The EU Digital Wallet Consortium (EWC) is a joint effort to successfully leverage the benefits of the proposed EU digital identity in the form of Digital Travel Credentials across the Member States. The EWC intends to build on the Reference Wallet Application to enable a use case focused on Digital Travel Credentials. We expect this use case to necessitate the use of multiple Electronic Attestation of Attributes and Credentials as well as the involvement of both the private sector and the public sector.
The EUDI Wallet Consortium (EWC) is focused on a high volume, high adoption use case that is central to peoples’ online lives.
Research consistently shows that, after social media and messaging, eCommerce is the most important use of the internet for Europeans.
To address this, the EWC will pilot travel use cases, demonstrating how eIDAS will transform the safety, security and convenience of eCommerce within a context that is familiar to huge numbers of European citizens. By using travel as an example, we will demonstrate how eIDAS will revolutionise many other eCommerce use cases, capturing the imagination of citizens, businesses and governments.
The EWC will create two common building blocks that will support the travel use case. The first is payments and the second is organizational digital identity (“ODI”).
Using the EUDI wallet for payments will be a major step forward in facilitating secure eCommerce for all parties. ODI is just as vital, providing reassurance to people, businesses and governments that they are dealing with the right organization, not a scammer.
These building blocks will be made available to all other pilot consortia.
The EU Digital Identity Wallet is a collaboration between the EU institutions and the Member States. Member states will be legally obligated to provide a wallet to all citizens, residents, and businesses by 2026.
The wallets will be a secure and easy way to prove who you are when accessing digital services, as well as store and share important digital documents about yourself. Privacy will always be respected; you control what data is shared and who has access to it.
Head to the European Commission’s EU Digital Identity Wallet website to learn more about the project; including its benefits and how the wallet will work, details on the regulation behind the project, info on the Large Scale Pilot projects test-driving the wallets, and the technical specifications making it all possible, plus more.
The EWC consists of private and public organisations that work in the large scale pilots on the digital identity wallets. The EWC focuses on wallets for travel, payments and legal persons.