Putting The Citizen First: Blockpass ID Lab Awarded Two Citizen-focused Smart City Research Projects

In the past few months, the Blockpass ID Lab at Edinburgh Napier University has been awarded research funding for two smart city projects, and most importantly they put citizen at the centre.

The work at Edinburgh Napier has a long track record of putting the citizen at the core of the design of public sector systems. This includes the creation of the Symphonic Software spin-out. The research work started over a decade ago and aimed to create systems which promoted the rights of the citizen to the ownership and control their data. In fact Symphonic have been so successful and was recently aquired by Ping Identity.

First we received funding under Horizon 2020 as part of DT-GOVERNANCE-05–2020 for:

GLASS — SinGLe sign-on eGovernAnce paradigm based on a distributed file exchange network for Security, transparency, cost effectiveness and truSt

A key focus of GLASS is on trust, security, reproducibility and value generation for all stakeholders: