LAGOS – SITA, the air transport technology firm and IDEMIA Public Security, a leader in digital technologies, biometrics, and security have collaborated to advance interoperability, trust, and data security through a globally recognised Digital Travel Ecosystem.
A statement by the media consultant to SITA, said that this initiative aims to develop an open-to-all trust network that brings together key players in the industry to advance the way passengers travel around the world.
This collaboration, the statement hinted that is focused on driving interoperability across the travel sector, ensuring that travellers’ digital identities are seamlessly recognised and trusted worldwide.
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The statement emphasised that as the travel industry evolves, stakeholders across various sectors – including governments, airports, and airlines – are rapidly adopting digital identities and biometric solutions, creating challenges in maintaining consistency, trust and security across the travel journey.
SITA’s Digital Travel Ecosystem would bring together key players in identity management to provide a solution to these challenges by creating an open, secure, and interoperable framework that ensures a travelers’ digital identity is trusted globally, without the need for direct integrations between issuers and verifiers.
The decentralised nature of the Digital Travel Ecosystem ensures that travellers’ digital identities and personal information remain fully under their control.
At its core is a privacy-by-design approach, developed in partnership with Indicio, which enables the secure global sharing of passengers’ digital credentials.
This approach ensures that travellers are sharing their information only with explicit consent.
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It is only then that this data could be securely shared across various sectors, giving these stakeholders the assurance that the travellers’ digital identity has been verified and issued in real-time.
IDEMIA and SITA’s collaboration would further expand the ecosystem’s reach to new digital travelers and further enable touchpoints driving seamless and trusted end-to-end travel experiences and ultimately leading to improved operational efficiency and reduced complexity for all parties involved.
Commenting on the collaboration, Jeremy Springall, Senior Vice President of Borders at SITA, said that as the travel industry adopts a wide range of digital identity and biometric solutions, ensuring interoperability and trust was key across various sectors.
He added: “With IDEMIA’s collaboration in the Digital Travel Ecosystem, we’re enhancing the ability of stakeholders to trust a travelers’ digital identity across the entire travel journey.
“This collaboration is critical to advancing global standards for privacy, trust, and security, while enabling smoother operations and reducing costs.”
IDEMIA’s involvement would focus on defining, demonstrating and promoting interoperability of biometric and digital systems, ensuring that travellers’ digital identity can be recognised and trusted across various airports, borders, and travel touchpoints.
This collaboration would expand the Digital Travel Ecosystem’s reach, enabling faster passenger processing, enhanced data security, and greater resource optimisation for stakeholders.
“In a world where data privacy concerns are at the forefront, this approach of an interoperable Digital Travel Ecosystem provides a responsible, transparent solution for ensuring how passenger information is shared,” added Tim Ferris, Senior Vice President, Travel & Transport, IDEMIA Public Security.
