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    Trust & Participate

    DIH Product

    Establish secure, verifiable, and compliant digital trust in data ecosystems — with digital identities and credentials for people, organizations, and machines.

    Digital identity · Verifiable Credentials · Gaia-X compliance

    The importance of digital credentials and standards

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    Trust is a fundamental pillar in the digital world, and digital credentials play a crucial role in establishing it. They enable secure validation and verification of identities, memberships, and compliance — processes that once required physical verification but can now be conducted digitally. This shift enhances collaboration in digital ecosystems by making interactions more efficient and trustworthy.

    Self-sovereign identity (SSI) gives individuals full control over their identity data, eliminating the need for third-party providers and ensuring privacy. Additionally, the adoption of standards improves market acceptance and interoperability, fostering a more seamless and secure digital environment.

    Why digital verification matters

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    In an increasingly digital world, trust is the foundation of successful business relationships. Digital verification is the first step in establishing that trust, ensuring that organizations, machines, and services can interact securely and transparently within digital ecosystems.

    By verifying identities and credentials digitally, businesses reduce fraud risks, enhance consumer confidence, and streamline operations through automation. It also enables proof of authenticity and origin for digital assets, safeguarding intellectual property and data integrity. Furthermore, digital verification ensures compliance with regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and LGPD, protecting businesses from legal risks.

    Ultimately, secure digital verification fosters long-term, trust-based business relationships, enabling seamless collaboration and growth in the digital economy.

    What is Trust & Participate?

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    The Trust & Participate product family provides a comprehensive suite of digital identity and credential management services, enabling organizations to establish secure, verifiable, and compliant digital trust in data ecosystems. It ensures seamless identity verification, regulatory compliance, and trusted interactions between businesses, individuals, and machines.

    Digital.ID is an integrated product within T-Systems’ Data Intelligence Hub that ensures secure and sovereign data sharing by providing digital credentials, compliant with the latest standards. This integration enhances trust among participants in data ecosystems, enabling organizations to maintain full control over their shared data. We verify the companies’ information and issue proofs in the form of Verifiable Credentials, compliant to the W3C Specifications. These Verifiable Credentials — your Digital.ID — are digitally signed by our trusted Security Partner, in an eIDAS conform way.

    We have several services available:

    • The Validation Service does the validation of companies’ legal commercial registration numbers and European financial transaction identifiers against our trusted data sources.
    • The Gaia-X Compliance Service GXDCH (Gaia-X Digital Clearing House) hosted by T-Systems Data Intelligence Hub ensures the regulatory compliance to the specifications of Gaia-X Trust Framework 22.10. The Trust Framework describes functional specifications, technical requirements, and software assets necessary to be Gaia-X compliant. We are one of the execution nodes for the compliance validation.
    • Our Credential Management Service — also known as a digital Wallet — allows the creation, storage, and usage of Digital Credentials in a user-friendly manner.
    • The Certificate & Signing Service integrates qualified certificates issued by Trust Service Providers to increase trust in ecosystems. This allows you to issue and sign your own credentials.
    • Our Business Reporting gives you an overview of successful and rejected validations and compliance requests for dataspace operators.
    • With Extensible Conformity we can connect with your preferred Conformity Assessment Bodies, ensuring compliance to industry, ecosystem, or supply-chain specific regulations.

    Why choose Trust & Participate?

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    • Enhanced trust & security — establish verifiable digital identities for people, organizations, and machines.
    • Regulatory compliance — ensure adherence to data protection and identity management regulations.
    • Seamless integration — interoperable with existing digital ecosystems and identity frameworks.
    • Efficiency & automation — reduce manual verification efforts and improve operational efficiency.

    The Trust & Participate product family empowers businesses to build secure digital relationships, ensuring trust, transparency, and compliance in modern digital ecosystems.

    Trusted data sources

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    T-Systems as a Trust Anchor in dataspaces uses the following Trusted Data Sources:

    • VAT ID — for the European member states or Northern Ireland, the VAT Information Exchange System (VIES).
    • EORI — registration and identification of economic operators in the European Union.
    • LEI Code — the Global Legal Entity Identifier (GLEIF) with worldwide coverage.
    • Local Commercial Registration Number — using the licensed OpenCorporates solution.

    Guides

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    Order, request, and manage your Digital.ID credentials with these step-by-step guides:

    • Ordering process — order the Digital.ID product in the Data Intelligence Hub.
    • Getting started — get verified and request your first credentials.
    • Validate your partners — bulk-validate business partners from a CSV upload.
    • My signatures — request, review, and manage your organization signing certificates.
    • Get insights — download reports, review API usage limits, and manage integrations.

    Reference

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    Production documentation: Digital.ID.