Articles
Apr 21, 2021
Welcoming our ten millionth Yoti app download 🚀
We started out in 2014 with a huge, complex task built around a simple mission – to fix the broken identity system and make it simpler and safer for people to prove who they are. This has been our driving force from day one and will continue to shape how we develop our business and products. It’s our purpose. Yoti has grown from a small team with the goal of putting people’s ID on their phone, to a global identity network verifying people and their ID documents from over 195 countries. This is now backed by
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Mar 25, 2021
African Conservation Challenge: digital identity to foster trusted community engagement
We’re excited to announce the launch of our latest social purpose initiative – an African Conservation Challenge exploring the use of digital identities to help foster authentic, trusted, dignified online dialogue between communities and other stakeholders engaged in conservation across the Southern Africa region. The Challenge is open to individuals and organisations based anywhere in Africa, and comes with a prize of $15,000. Background Historically, rural voices have been either missing or largely ignored in much of the debate and decision making around the management of natural resources, particularly wildlife, in Africa. It is widely
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Mar 19, 2021
Practice guide 81: digital identity verification for conveyancing
On 12 March 2021, Her Majesty’s Land Registry (HMLR) published its first digital identity standard, practice guide 81 (PG81). The standard is aimed at encouraging the use of digital identity to reduce the inconvenience and inconsistency of manually verifying a client’s identity during the homebuying process. Reducing the need for physical document checks performed by non-specialists can mitigate opportunities for fraud, increase convenience and lower costs for all parties involved in the home buying process. The standard follows the draft set of requirements, published in November 2020, which Yoti provided feedback on. Practice guide 81:
Case studies
Feb 22, 2021
How Riley Cillian prioritises user safety with automated age checks
“As a company, we decided that we really wanted to go the extra mile to protect vulnerable children but we didn’t want to compromise on our seamless user experience. Luckily, Yoti’s technology allows us to do both – keep the platform safe with minimum disruption to users.” Florian Ehrbar Head of Trust and Safety Operations at Riley Cillian Riley Cillian is a technology company on a mission to build a global community, enabling people to make connections across cultures, languages and borders. We helped them: Maintain a friction-free onboarding process whilst still safeguarding minors. Carry out millions of
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Feb 22, 2021
How the Improvement Services is digitising public services with Yoti
“Yoti ticks all the boxes when it comes to delivering digital public services. Their app is easy to use and equips citizens with a secure way of proving who they are to gain access to the services that they’re eligible for.” Andrew Campbell Programme Manager of Digital Public Services at the Improvement Service The Improvement Service is the ‘go to’ organisation for local government improvement in Scotland. Their customer online portal myaccount.gov gives citizens access to public services online. We helped them: Streamline the online onboarding process. Deliver identity verification upon registration. Protect accounts with 2-factor biometric authentication.
Case studies
Feb 09, 2021
Digitising the New College Lanarkshire student ID card
“We had already been investigating how to move from plastic, student ID cards to a digital method and then COVID hit and a “nice to have” became a “must have”. Yoti had a ready-made solution and were able to respond quickly and effectively to meet our needs.” Allan Forsyth Head of Information Systems and Development, New College Lanarkshire With more than 15,000 students, New College Lanarkshire is one of the largest colleges in Scotland. We helped them: Digitise their plastic student ID card. Save 70 days of work and £4,000 in consumable costs. Remotely issue students with