PeerPass Foundation Inc. is a California-registered non-profit foundation and humanitarian technology initiative built on a simple belief: every person deserves recognition, dignity, and access to opportunity — regardless of their paperwork, birthplace, or circumstances. Millions worldwide remain invisible to systems meant to protect them. They are the homeless sleeping on streets, migrant workers building cities, refugees rebuilding lives, and rural poor without documents. They work, they exist, they contribute — yet they stay unseen. PeerPass Foundation was created to change that by providing identity to the invisible through an ethical, peer-verified, privacy-preserving digital identity system that combines compassion with technology.
Our Purpose
To ensure that no human being is denied recognition due to the absence of documents like birth certificates, addresses, or national IDs, our mission is to provide trustworthy, verifiable, and secure digital identities that complement government systems and empower individuals to access healthcare, education, housing, and social protections.
We envision a world where identity is not a privilege of documentation, but a birthright of existence.
Our Approach
PeerPass operates at the crossroads of humanitarian compassion and technological precision.
We create decentralized digital identity systems based on three core ethical principles:
Peer Verification:
Local communities confirm identities through structured, consensus-driven attestations—ensuring trust is built from the bottom up rather than imposed from the top down.Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs):
Advanced cryptography allows individuals to verify eligibility or authenticity without sharing personal or sensitive information.Blockchain-Backed Transparency:
Each verification is recorded on a tamper-proof, auditable ledger that maintains trust among citizens, NGOs, and governments.
This system enables a person to prove they exist without revealing who they are, safeguarding privacy, dignity, and inclusion for everyone.
Our Difference
Unlike traditional identity programs, PeerPass is community-driven, privacy-first, and globally interoperable.
We don’t collect data to centralize it — we return identity ownership to the individual.
Governments gain a verifiable yet privacy-protected trust layer.
NGOs can deliver aid and welfare programs efficiently.
Volunteers can verify ethically through local participation.
People reclaim control over their digital presence and future.
PeerPass is not just about issuing digital IDs — it’s about creating a movement of recognition that redefines how societies include, empower, and protect their people.
Our Guiding Principles
Principle: Meaning 🕊️ Dignity First. Every life has inherent worth; systems must protect that truth.
🔒 Privacy by Design: No person should lose privacy to gain recognition.
🌍 Global Inclusion: Technology must serve humanity, not divide it.
🤝 Partnership & Trust: Governments, NGOs, and communities work together transparently.
⚙️ Open Innovation: Built on open-source standards, peer-audited for fairness.
Our Impact Model
Each PeerPass identity has a ripple effect:
For Individuals: access to services, dignity, and self-worth.
For Governments: verifiable, cost-efficient inclusion metrics.
For NGOs: reliable outreach to the right beneficiaries.
For Society: reduced inequality and increased trust in systems.
Our field programs start with training local volunteers, deploying secure verification kits, and onboarding communities through consent-based digital inclusion drives.
Every verified person becomes a living testament to humanity’s progress — proof that compassion, when powered by technology, can restore hope.
Our Vision for 2030
By 2030, PeerPass Foundation aims to empower 50 million people with peer-verified digital identities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America — supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 16.9:
“Legal identity for all, including birth registration." Our goal is not just to provide technology but to promote global empathy through verification — where recognition becomes a shared moral obligation.
Our Founder, Dr. C. Sreeram, the visionary behind PeerPass Foundation, believes that identity is the first step toward dignity. His experience with homeless individuals in India—who said they couldn’t access government welfare programs because they had no ID—sparked this movement. From that moment, PeerPass was born: a blend of compassion, cryptography, and conscience.
