YuTru Journey
YuTru is a local business, wholly owned in Papua New Guinea for the benefit of Papua New Guineans. It was established in 2018, with the support of the Government of Australia, and an MOU with the Bank of Papua New Guinea. Since then we have been conducting training sessions and building a digital identity trust framework.
We lean towards implementing international standards so that our identity platform and services are not locked into a particular vendor or a particular technology. Standards in computer and IT security, data privacy and protection, biometrics and cloud governance underpin our platform.
YuTru aims to expand financial and social inclusion by making it easier for citizens to access commercial and public services, by providing them with a free digital identity – a YuTru ID. We do this by setting standards, establishing agreements, and specifying and enforcing rules that enable participants to securely manage digital identities in their collective interests with the identity data only accessible to the citizen that owns it.