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DIDAS strengthens the Swiss swiyu credential ecosystem: Launchpad promotes applications for verifiable credentials

Rotkreuz, March 10, 2026 – On February 27, 2026, during the Federal Government’s E-ID participation meeting, the Digital Identity & Data Sovereignty Association (DIDAS) together with Digital Administration Switzerland (DVS) was awarded the label “swiyu Orchestrator.”

This recognition underlines the importance of coordinating roles in building the Swiss swiyu ecosystem. swiyu Orchestrators help consolidate requirements from business, government and society and support their implementation in interoperable applications.

With its first initiative, the Launchpad, DIDAS, together with partner organizations, is creating a market-oriented enablement space that supports organizations in building and scaling applications based on the Swiss E-ID as well as other verifiable credentials.

The Launchpad is particularly aimed at businesses and promotes applications that create tangible value for the digital economy based on the swiyu trust infrastructure, free from commercial platform lock-in. It strengthens the understanding of the strategic potential of this Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and the associated trust mechanisms that address key challenges in compliance, efficiency and the development of new business models. Through cross-industry collaboration, new use cases and network effects can emerge.

In building the Launchpad, DIDAS collaborates with various organizations from the Swiss economy. This includes digitalswitzerland, helping to multiply information and implementation initiatives around the trust infrastructure.

Several additional organizations from business and research have already engaged in activities around the ecosystem, including DIDAS members and organizations such as the Migros Federation of Cooperatives, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) and the Hasler Foundation, which already actively support the Launchpad.

DIDAS invites further organizations from business, research and civil society to join as ecosystem contributors and thereby actively enable the practical value of verifiable credentials and trust mechanisms.

The importance of verifiable credentials and trust infrastructures is also reflected in international exchange formats such as the Global Digital Collaboration Conference (globaldigitalcollaboration.org). Representatives from governments, standards organizations, industry, academia and civil society exchange views on concrete applications of wallets, digital identities and verifiable data. DIDAS is a co-organizer of this global initiative.

Quote Daniel Säuberli, President of DIDAS

“With the Swiss E-ID and the swiyu trust infrastructure, electronic credentials create new opportunities for digital interactions and transactions. They provide an instrument to systematically and legally transform paper-based processes into the digital world and further automate them. What matters now is that these possibilities lead to concrete applications with economic and societal value. The Launchpad is a first format that brings together relevant actors to develop them collaboratively.”

Quote Prof. Dr. Tim Weingärtner

Lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) and Vice President of DIDAS

“Identity verification is a core component of many business processes. When operating in digital environments, secure, trustworthy and self-sovereign identity solutions are essential. It is therefore crucial to engage with this topic early on, invest in targeted education and build the digital capabilities needed to confidently handle digital credentials.”

Quote Daniel Gahlinger

Group Chief Digital Officer, Migros Federation of Cooperatives

“Verifiable credentials will change the way we interact with customers, partners and employees. Migros has been involved with DIDAS for three years because a trustworthy ecosystem can only emerge through collaboration. With the Launchpad, we can now advance concrete use cases and test the swiyu trust infrastructure in practice.”

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