The New South Wales Government has partnered with St John Ambulance to trial a digital First Aid certificate as the first “verifiable credential” within the Australian state’s Digital Wallet. Selected first responders, employees, and members will access the Digital First Aid Certificate through the Service NSW app.
The initiative marks the first phase of the NSW Digital ID and Wallet rollout, supported by an AUD $21.4 million budget increase last month.
Participants completing a first aid or CPR course with St John Ambulance NSW will receive their new certifications directly in the Digital Wallet on the Service NSW app. Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government, Jihad Dib, emphasized the convenience and security of the Digital ID and Wallet, which aims to safeguard personal information and simplify everyday transactions.
“We’re simplifying the processes needed to store and share digital identification documents, and the new Digital First Aid Certificate is going to help people across the state, including our hardworking medical professionals,” Dib said. “By securing someone’s identity and documents digitally, forms of identification or qualifications will also be safe when disasters strike and destroy physical copies.”
The digital ID effort also also aims to reduce data breaches by limiting the oversharing of identity documents.
NSW first start trialing the Beta version of its NSW Digital ID a little over a year ago, with testing showing a customer satisfaction score of more than 90 percent. The digital ID uses a selfie-based identity verification process, asking users to submit photos of two more more identity documents, and to take a selfie that is used to match against the ID images. The selfie photo is deleted as soon as the user’s identity is verified.
Source: FSTMedia
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July 3, 2024 – by Cass Kennedy and Alex Perala
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