RaonSecure and Korea Digital Certification Association Appoint K-DID Open Source Advisory Committee and Launch Community Activities

RaonSecure and the Korea Digital Certification Association announced on the 5th that they have appointed an advisory committee for an open-source project aimed at the global expansion of K-DID and have officially started community activities.

IT security and authentication platform company RaonSecure (CEO Lee Soon-hyung, Lee Jung-ah) and the Korea Digital Certification Association (Chairman Lee Ki-hyuk) have appointed the first advisory committee of the ‘DID Open Source Project,’ consisting of about 10 experts in decentralized identity authentication (DID), digital certification, and cybersecurity, and will actively engage in community activities through active exchanges with contributors.

The first advisory committee consists of about 10 recognized experts in decentralized identity authentication (DID), digital certification, and cybersecurity. Professor Yeom Heung-yeol of Soonchunhyang University, who served as the international chair of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector Information Security Study Group (ITU-TSG17), was appointed as the advisory committee chair. Other appointees include Professor Park Soo-yong of Sogang University, Professor Ryu Jae-cheol of Chungnam National University, Professor Jang Hang-bae of Chung-Ang University, Professor Oh Hyun-ok of Hanyang University, Professor Lee Jong-hyuk of Sejong University, Abbie Barbir, Chair of IDTrust, David Lopez, Deputy Minister of the Philippine Department of Information and Communications Technology, Kim Jong-gap, CEO of GDIN, and Dr. Kim Tae-hyung of UN ESCAP, among various other experts.

Earlier, RaonSecure publicly released the source code of its blockchain digital ID platform ‘OmniOne Digital ID’ on GitHub, a global open-source sharing site, at the end of October and started operating the ‘OmniOne Open DID’ project site. This provides developers worldwide with opportunities to contribute to K-DID technology. RaonSecure is leading this project together with the Korea Digital Certification Association. The Korea Digital Certification Association, established in 2019 with the purpose of setting standards for digital certification technology and establishing a global ecosystem, promotes the development of the digital certification industry.

RaonSecure and the Korea Digital Certification Association are also strengthening various contribution activities and active exchanges through offline meetings and online sessions with key contributors of the ‘OmniOne Open DID’ project. Contributors consist of diverse members such as university students, graduate students, researchers, developers, and translators, and anyone who wishes to contribute to the global expansion of K-DID can participate and contribute to the project with their own capabilities. Currently, contributors are actively participating in the GitHub ‘OmniOne Open DID’ project, contributing in various ways such as source code modification, proposing improvements to design documents, and participating in standardization activities.

Lee Soon-hyung, CEO of RaonSecure, said, “This will be an important opportunity to promote the excellence of K-DID technology in the global digital certification field,” adding, “With the full-scale activities of the K-DID open-source advisory committee, we expect to contribute to human society not only through mobile IDs but also through diverse projects utilizing open source.”

Lee Ki-hyuk, Chairman of the Korea Digital Certification Association, said, “K-DID has a high potential to spread globally like K-pop or K-food, and through the expertise of the advisory committee, the DID open-source project will be further developed, and contributors will also raise the project’s level,” adding, “The global expansion of K-DID will be an important opportunity to strengthen South Korea’s leadership in the digital certification field.”

Yeom Heung-yeol, Chair of the Open DID Project Advisory Committee, said, “The Open DID project is a project to internationalize the technology applied to the South Korean government’s mobile ID and to promote the global expansion of K-DID,” adding, “To accelerate the expansion of the K-DID global ecosystem through open source, the advisory committee will spare no expertise and effort.”