Omise and the Ministry of Informatization of Thailand will develop a digital identification system on the blockchain Omise, the developer of the OmiseGO project, has signed a protocol of understanding with the Ministry of Informatization of Thailand. The parties to the agreement intend to unite their efforts to create a national digital identification system and payment system. CCN writes about this with reference to the Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA).

Omise and Thailand's Ministry of Informatics to develop blockchain-based digital identity system

Omise, the developer of the OmiseGO project, has signed an MOU with the Thai Ministry of Informatization. The parties to the agreement intend to combine their efforts to create a national digital identification system and payment system. About writes this CCN citing Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA).

Thai government plans to use Omise infrastructure to provide digital IDs to its citizens. In this way they intend to fight online fraud and protect consumers. They also expect the new system to make online transactions more convenient, faster and more efficient for the end user..

OmiseGO founder Jun Hasegawa announced an agreement on Twitter, suggesting that Thai residents will soon be able to experience the benefits firsthand blockchain technology.

Although this is undoubtedly important news for the future distributed ledger technologies and the project itself, it is still unclear how the blockchain offered by Omise can scale to the needs of the national identity system. OmiseGo has been working with Ethereum developers for a long time to solve this problem..

On last week OmiseGo took part in the creation of the Ethereum Public Foundation, which will support developers involved in the development of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, including finding solutions for network scaling.

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