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New Zealand’s Managed Isolation and Quarantine (“MIQ”) program were keeping records of its staff during the “pandemic” using a JNCTN app. Now, JNCTN-produced software tools are seeking to serve as digital ID verification for staff of other organisations.
JNCTN has partnered with a UK digital ID company Yoti and NEC New Zealand. The JNCTN/NEC partnership integrates JNCTN’s cloud-based solutions within NEC’s biometric authentication technology and processes
Yoti has also partnered with the Scottish Government to provide a digital ID system. At the same time as partnering with Yoti, the Scottish Government partnered with cloud solutions provider Brightsolid.
The parallels between the two countries are not a coincidence.
New Zealand’s Progression Towards Digital Identities
Compulsory managed isolation and quarantine was announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on 9 April 2020, with the program coming into effect for people boarding flights to New Zealand from midnight that day. Anyone entering New Zealand was required to enter MIQ and isolation facilities were opened.
Further reading: Covid-19: A timeline of New Zealand’s MIQ system, 1 News, 3 February 2022
Covid travel restrictions provided the perfect opportunity for the New Zealand government to test a digital ID system within the MIQ program. When JNCTN heard about the government’s plans for MIQ facilities, it knew it had the right tools “to help.” The JNCTN app had been used by StayLive, an industry body for New Zealand’s electricity sector, since 2016 to record workers’ training and competencies.
“With the JNCTN app, there are no more spreadsheets that need to be maintained and uploaded by course administrators. You just scan the app at your course and the information is automatically available in the cloud, then you can scan in on-site straight away,” Jarrod Bowler, Group Manager of Safety and Wellness, Genesis, said. “The app is a digital wallet that contains all workers’ skills, as well as their academic record and licence details.”
For MIQ, JNCTN was responsible for creating “an efficient ecosystem” of credential providers, from trainers to people carrying out staff inductions to vaccination providers and many more, so employee records could be updated and monitored in real time. The next task was creating an individual profile for each worker, giving them access to their identification credentials via a digital wallet. Then, on arriving at work, they could simply scan in via a unique QR code holding all their information.
In all, 16,500 MIQ workers were onboarded into the system, spanning 650 organisations. Between 4,000 and 4,500 people were using it on any given day.
On 10 March 2022, the New Zealand Government announced plans to phase out the MIQ system with all but four of the 32 facilities closed by the end of June. Now, as MIQ ends, JNCTN is seeking potential in digital credentialing:
“It’s challenging the norm, making us think differently about how we help each other get to a better place as an industry with shared data. Digitisation has given us much more effective reporting, highlighting any weaknesses in our system much earlier, shaping our training design and practice. And the MIQ example has shown us how else we could apply it, enabling workers to scan through gates via their phones or cards without any manual processing. That could save our industry huge amounts of time and resources,” [said Bowler].
JNCTN is also excited about the potential for digital credentialing to help job seekers “match” jobs requiring the same skills and training. Employers can also view the digital credentials of their workforces to see who has the skills they need for particular roles and tasks, as well as identify skills gaps across their organisation so they can prepare their teams for the future. For example, in Scotland, schools have replaced student ID cards with smart credentials.
“From construction to creating audit trails, and even enabling customers to confirm that the trades-person turning up at their door has the right tools for the job, there are so many applications,” notes Dan Stemp, Chief Customer Officer, JNCTN.
As MIQ ends, JNCTN seeks potential in digital credentialing, IT Brief, 15 November 2022
A JNCTN/Yoti partnership was announced on 30 June 2020. Robin Tombs is the CEO and co-founded Yoti in 2014 to build a global, consumer-facing digital identity platform.
In August 2020, Tombs the “leading UK digital identity entrepreneur” invested in JNCTN. “His investment takes Yoti’s recently announced strategic partnership with JNCTN another step forward,” JNCTN announced.
The JNCTN Yoti partnership established an international leadership position in the digital identity and credential management sector. It created a single integrated solution that provides a digital credential wallet for businesses and individuals alike. It allows the safe and secure issuing, storing, sharing and revoking of credentials, which are matched to a verified personal ID so an individual can prove their identity and qualifications are genuine.
Leading UK digital identity entrepreneur invests in JNCTN, JNCTN, 25 August 2020
On 6 October 2020, NEC New Zealand announced a biometrics partnership with JNCTN. This partnership enabled JNCTN to integrate its cloud-based solutions within NEC’s biometric authentication technology and processes. A blog post in April 2020 wrote that NEC had singled out the Internet of Things (“IoT”) as a particular challenge for secure credentialing, and biometrics was the way to meet that challenge.
A JNCTN/Yoti partnership was announced on 30 June 2020. Robin Tombs is the CEO and co-founded Yoti in 2014 to build a global, consumer-facing digital identity platform.
In August 2020, Tombs the “leading UK digital identity entrepreneur” invested in JNCTN. “His investment takes Yoti’s recently announced strategic partnership with JNCTN another step forward,” JNCTN announced.
The JNCTN Yoti partnership established an international leadership position in the digital identity and credential management sector. It created a single integrated solution that provides a digital credential wallet for businesses and individuals alike. It allows the safe and secure issuing, storing, sharing and revoking of credentials, which are matched to a verified personal ID so an individual can prove their identity and qualifications are genuine.
Leading UK digital identity entrepreneur invests in JNCTN, JNCTN, 25 August 2020
On 6 October 2020, NEC New Zealand announced a biometrics partnership with JNCTN. This partnership enabled JNCTN to integrate its cloud-based solutions within NEC’s biometric authentication technology and processes. A blog post in April 2020 wrote that NEC had singled out the Internet of Things (“IoT”) as a particular challenge for secure credentialing, and biometrics was the way to meet that challenge.
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