Today it was announced that a consortium led by LG CNS has won a government contract for a mobile driver’s license that uses decentralized identity (DID) technology. The mobile driver’s license will be a digital national identity credential based on a driver’s license issued by the National Police Agency. It is equivalent to the existing plastic driver’s licenses and plans to launch by year’s end.
While this certainly isn’t the first national digital identity – for example, Estonia has had one for years and uses blockchain – it may be the first national identity based on DID technology and blockchain.
The other consortium partners are Sysone and Raon Secure, a founder of the DID Alliance and the OmniOne blockchain.
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