The Buenos Aires City Government has embarked on a transformative journey by integrating QuarkID into its miBA platform, showcasing a significant leap in decentralized digital identity. This initiative not only enhances privacy and security for citizens but also marks a pivotal moment in digital governance.
The Role of Key Players
Extrimian
Extrimian is a key participant, plus a technical implementer of QuarkID protocol and used its IDConnect product to facilitate the integration of QuarkID into miBA. This effort underscores Extrimian’s commitment to advancing decentralized identity solutions.
Government of Buenos Aires
The Buenos Aires City Government (GCBA) app miBA has been crucial in adopting and integrating digital solutions that improve city management and citizen services, enhancing both efficiency and transparency.
The goal of this initiative is to give 3.6 million residents of Buenos Aires greater control over their personal information.
zkSync
Powered by zkSync, QuarkID leverages advanced zero-knowledge proofs to ensure secure and private blockchain transactions, significantly enhancing data protection on the miBA platform.
IT Rock
IT Rock has played an instrumental role in seamlessly integrating QuarkID with miBA, ensuring that the technological deployment aligns with the city’s needs for digital identity solutions.
QuarkID
As a protocol integrated into miBA, QuarkID stands at the forefront of this initiative, enabling the secure and efficient verification of digital identities across Buenos Aires.
What is the purpose and use of miBA?
miBA is a digital platform by the Government of Buenos Aires that centralizes access to various city services using advanced technologies like blockchain. This platform allows citizens to securely manage documents and services, enhancing privacy and efficiency. The integration of decentralized identity solutions like QuarkID into miBA exemplifies a significant advancement in providing secure and user-focused digital governance.
Expanding Digital Identity in Buenos Aires
This project by the City of Buenos Aires marks a global milestone as the first city to implement decentralized identity technology on a large scale, issuing verifiable credentials to its entire population. This initiative not only advances the digitalization of public services but also sets a new standard in protecting citizens’ data privacy and security.
The integration has expanded to include a variety of 32 verifiable credentials types, such as Birth and Marriage certificates, Student IDs,Gross Income Tax Certificates, Salary Receipts GCBA, Employee Credential GCBA, and more. This expansion not only simplifies the management of personal documents but also enhances the interoperability of digital credentials across various services.
Documentation and Process Integration
This integration process, managed in collaboration with IT Rock and Extrimian, exemplifies a streamlined approach to adopting IDConnect. This process is pivotal for cities and businesses looking to implement similar decentralized identity solutions.
Voices from the Ground
Read some quotes from IT Rock and GCBA representatives that provide personal insights into the project’s impact and their experiences, emphasizing the collaborative effort required to modernize public services.
Extrimian’s CEO, Guillermo Villanueva, shares his thoughts on IDConnect’s role in this integration:
“With Extrimian IDConnect, we are laying the foundations for a more secure, private and self-managed exchange of information, and building a world with more trust and less friction.
Our product facilitated the process of miBA-QuarkID integration by IT Rock thanks to the simplicity of our product and the support of Extrimian’s team.”
From the Secretary of Innovation and Digital Transformation of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires side, Juan Pablo Migliavacca – Director General de Ciudadanía Digital en Secretaría de Innovación y Transformación Digital del GCBA, shares that:
“The implementation of IDConnect was critical to quickly, securely, and efficiently connect our miBA system with the QuarkID protocol. Thanks to this integration, and continued work with the Extrimian team, we simplified and improved citizens’ access to their data in a reliable, transparent, and secure way, in a completely digital, frictionless environment.”
Conclusion
The integration of QuarkID into Buenos Aires’ miBA platform is more than a technological upgrade; It is a strategic enhancement to the city’s digital infrastructure, setting a benchmark for other cities worldwide.
For further details on the decentralized digital identity movement and Extrimian’s solutions, visit our Use Cases page.
This blog post aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the transformative integration of QuarkID with miBA, illustrating the synergy between technology providers and governmental vision in advancing digital identity solutions.
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