The IOTA Tech for Identification is confirmed by Taipei

Taiwan’s capital city of Taipei is working with the IOTA Foundation in order to launch Tangle – IOTA’s answer to blockchain to its citizen identification plans.

Wei-bin Lee the Department of Information Technology commissioner confirmed that Taipei will be partnering with IOTA and local startup BiiLabs for its Digital Citizen Card project, he told that the effort was one of many proofs-of-concept plans the city had.

Lee told that Taipei will definitely use IOTA’s Tangle ID service for many projects, though he did not develop beyond the Digital Citizen project.

According to CrowdFund Insider, the Digital Citizen Card will act as a tamper-proof identification system, protecting users from identity theft.

Lee described:

“We’ll be starting with related applications for Digital Citizen Card that can be used as a platform. We also seek to boost the authentication and integrity checks for municipality-to-municipality/institution-to-institution data exchange (such as medical records).”

The commissioner also announced that the city is open to other proposals which may help Taipei further develop its goals of becoming a “smart city.” As such, the city will work with any other available technologies. While Taipei is testing IOTA’s tech, the city is not yet using any type of cryptocurrency.

He mentioned that the details of upcoming projects have not yet been discussed but IOTA has been invited to set up an office in Taipei in order to promote future projects.

Meanwhile, the Department of Information Technology, BiiLabs and the foundation will keep discussing project proposals to build proofs of concept. The three groups created a task force to work on the details of these projects.

Lee Included:

“After the PoCs, we will evaluate the results and see where we go from there.”

Recently, Taipei announced that it is turning towards Blockchain Technology to become smart with city goals.