Amigos RAC offers its community a service app with blockchain-based digital identity

The members of Amigos of the Royal Academy of Sciences (Amigos RAC) community already have an app to access the institution’s services, identify themselves and facilitate communication with other members, supported by Web 3.0, with the collaboration of SmartDegrees.

The app valorizes Amigos RAC and facilitates the management of the community, by identifying its members, promoting communications between them and the institution, and giving access to the following services:

• Registration and access to courses and events of Amigos RAC
• Participation in open or personalized debate groups of the community science news, inaugurations and lectures
• Subscription to newsletter
• Payment of the donation and access to the associated certificate
• Suggestions to the institution
• Identification card, with blockchain token and QR code.

The app uses blockchain, innovative technology that guarantees the inviolability of information through smart contracts, managed in a network programmed by a voting algorithm. The information uses the Verifiable Credentials and European Self-Sovereign Identity Framework (ESSIF) standards of the European Commission, through its European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) initiative, the adoption of which will allow the use of digital identity on other platforms and interoperation with other European institutions. It highlights the sovereign nature of digital identity, which blockchain allows, in which the user is the owner of their data and is the one who manages it.

 

SmartDegrees, in addition to developing the app, operates it and registers the digital identity on its own blockchain platform (Quorum, the enterprise evolution of Ethereum), as well as on the public permissioned blockchain platform Alastria, to provide transparency and also interoperability with other platforms.

The Royal Academy of Mathematics, Physical and Natural Sciences promotes the study, research and social dissemination of the Mathematical, Physical, Chemical, Geological and Biological Sciences and their applications and promotes support for them. The Amigos RAC programme, associated with the Royal Academy of Sciences Foundation of Spain (FRACE), supports scientific progress in Spain and at the Royal Academy of Sciences, involving citizens in the scientific process, making science an accessible and collaborative activity. Amigos RAC welcomes anyone interested in this mission, through its community.