About Yivi
Yivi stands for ‘Your digital life’ and you pronounce it as Yivi.
Yivi was developed by SIDN. You might not be familiar with that name, but you probably do know a website that ends with .nl. Well, every time you visit such a website, SIDN makes sure you end up in the right place. They’ve been doing this for more than 25 years, about 2 billion times a day. And here’s the best part: SIDN is a non-profit organisation. They’re not in it to make money. It’s about everyone being able to use Yivi. For confidence online.
The development of Yivi
The Yivi app is the successor to the IRMA app. IRMA was developed by Bart Jacobs, professor of security, privacy and online identity at Radboud University in Nijmegen and chairman of the Privacy by Design Foundation. In September 2019, our collaboration with SIDN began with the company taking over responsibility for managing IRMA’s backbone, enabling us to ensure the technology’s essential continuity and availability. SIDN provided 5 years to build the brand and continue developing the app and backbone. We have since set in motion that Privacy by Design foundation will take over the app and infrastructure again in mid-2024.
Our mission statement
Internet users are asked to share privacy-sensitive data too often and often share more information than necessary. This can and should be done differently. We believe that developing simple, privacy-friendly and secure solutions for online identification contributes to the protection of privacy and identity and optimal use of the Internet. And thus contribute to our mission for a promising and carefree digital existence for everyone.