VREV Foundation ties up with Dhiway Networks for I-PIXI - a

blockchain-based Public Digital Infrastructure for Governance

Bengaluru, December 6, 2022: In a move towards building robust public digital

infrastructure using blockchain, Bengaluru based non-profit VREV Foundation and
startup Dhiway Networks have joined hands to
create I-PIXI (India Public Information
eXchange Infrastructure), a Public Digital
Infrastructure (PDI)Hay operates and maintains
India’s first verifiable data exchange platform,
#MARK Studio anchored on the CORD, an
enterprise blockchain infrastructure made in India,
for the world.

Dr Ashwath Narayan C. N., Minister of Higher Education, IT and BT, Science &
Technology, Skill Development, Government of Karnataka today announced the
launch of I–PIXI for the creation of public registries for digital services. In the joint
project, Dhiway will offer its level 1 Blockchain platform CORD as a Public Digital
Infrastructure to VREV Foundation, which will be creating and developing I-PIXI
using the open-source infrastructure.

Announcing the Public Digital Infrastructure initiative, the Hon’ble Minister said
“Karnataka maintains its leadership in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship as
India’s top startup destination. The Government of Karnataka is at the forefront of
Make in India – Made for the world inspired by Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision. We
look forward to organizations like VREV and Dhiway collaborating to create the
digital infrastructure that is required to make citizen’s access to government
policies and programs easier.”

VREV operates in the social policy arena to work alongside the government in
moving its policy intent to action. Public registries like Aadhaar, PAN, and Education
certificates enable real-time verification of information are an essential element of
digital transactions. Applications built on I-PIXI that use the secure credentials of
users can significantly improve ease of governance and access to government
services for all citizens.

The CORD open source based blockchain by Dhiway with an OSI-approved license
(Open-Source Initiative) is a Layer 1 network made in India with a focus on proof of
authority and registry management. The CORD blockchain presents a reliable,
secure, portable and extensible system of verification which is based on
cryptographic security, a tamper-resistant distributed ledger enabling Decentralized
Identifiers (DIDs), Verifiable Credentials (VCs) and content-addressed storage. 
On the occasion, Prof. S Sadagopan, founder of IIIT Bangalore and Chief Mentor
of VREV, said, “India leads the world in Digital governance with large scale
implementations in Aadhaar, UPI and Jan Dhan projects. As India takes over the
Presidency of G20, we have an opportunity to bring in further innovation in
Governance and a Public Digital Infrastructure in this domain is critical to fulfil the
aspirations of a Billion plus Indians.”

“VREV will incubate the Public Digital Infrastructure with an Indian blockchain
CORD, and I-PIXI will be available for all government registries, purposed for
credentials management (Aadhaar / Education / PAN/ etc..). We expect this to
bring all digitized registry data into the public domain, with high standards of
privacy. The next stage of Digitalisation in India is the automation of government
services in the last mile and Web3 based personal control of data allowing the use
of the data with the complete control and approval of the individual”, said KP
Vinod, CEO, VREV Foundation.

“As India takes over the Presidency of G20, and we automate governance at scale,
VREV looks forward to contributing to the global endeavor for digital governance,”
Vinod added.

“Dhiway is excited to be announcing the offering of the CORD blockchain through its
partnership with VREV Foundation to build digital trust registries for Government.
We believe that this opens up many avenues for innovative approaches to
information management and access”, said Satish Mohan, CTO and Co-Founder
of Dhiway. 

I-PIXI – India Public Information eXchange Infrastructure will be the digitalized

information backbone on an Indian Blockchain as a governance infrastructure of
aggregated registries. Founded by technologists with extensive experience in
building open-source projects which scale, Dhiway is committed to working with
open standards in order to drive innovation and help build it on an Indian
blockchain, CORD.

About VREV Foundation: VREV (Pronounced “We Rev”) Foundation is a section 8

company (12A, 80G) that seeks to incubate projects focused on improving
governance leveraging technology. VREV’s key incubation project is to create a
template for an Indian Public Blockchain. The endeavour is to create a first-of-its-
kind Public Digital Infrastructure (PDI) for governance based on Web 3.0 principles.
Visit https://vrevfoundation.org/ 

About Dhiway: Bengaluru-headquartered startup, Dhiway Networks, nurtures and

stewards digitalisation technologies, the open-source way to unlock a more
equitable world. Digitalisation will advance the creation of digital public goods,
enabling organisations to build safe, trusted and inclusive digital public
infrastructure at scale, improving outcomes for people. Dhiway is a founder-
member of the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation that is working to help enable the
trustworthy exchange and verification of data between any two parties on the
Internet. For more information, visit: https://dhiway.com/