Simplifying the handling of formalities
Together with various partners, we’re working on a solution that will make handling formalities after a person’s death significantly easier. This innovation ensures that important information is stored during one’s lifetime in a personal digital vault, with access authorized to a trusted person. After death, this trusted contact gains access to the vault and can handle the estate smoothly, step by step, and without unnecessary stress. Documents and data that a bank, notary, or funeral director may need, such as a death certificate or certificate of inheritance, are stored directly in the vault. When an organization needs certain information, it submits a data request to the vault manager. That person then only needs to give permission, rather than running around to collect paperwork from multiple sources. An added benefit: there’s always a clear overview of who can access what data, so the person managing the vault stays fully in control at all times.
Collaboration across the chain
Over the past year, Schluss, the RvIG (Dutch identity authority), KNB (Royal Dutch Association of Civil-law Notaries), de Volksbank, cooperative DELA, and Davinci Consulting have worked closely together to develop this innovative solution. Together, they mapped out the entire end-of-life process. By combining their expertise in technology, legal frameworks, user interfaces, data sovereignty, and security, the team created a clickable demo — which has already been tested with a range of users. The next step is to develop this flow into a working prototype, a technical proof of concept in which test data is exchanged between organizations (or their representative endpoints). What’s emerging is a unique chain-wide initiative that includes government bodies, notaries, banks, and insurers, with the customer and their loved ones right at the center.
Many public and private organizations have already shown interest.
Would you like to help make estate settlement easier for families and next of kin? We would love to talk about it. Get in touch with Robert-Jan van Pelt (programma manager DIANA) +31 (0)6 57597161
