European Commission co-funded EWC Large-Scale Pilot Project

I have a clicker here. Hi everyone. Nice to meet you. We are gonna do a very short and speedy presentation. I will do some oversights and then Steph will go down in some details and then we hope to also show you some videos and presentations. So where is the clicker? It's here just to set the, set the stage. We have a highly complicated ecosystem where we work we'll.

You, you are expertise, you probably know most of this, but we are on the, on the lower side of this together with the three other consortias. And we try to give input to the commission, to the member states, to the regulation and the upcoming implementing acts where many of us as myself is also working in the negotiation teams from the respective member states. And of course with the purpose to provide wallets and attestations to the citizens and the companies of Europe. EWC is focused around these three use cases.

Travel, organizational identity, legal, personal identity payments. We are a member, state driven consortia as all of them are coming from Sweden and Finland in this case. And we try to be, have a very large group of private companies involved in this. So it's like a 50 50 of the 83 now participants for these two first years. And our main focus when it comes to the technology is on remote and online use. So we are not so much involved in the proximity use cases, although these will be shown in the videos that's upcoming for the first year. We get a lot of questions on this. What have you done?

How can we see it? When, when will it reach the, the, the public? Most of this will reach the public through the reporting that we are doing to the commission the first one quite soon in June. And then of course in the end. And then we try to, to to ensure that we can have white papers and so on that we can show and, and report in in various tracks. We also of course provide insights and comments to GitHub that Paolo spoke about and to their reference so on. But we have actually done quite a few things.

We have to know of course that we started from scratch basically, where there wasn't really a regulation and no, no A RF and no reference wallets. So we have developed our own wallets. We have wallets in the in in the consortia and we have written and done a lot of things on kind of pit enrollment and so on. Steph would say something more about this in short, I'll also mention the organization that did its identity, the legal person identity and wallet because this is a bit something that's been discussed much today but wasn't from the start.

Really what we are looking at, and this is one of the reasons that the business registers are involved and we have eight of them in our consortia, is the issuance of the legal person wallet, which is mandated by the regulation. And then of course the issues of the legal person identity data, the lpi.

So the pi, most of you have heard of this. It's, it is identification for the natural person, for the legal person. We call it lpi. And this is something that is mostly actually been developed in, in the consortia that we are running.

And to make it a bit more understandable, I hope these are some of the use cases, the business scenarios that we're working on because in all of these scenarios you need a legal person there to make sure that you know how they are to make the, the wallet to wallet ecosystem and the interoperability between them and the learning so far when it comes to this area is that wallet is just a technical component in our infrastructure. And I want to say this very clearly, it's not gonna revolution everything.

It's not gonna put out business systems in in the companies, but it adds on a technical layer that is also regulated and certified, which helps the ecosystem to enable the trust for them. So an identity layer for legal persons to the ecosystem. And we think that this is highly important to do all the things that's part of the use of scenarios of public procurement, KYCK, onboarding of of suppliers and so on.

Steph, Thank you David. Always working.

So again, I work for Jen. We are with this project already from the start and we took the role actually to facilitate the actual piloting and represent the voice of the EU citizen because they are the ones using this E-D-E-U-D-I wallet in the end to get the best learnings out of this pilot, we took a phased approach, meaning that we can learn from using the wallet and and improve it over time during the project. The first phase was all about getting the identity basics right, so issue your PID credential issue your PA passport credential in your wallet and use it.

The second phase will be about increasing the so sophistication, so meaning more credentials into the wallet and use it in broader context use cases. And then finally towards the end of the project, which will end in, in about a year's time, we really want to scale. So we will select a few use cases and really run with thousands of end users to really test it in in real life. So for this first phase, we're about to start the piloting in June actually, so that's really exciting.

We developed five use cases, three about travel, two about payments, one is about automation of filling advanced passenger information when you check in with an airline. So use your UDI wallet for that. Another one is about booking an A ferry ticket and getting your ferry ticket issued into your wallet. And the third one is about age verification when you purchase a ticket for Buddha Castle because you can get some discounts based on what H you are. And then for payments we have two interesting thing as well. They're more focused about secure customer authentication.

We have one with H verification or actually two with H verification. One when buying something online and one when at a vending machine in the second pilot. Towards the end of this year we hope to run it towards the end of the year. We will extend the scope with building in the payment capabilities on top of the travel scenarios and we will also look at, for example, using biometrics when you cross a cross a border or when you board a plane. And as said, we will scale a few selected ones in the end. So that's where we're heading.

But I would like to point out a few achievements and learnings that we encountered so far. So from a technology perspective, I think we did a great job in making sure that we have some use cases developed and actually already have some wallets that are compliant to the current A RF being interoperable with each other but also working with those usage scenarios. So very good job there. In terms of specifications, one of the important tasks of this large scale pilot is to get the requirements from the market.

So what we do is we try to understand the, the travel domain and the payments domain and we write down our requirements and forms of epics and we hand them in to the commission for the backlog look of the A RF. Then about the use cases, we already identified that most of the value in in our verticals will come from online users, although in person remains important, especially when you think of border crossing and boarding, for example, payments obviously it will be crucial for adoption, but we really need to solve how to embed SEA in the EUDI wallet.

And last but not least, and it was also mentioned already in the keynote this morning we did a end user survey across three con countries in Europe and we already got some interesting findings from that. So it was, it was mentioned the first thing to consider is that not all Europeans are the same. There are significant differences between the countries and they can come from social and cultural attitudes, but also from the digital maturity overall in the country or even previous experiences. For example, our people use to use Apple and Google wallets or EID means in their country.

But taking those differences between countries aside, there were some key findings that are interesting that were across the countries the same. So citizens will need a clear re reason to use this EO DIA wallet. They need to like it, otherwise it'll be very difficult to to get them on board. And one of the good things with this European initiative is the harmonized approach. And so the acceptance across borders, and this is really interesting for, for citizens. The other thing is that the UDI wallet can give citizens reassurance that they can trust the organization they're dealing with.

And that's also a very important part with the work of of ODI, the organizational digital identity. That means that you can verify that you're dealing with a legitimate entity and that builds on trust. There's one more I want to pick out here today. Most citizens do not really understand decentralized identity. The average Joe has no clue what that's about.

So they might be fine with the millions of copies of their identities and credentials that are spread across central databases, but I find it really frightening when they have all those credentials at one place in one app, which is obviously not the case, but that's how it works in their minds. So there's a significant job for us, I think, to, to talk about what it really is and to communicate and educate well about the benefits and make sure they, they do understand it.

So I'll hand over back to you, David, for the two short videos because that demonstrates the work we already done in regards to These cases. Yeah, see if it works. And also while clicking this, we'll speak about organizational data later this evening, so feel free to join in that. So this is from, from some of the participants in, in A WCH verification. You can see here on your right browser on the wallet to, to the left, a person wants to buy a ticket to Buddha console and wants to get reduction due to age. And we'll use this to use this wallet to buy.

You can see here at youth stick it under 27, very, very old youth but still and here are two of the wallets that's part of the consortia. So there's eye grant and the finish member state wallet from DVV. So this user use the DVV wallet logs in, scan the QR code, lot of QR codes in this verify, authenticate, send the data. Also part of this is that the, the user actually isn't showing in the end here how all they actually are Yes, that they are under 2027 to get the reduction. So it's part of the kind of privacy measures that's involved in this. And then let's see if this will, yeah, good.

This is not in Sweden because we can't buy beers in, in stores like this in Sweden, unfortunately. But I think it's Belgium, you have a there, but this combines of course the, the wallet H verification and also payments into this. And of course these are used scenarios that that's been done to, to kind of show what, how it can look like. We think it'll be kind of close to this in the background. We need of course to ensure the, the pigs, the wallets, the issuance and that whole, whole kind of process.

And of on top of that into this, we need to ensure the interoperability between the payment systems. But I think, I think these two videos shows that when it comes to what Steph said to show the public how it could look like, what it can be done, this is something that I think is attracted to most of us. So we are looking forward to corporate this webpage. Feel free to email. We will be back in many different occasions on this conference. Thank you very much.