A Digital & Certified Backup to your Vital Documents
MyPass is a secure document storage solution designed to help people store and share IDs and documents digitally
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Owner

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Helper

design for the most vulnerable and you design for everyone.
MyPass brings document accessibility, security & full autonomy to its rightful owner
MyPass is open to all, but with a launch focused on people experiencing homelessness.

Our vision is to help the homeless community regain full control over their identity without the worry of loosing the vital documents they depend on for public services.
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What's the benefit of using MyPass?

Conventional

In-person and impractical, physical documents can only be verified when the client is present.
Traditional Approach
  • Easily lost or damaged
  • Must be shared in person, one person at a time
  • Cannot be duplicated or altered
  • Can be signed, stamped and notarized

With MyPass

Digitally certified and powerfully encrypted, MyPass allows for the distribution of certified documents, allowing for remote verification and shareability.
Mypass Approach
  • Cannot be lost or damaged
  • Can be shared remotely, with multiple parties
  • Cannot be duplicated or altered
  • Can be signed, stamped and notarized
create digital certified copies

Digital Notarization made easy.

MyPass uses verifiable credentials to enable the distribution, verification and notarization of digital documents.

Yours to share

Share files anywhere, anytime.

MyPass tackles one of the biggest barriers to public services: document sharing. Build your network, set permissions and share your files remotely with the service providers you trust.

Never loose access

Multiple ways to sign in.

Remembering passwords isn't for everyone. MyPass features a variety of secure ways to sign into your account and access your files, allowing for advanced account accessibility that goes beyond a username and password.

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Fully adaptable

Customize all features to fit your community's specific needs.

MyPass administrators have the ability to fully customize the MyPass, toggling features and customizing the UI to tailor the application to a variety of contexts and use cases

What's the benefit of using MyPass?

Conventional

In-person and impractical, physical documents can only be verified when the client is present.
Traditional Approach
  • Easily lost or damaged
  • Must be shared in person, one person at a time
  • Cannot be duplicated or altered
  • Can be signed, stamped and notarized

With MyPass

Digitally certified and powerfully encrypted, MyPass allows for the distribution of certified documents, allowing for remote verification and shareability.
Mypass Approach
  • Cannot be lost or damaged
  • Can be shared remotely, with multiple parties
  • Cannot be duplicated or altered
  • Can be signed, stamped and notarized

Three types of users

MyPass has two main user types: Helpers and Owners. Three counting the platform's administrator(s).

Document Owner

Document Owners are the heart of MyPass. These are the users that wish to upload, store and safekeep their own digital documents.

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Document Helper

Document Helpers are case managers, relatives or advocates of Document Owners. They exist to help upload and notarize their documents

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Administrator

MyPass Administrators are the architects of the platform. They adapt the application to the contextual needs of where MyPass exists. Responsibilities include setting up document types, delineating role permissions and toggling features.

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Why Austin?

Researched and Developed with care by
Austin Innovation Office

User tested by AHAC
Austin's Homelessness Advisory Committee

Before development, our prototype was extensively user tested by Austin's Homelessness Advisory Committee. AHAC is a diverse group of individuals that have or are currently experiencing homelessness. With more than 10 members of a diverse age and background AHAC has provided invaluable feedback in creating a comprehensive and accessible platform.

Designed for extensibility
with artifacts for SCALABILITY

Carefully branded and thoroughly researched, MyPass has inspired a myriad of design artifacts including style guides, UX rules and a design criteria for working with a vulnerable population. With a use case tailored specifically for Austin, but designed for extensibility, MyPass offers an adaptable and powerful alternative to ID verification and document distribution.

Built to integrate with Austin's Service Ecosystem
research findings help pave the way

A core pillar of our investigation includes a report on the current service ecosystem and its related integration requirements for service providers in the homeless community.  In Austin, MyPass has a potential use case for accelerating service delivery and avoiding the barriers of loosing and re-acquiring IDs and vital documents.

This project was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneering Ideas in Technology and Health Grant.
A special thank you to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for making all of this possible.
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Our timeline
Currently developing an Minimum Viable Product. Our grant-fund runs until November 2020 and our roadmap is as follows:

Currently in the stage of design and development, the team is working on designing and programming MyPass from scratch. Once we have a fully functional web-based prototype, we will move into polish and testing.

Design &
Development

WE
ARE HERE

JAN - MAY
Polish &
 Testing

Est.
MAR - JUL

JAN - MAY
Sustainability &
Governance

Est.
JUL - OCT

JAN - MAY
Deployment &
Handoff

Est.
OCT - NOV

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