justice and Security challenge

As we say so often, co-creation was key in winning this contract. We are convinced that without the knowledge and experience of our partners, such as Novatore and Plamo, Sphereon would not be as successful as we are today.

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