Brazilian Department of Public Service Management and Innovation in partnership with IIIT-Bangalore
Bangalore: The Brazilian Ministry of Public Service Management and Innovation (MGI) and the Bangalore-based International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-B) have announced a groundbreaking partnership to achieve potential digital transformation social impact. The initiative aims to gradually promote digital government as a digital economy facilitator, leveraging digital public infrastructure (DPI) and digital public goods (DPGS) principles, knowledge and building blocks. The collaboration was formally conducted through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which focused on the implementation and dissemination of the recently signed DPI.
The first effort will cover verifiable rural land wallets for rural landowners and landowners, including documents related to the Brazilian Cadastro Environmental Rural (CAR) system, a key component of the country’s environmental management framework. The project will also cover documents of other registries and agencies related to rural land public policy.
Choices starting with verifiable credentials (VCs) are strategic because they represent the fundamental building blocks of digital trust. They provide a secure, private, standardized, interoperable, agile, machine-automated way to electronically issue, store, share and verify trusted digital credentials and their data, making it an ideal start-up catalyst for the DPI journey.
MGI envisions creating a verifiable credential ecosystem (VC) that seamlessly integrates existing VC infrastructure and digital wallets, such as: Driver’s Digital Wallet (CDT), Digital Diploma, Vaccination Wallet, Gov.br Docts Document Brock Documents Wallet, etc.
This digital innovation will have the potential to provide easy access and control for land-related documents to 7 million rural land owners in Brazil, including automotive certificates, making the seamless sharing of digital certificates and related data with banks or other loan providers. It will also accelerate access to subsidies, protect incentives and other public policy-related transactions, while strengthening certificates, as well as related data, user-centric privacy protection management, secure and agile flows.
In addition, specialized digital wallets can be developed for specific target groups such as fishermen to ensure streamlined access to basic documents of relevant public policies. As infrastructure matures, the scope will be expanded to other sectors, leveraging the support of partners in the non-profit DPI ecosystem in Bangalore, India.
Professor Rajagopalan of IIITB commented on the partnership: “Implementing digitally verifiable certificates will address existing challenges by simplifying the verification process, reducing latency and improving administrative efficiency to address existing challenges, thereby minimizing documentation to minimize risk of startup, and providing a secure system and providing a Type II portfolio. (COSS), seed by the EKSTEP Foundation;
This partnership is an important step towards a dynamic digital public infrastructure aligned with Brazil’s Sustainable Development Goals. By promoting DPI and DPG mindsets and open source solutions, leveraging advanced technologies, MGI aims to contribute to digital government and the digital economy, thereby promoting social impact and benefiting society as a whole.
The Center for Open Society Systems (COSS) of IIIT-B Targets is to promote the adoption of DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure) on a global scale – which explains the Center’s efforts to establish long-term cooperation with the Brazilian government. The joint DPI pilot project with the Brazilian Ministry of Public Services Management and Innovation is intended to simplify and accelerate the process of Brazilians applying for and ensuring that the government obtains rural loans from the government by transitioning from the current unverifiable PDF files to digitally verifiable credentials.
According to Mr. Rogerio Guimaraes, Secretary of Brazil’s National Digital Government, “By integrating verifiable certificates with the Gov.BR platform and our national identity wallet, we are building a safe and inclusive digital foundation.
“Our commitment to digital public infrastructure is beyond the scope of technology.
“The synergy between the government, the national identity wallet and these verifiable credentials can not only enhance data privacy and security, but also drive innovation in the public interest by putting citizens at the center. We have strengthened trust, stimulated a healthier business environment and provided a wider range of rights and services for all.”
“Verified certificates transform digital governance by leveraging VC as the underlying digital public infrastructure (DPI) to ensure trust, security and efficiency,” said Miriam Chaves’ MGI special consultant. “
Similarly, according to the National Minister for Transformation, Mr. Francisco Gaetani, “Digital public infrastructure has become an important part of the rural environmental registry strategy because we want such important registries to be diverse and interoperable, and we believe that DPI’s attitude to rural and environmental data can help us formulate challenges to the global environment.
