A powerful, portable, privacy-preserving way to share and reuse authenticated data using Verifiable Credentials that saves farmers time, money, and tedium, while connecting stakeholders and unlocking value across the agriculture sector
SEATTLE, Nov. 6, 2024: With the launch of Indicio Proven® Digital Farming, authenticated data can now be shared instantly and reused endlessly across the agriculture value chain — suppliers, government agencies, financial services, and vendors —all while maintaining the farmer’s ownership of their data.
Farming is data-intensive work, with multiple data sources, and regulatory, and market requirements. Each hour spent on data management takes farmers away from farming — with a measurable economic cost. To meet the challenges of data management in agriculture, Indicio developed a flexible and scalable ecosystem solution using Verifiable Credentials and decentralized identity.
With a Verifiable Credential, a farmer can hold and manage authoritative, certified farm data from their phone and share it seamlessly with other stakeholders in the agricultural value chain all while maintaining data privacy and protection.
It’s an easy-to-implement solution that ensures farmers fully own their data. It eliminates the need for this data to be stored by third parties in order to be authenticated. Thanks to cryptography, the data shared from a credential cannot be tampered with — and the credential origin is always known.
This means that data can be reused over and over again with the absolute certainty that those who need to see it can verify it as authentic. It gives farmers the power to be their own data platforms, while radically simplifying their data management burden.
Benefits
- Farms and farmers hold and own their own data — not third parties.
- Capture authenticated data once in tamper-proof records that can be shared from a phone.
- Consent to share data is built into privacy-by-design tech.
- Connect stakeholders across the agricultural value chain through seamless data sharing and authentication
- Simplify regulatory compliance
- Accelerate access to international markets
- Proven, award-winning success in New Zealand
Award winning
Indicio’s Digital Farming solution was first developed for Trust Alliance New Zealand (TANZ) , a nonprofit farming consortium.
“Being able to quickly share data about their goods or emissions to these key relying parties provided a huge benefit to the farmers, saving them time, creating better connections between them and their customers, and reducing the amount of effort they have to spend filling out the same forms multiple times,” said Sharon Lyon-Mabbet Project Manager at TANZ.
TANZ’s implementation has won a prestigious Constellation Research SuperNova Award for Digital Safety, Governance, Privacy, and Cybersecurity. This is the second time an Indicio customer has won a Constellation Award.
Learn more about the project here.
A simple solution to an annoying and costly problem
“Verifiable Credentials are the perfect data management tool for a sector that relies on connecting multiple data sources with multiple parties for multiple purposes,” said Heather Dahl, CEO of Indicio. “Farmers don’t want to spend hours and hours on data management, sending the same information to multiple agencies, suppliers, and vendors. And now they don’t have to. With Indicio Proven Digital Farming, we have a capture once, reuse often technology that gives farmers full control and ownership over their data. It’s a way to turn data from being an obstacle to being an opportunity to unlock value, because now it’s easy to share authenticated data in a frictionless way with those who need to use it.”
The farmer as their own digital platform
Decentralized identity and Verifiable Credentials allow farmers to hold and share all kinds of tamper-proof data that can be instantly authenticated by relying parties:
- Farm borders
- Farm ownership
- Methane emissions
- Fertilizer application (soil nitrogen levels)
- Pesticide & herbicide usage
- Nutrient run-off
- Water management
- Implementation of food safety practices
- Records for contaminant testing
- Traceability information
Verifying software is simple to use and can be downloaded to a mobile device for instant in-the-field authentication.
What you get with Indicio Proven Digital Farming
We provide a complete solution that contains everything needed to get an entire data sharing ecosystem up and running fast, including digital wallet, mobile SDK, issuing, holding, and verifying software, hosting, support, constant updates, and even certified training. We can handle any customization for specialized use cases, and all our technology is built to meet current and emerging global decentralized identity standards, so you can be confident that your solution will work anywhere.
Indicio is the market-leader in decentralized identity and Verifiable Credential technology and has developed “government grade” digital identity and data sharing solutions for airlines, borders, banking and finance, health, and supply chains.
Learn more about the solution at https://indicio.tech/digital-farming/, or contact our team to discuss ideas you have for a specifc project.
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