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The “Stakeholder Map” sets out the roles of stakeholders who comprise and interoperate in the YuTru digital ecosystem, to provide digital, natural, and legal persons in PNG with a digital identity.

A digital identity can be used online and offline. It can be carried in a mobile phone, stored in “the cloud”, or worn in a wristband.

Participants in the YuTru digital ecosystem include issuers, attributers, and reliers.

Issuers register their customers on the YuTru platform. Like a bank issues a credit card, an issuer in the YuTru scheme issues the digital identity to a customer. Customers cannot be registered twice because the platform uses biometrics, rather than biographic details, to detect a person attempting to register more than once with alternative names.

Attributers link information to the digital identity of a customer and store that information on the platform so customers can manage and control access to it. Attributers avoid the risk of holding customer data in their own backend systems which are often not designed with data protection and consumer privacy at the front of mind.

Reliers use the platform to verify identity claims made by individuals who present a credential of one form of another, or in the case of “naked” verification and identification, simply offer a biometric.

Access to information on the platform is strictly controlled and audited. Although the scheme is open to join, use of the platform’s identification and verification services is governed by the scheme rules and even staff of the Digital Identification Bureau do not have access to the personally identifiable information managed by the platform.

The “Stakeholder Map” can be downloaded from our document archive.