Poste Italiane participates in EU-funded projects on digital identity
and payments and eXtended Reality solutions
Poste Italiane participates in the DC4EU project which aims to create and test a scalable and interoperable system among Member States and Stakeholders for the use of the new European digital identity (EUropean Digital Identity Wallet, EUDIW). To this end, several use cases will be developed and tested, involving both the public and private sectors, in different contexts based on an architecture and framework that will have to be aligned with the ARF 2.0 (Architecture and Reference Framework for European Digital Identity) scheme that is currently being published. Poste Italiane is participating in the project by providing its technical and organisational expertise to contribute to the activities of adopting a digital identity solution, analysing and designing the ecosystem for the wallet that will contain the identities, verifying consistency and alignment with the ARF and all related issues emerging from the work of the EU Commissions.
Poste Italiane is actively involved in the NOBID project whose objective is to test one of the main use cases defined by the European Commission in the area of payments, which concerns the authorisation of payments for products and services by the user/wallet owner. To support the payment use case and the broader ambitions of cross-border participation of several member states, the consortium includes national agencies from Norway, Denmark, Italy, Latvia and Iceland, and also tests the payment use case in wallets from Germany.
The NOBID project includes public and private parties, attribute/credential and attestation providers, as well as EU citizens and residents who will test the wallet functionalities. Poste Italiane participates in the project by providing its technical and organisational expertise to ensure the ‘on-boarding’ of users in the Digital Wallet system.
Poste Italiane participates in the SERMAS project, which focuses on the implementation and management of new eXtended Reality systems by providing its technical expertise in the development of methodologies, coordinating the implementation activities of case studies, and participating in the testing and validation of the implemented solutions. Two of the three case studies envisaged in the project will be implemented by Poste Italiane to test XR solutions in assistance services. Through tactile and vocal interactions, the Receptionist Agent will welcome visitors at Poste Italiane’s premises with the aim of providing information and physical access services to the buildings. Instead, a Post Office Agent with user-friendly communication capabilities will be active in post offices to provide information and offer services to users. In this context, participation in the project is of interest to Poste Italiane to test new models of human-machine interaction.