TechFlow reports that on July 7, according to an official announcement, SIGN Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bhutan National Digital Identity Company (Bhutan NDI) and the Sierra Leone Ministry of Communications, Technology and Innovation (MoCTI). The three parties will jointly design, develop, and implement Sierra Leone's national digital identity platform.
According to the introduction, the platform is built on open-source technology and W3C-standard Verifiable Credentials, enabling citizens to securely prove and manage their identities while adhering to high standards of privacy, security, and data sovereignty. In terms of division of labor, SIGN Foundation will lead the platform's system design, solution architecture, and technical implementation; Bhutan NDI will contribute its experience in national digital identity architecture and provide a foundational open-source identity framework, drawing on the successful implementation experience of Bhutan's national digital identity project; MoCTI will provide strategic leadership, policy direction, and cross-government agency coordination to support nationwide implementation.
The three parties will also establish a joint working group responsible for supervising implementation, coordinating technical activities, tracking progress, and formulating a phased strategic implementation roadmap.
SIGN Foundation is a global digital infrastructure company that builds sovereign Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for governments and regulated entities worldwide, with five years of production-level deployment experience covering over 50 million people; Bhutan NDI is a subsidiary of Bhutan's sovereign wealth fund Druk Holding & Investment (DHI).
