Indicio, through its partnership with SITA, will participate in the European Union’s APTITUDE Consortium to develop digital travel credentials for the EU Digital Identity Wallet digital wallet. Indicio and SITA developed the world’s first Digital Passport Credential based on International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards for Digital Travel Credentials and successfully combined it with digital credentials following European Union digital identity specifications for seamless international travel.
DUBLIN — June 17, 2025 — Indicio, the global leader in Verifiable Credential technology and decentralized identity infrastructure, is excited to announce that it will participate in APTITUDE, the latest official European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) Large Scale Pilot. APTITUDE will focus specifically on travel and payment within the European Digital Identity Framework.
Through its partnership with SITA, Indicio will contribute to the development of government-issued digital travel credentials based on International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) specifications (DTC Type 2). These credentials will serve as digital passports, enabling preauthorized travel and seamless border crossing.
Working with SITA and Aruba, Indicio previously developed and successfully implemented the world’s first Digital Passport Credential based on ICAO’s DTC Type 1 standard, which involved a passenger deriving a digital credential from their passport and authenticating the biometric image in the passport chip with a liveness check of the passenger.
“The ability to combine authenticated biometrics in a tamper-proof Verifiable Credential is the foundation of “government-grade” digital identity,” said Heather Dahl, CEO of Indicio. “It’s an inflection point where digital identity can be universally trusted. So it’s a really critical step for governments to be able to issue these kinds of credentials directly. As longtime champions of this technology, we are deeply grateful to be able to participate in this world-changing trial through our European partner, SITA. The APTITUDE trial has the potential to help everyone advance to secure, privacy-preserving digital identity and to make travel seamless.”
The world is becoming verifiable
With Gartner Research forecasting that “at least 500 million smartphone users will be regularly making verifiable claims using a digital identity wallet” by 2026, Europe’s implementation of digital wallets and Verifiable Credentials is accelerating global adoption.
The technology is sector spanning, with seamless, secure applications in aviation, hospitality, border security, education, banking and finance, and government services. With Indicio Proven, enterprises and governments have the widest range of credential formats and protocols, a digital wallet SDK, powerful governance software, and ledger and ledgerless support to rapidly implement interoperable Verifiable Credential solutions for seamless data sharing and identity verification.
About Indicio
Indicio is a global leader in Verifiable Credentials, decentralized identity, and digital trust infrastructure. From powering national identity pilots to enabling seamless travel, Indicio helps governments and businesses build data and identity systems that are secure, privacy-preserving, and interoperable across borders and industries.
Contact us today for a demonstration of Indicio’s authenticated biometric identity credentials and to workshop their use for your digital travel or customer account authentication.
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