The government transportation department in the city of Austin, Texas partnered with nonprofit Foundation to develop a more interoperable ecosystem. The Austin Transportation Twitter account on the partnership on April 25.
The tweet contained a to an — which took place on April 29 — featuring Dominik Schiener, co-founder of the Foundation, and local authority holders delineating the scope of the partnership.
During the meeting, the speakers describe their visions of a system in which every transit system can interact with the same payment app and a single digital identity. The speakers also suggest that this solution can be realized with ’s . Schiener stated that the only way to obtain such a frictionless and open value exchange system is to have a common, widely adopted standard.
As Cointelegraph earlier this week, car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover will use ’s distributed to reward drivers with for data reporting.
Also, in mid- April, and internet of things () firm Evrythng a partnership to combine and apply their distributed and IoT technologies to provide greater transparency for consumer goods supply chains.
Published at Wed, 01 May 2019 17:14:51 +0000
