€4.8M fund for workable digital credential interoperability

Equity-free funding is being offered for ideas that improve digital credential interoperability between the European Union, Canada and the United States.

The NGI (for next-generation internet) Sargasso and Canada collaboratives goal is to create infrastructure that's secure, trustworthy and open and that is biased against none and universally accessible.

Organizers are looking for unique methods for addressing seven specific topics: trust, sovereignty, digital identity, architecture and renovation, decentralized tech, interoperability and standardization and a new internet commons.

Entrepreneurs have until …

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