Raon Secure Partners with Konyang University Glocal Project Office for Digital Authentication Expansion Beyond Campus

Bae Seokhwan, Head of the Glocal University Project Promotion Team at Konyang University (left), and Lee Jeongah, CEO of Raon Secure, posed for a commemorative photo at the MOU signing ceremony. Photo by Raon Secure

Raon Secure will redesign the authentication system of the Glocal University Project as a digital platform.

AI security and authentication platform company Raon Secure (co-CEOs Lee Soonhyung and Lee Jeongah) announced on the 4th that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Glocal University Project Office at Konyang University (hereinafter Konyang University) for cooperation on a digital identity verification project.

This agreement focuses on integrating Raon Secure's blockchain-based decentralized identity (DID) and information security technologies into the government's Glocal University Project, which aims to foster universities with world-class competitiveness through linkage with local industries.

Through the agreement, Raon Secure plans to build a campus digital authentication platform model that seamlessly connects students' individual learning activities, qualification acquisition, digital authentication, and real-world use, and then expand this model across the Chungnam region.

First, Raon Secure and Konyang University will build and advance a digital-based student competency certification system. They plan to digitize and certify learning histories and outcomes generated not only in regular curricula but also in all extracurricular activities such as clubs, volunteering, and projects, so that these can be linked to external uses such as employment.

They also agreed to establish a digital authentication model that interlinks DID-based student identity verification, electronic certificates, and digital badges. With a single digital identity, students will be able to handle, in a one-stop manner, everything from issuing various certificates on campus to managing learning histories and proving their competencies externally.

For international students residing overseas, Konyang University will issue DID-based preliminary admission certificates and digital student IDs, thereby granting them digital affiliation with the university even before they enter the country. In addition, the convenient benefits of authentication can be broadly provided not only to enrolled students but also to faculty and staff, employees of the university hospital, and citizens in local communities connected to the university.

Raon Secure and Konyang University also agreed to work together on a proof-of-concept project that expands the model built on campus into the wider local community. By discovering talent development and recruitment linkage models in cooperation with local industries and public institutions, they aim to create an innovative ecosystem in which universities, local communities, and industries grow together.

The technological foundation for this collaboration model is Raon Secure's blockchain-based platform series "OmniOne."

Most notably, "OmniOne Digital ID" is a blockchain-based integrated identity and qualification authentication platform that securely manages students' identity information and supports reliable identity verification both on and off campus. This enables digital streamlining of processes ranging from student ID verification to the issuance and submission of various certificates. The Republic of Korea's mobile ID issuance system, which targets 45 million people, is currently built on the OmniOne Digital ID platform.

"OmniOne Badge" is a digital badge platform that certifies and shares learning outcomes such as various degrees, completion records, qualifications, and course completion certificates in an international standard format. It converts learning histories into verifiable competency data to support external uses such as further education and employment. In particular, by accumulating diverse activity records in a standardized format, it allows quantitative management of students' growth and enables them to prove it credibly to external parties when necessary.

Taking into account that the Glocal University Project will be promoted over a 10-year period, Raon Secure will also gradually build a self-sustaining business model based on digital ID at Konyang University. This is to establish a structure that allows the project to continue even after government support ends.

This digital ID is expected to be used as a key means of objectively proving the competencies not only of university members but also of local talent. Furthermore, by linking it with local companies and public institutions, it is expected to become established as a glocal innovation infrastructure.

Raon Secure CEO Lee Jeongah said, "This collaboration will mark a turning point in which universities' learning outcomes are systematized digitally, and authentication evolves from mere 'storage' to 'utilization' on a Web3-based trust infrastructure," adding, "Through ongoing exchanges with universities, we will support research in future core technology fields and contribute to nurturing local talent and spreading an innovation ecosystem centered on the Web3 ecosystem."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.