Via this collaboration, NEC joins SITA’s Digital Journey Ecosystem, an open, interoperable framework that connects numerous techniques for real-time digital id verification. Developed in partnership with Indicio, SITA’s ecosystem eliminates the necessity for direct integrations between issuers and verifiers, simplifying adoption for airports, airways, and governments.
On the core of the ecosystem is the Belief Community, which governs how digital credentials are shared securely world wide. Constructed with a privacy-by-design method, it provides travellers management over their information, together with when and with whom they share their credentials. Robust emphasis on information safety and privateness implies that private data stays protected and within the palms of the traveler.
With 28% of airways and 43% of airports planning to implement biometric id administration options within the subsequent 12 months (SITA Air Transport IT Insights 2024), demand for interoperable techniques is rising. An absence of standardisation has slowed widespread adoption, however the SITA-NEC collaboration addresses this problem via a scalable framework for safe id trade.
“After years of funding, aviation and different journey stakeholders at the moment are seeing the complete potential of digital identities, and the {industry} is gearing as much as scale,” mentioned Jeremy Springall, senior vp of Borders at SITA.
“With NEC’s biometric experience and SITA’s industry-leading footprint of biometric touchpoints world wide, we’re well-positioned to speed up the transformation of Digital Journey worldwide.”
“NEC brings greater than 125 years of innovation and a world observe document in trusted id applied sciences,” mentioned Nanaumi Nagamine, senior director of the DID Division at NEC. “With SITA, we’ve delivered confirmed biometric options at airports world wide, creating safe and seamless journey experiences for hundreds of passengers on daily basis. This expanded collaboration will speed up international adoption and set a brand new commonplace for trusted digital id in journey.”
By addressing longstanding interoperability challenges, the SITA and NEC collaboration will enhance the adoption of digital identities by passengers, serving to the {industry} cut back bottlenecks, enhance safety, and improve the passenger expertise at each touchpoint.
