Even today, many government offices, hospitals, and health facilities in Japan still rely heavily on paper records instead of digital systems. A solution to combating loss of records is to digitize, however, just digitizing data is not enough if the server where data is stored is also lost in the catastrophe.
Decentralized data storage
While Japanese society is undergoing digital transformation, with almost 79% of the population having a national digital ID via the MyNumber system, it is not digitally anchored to a centralized public health system.
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One reason for this is that many Japanese are often treated by private clinics and hospitals, making it hard for them to share information digitally between them due to privacy and different IT infrastructure.
One way to solve this could be to introduce decentralized data storage, where data would be stored on various sites/regions avoiding multiple data storages to be hit simultaneously.
This situation would make a lot of sense for a larger set of institutions, such as a group of affiliated hospitals. But this does not solve the issue of sharing data between various entities, especially when it comes to the privacy of the individual's data.
At Partisia we have been specializing in ensuring the privacy of citizens' confidential data, while being able to give consent and transparently sharing it between institutions and entities via The Partisia Platform.
Keeping data private, yet accessible
Losing access to essential personal data, especially information that spans back years and plays a critical role in daily lives, can severely hinder disaster recovery efforts, and has a huge impact on a whole society, both from a private and a business point-of-view.
Via Partisia Platform we offer private decentralized networks, with clusters of banks, health, and insurance institutions that can share data among each other. Even affiliated consortiums or clusters of institutions with same owners will have to have a digital system of tracking who access what data, and if there has been given consent to access this data. Especially, by the individual themselves, so individuals are guaranteed that their data is not infringed.
The Partisia Platform offers a set of tools, called MyData Activation, consisting of a mix of Decentralized Identities, consent modules, and storage of transactions on a private blockchain network between selected actors, where access and rules of engagement can be agreed on via smart contracts.
Central to this is Decentralized Identities of individuals can be given and shared among a consortium of actors (health, financial, insurance, etc), which then can be connected to the individual being able to consent when data is shared between the actors.
On top of this there will be a transparency layer with all transactions being stored on a private network of blockchain nodes, ensuring that all transactions of data will be stored and remain immutable.
Therefore, it can always be tracked which entity or institution has accessed what data, and the individual will still be able to control their own data and give consent of it being shared via their wallet on their device.
Often the information of the various entities, health, insurance and financial records, and the interaction between them will be crucial in order to get victims' lives back on track to a normal everyday life.
Such information clusters and ways of sharing data confidentially will make societies, like Japan, who are highly exposed to natural disasters more disaster resilient and in the end be able to help the individual.
How does this benefit disaster response during events like earthquakes or other emergencies?
With a decentralized identity solution, disaster recovery centers, hospitals, and insurance companies gain reliable access to critical information that might otherwise be inaccessible under current systems. Individuals present information about themself, not just authentication, they are rather doing verifiable presentation of their data, which others can verify and use. For a disaster environment, this data is decentralized and DID is used for sharing is, issuing to the individual and verification of the data - so it is the whole MyData solution.
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Our Platform is built on the advanced technologies behind Multi-Party Computation and blockchain. Which makes unauthorized access technically impossible for intruders.
Imagine a world where we could compute all the data that’s available worldwide. This is the vision driving the future of a decentralized data network, starting with digital identity wallets and DID solutions. The vision is to transform this into an entire landscape of a decentralized data economy.
In this scenario personal data becomes part of a larger, secure network that prioritizes privacy and user control. At its core lies a system of data sharing and federated AI that transform the way that decisions are made - decisions that are purely data-driven, efficient and securely distributed across networks.
Quantum computing, the new player in the game, is set to accelerate this revolution.
With the unprecedented power that quantum will bring to the table (combined with the reach of federated AI, we can securely analyze data across multiple data sources, placed on different nodes) we’re making computation of a global scale possible.
Quantum and AI will play a huge part in advancing confidential computing, where encrypted data can be analyzed while still keeping it confidential, ensuring security is never compromised.
Learn more about how confidential computing and these advanced technologies are reshaping the way we use data by following this link.
