SICCAR News
What is the UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework?
This framework is the Government’s first attempt at creating a UK wide trust framework: a set of rules, agreements and specifications for everyone who works with digital identity in the UK.
Commercial Opportunities for Blockchain Technologies
Last week our marketing manager Iona Murray participated in the Commercial Opportunities for Blockchain roundtable, organised by Copy House. The session looked at use cases for blockchain technologies for commercial benefit, the challenges facing its adoption and how...
A National Care Service, with equal status to the NHS, free at the point of delivery?
The importance of more effective collaboration with the third sector The Feeley report “Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland”, published in February 2021, proposes radical changes in the way adult social care is delivered. It recommends the continuation...
How SICCAR and Food Train support older people to live well at home
SICCAR, collaborating with Food Train, are developing solutions to reduce food insecurity among older people. Half a million people over sixty-five in the UK are diagnosed with malnutrition, with a further million being at risk. It is a hidden problem, with 93% of...
SICCAR “connects” with Par Equity to secure a £1.3m investment round
Scotland-based SICCAR, previously Wallet Services, connect organisations with reliable, protected data. The investment will strengthen its product development and customer teams as the company builds on its success in two industry sectors. SICCAR aim to empower...
Special Announcement from SICCAR’s CEO
2020 has been an uncertain period for us all. As we get used to the new normal, we wanted to take the opportunity to share with you all our new normal.Why?SICCAR is old scot’s for sure and trusted. With our mission to connect and protect business and society, we think...
The basics of blockchain for non-techies
There has been a lot of hype around blockchain technology, but what actually is it and what can it do? About blockchain Blockchain is classed as a distributed ledger technology - there are a number of these, but most people (myself included) have only heard of...
SICCAR for cross-organisation collaboration
SICCAR aims is to connect and protect business and society.SICCAR enables organisations to share sensitive data through one trustworthy digital platform. Our platform addresses data sharing problems during interactions between organisations and supply chains as well...
Distributed citizen identity and the path to COVID recovery
For more than 400 years, since the setting up of bodies such as Registers of Scotland, governments have been trusted to manage our data – benefitting both citizens and businesses. These public registers record people’s key life events, from the birth of their children...
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