Building momentum for digital wallet innovation and openness
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – The OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), a leading open source initiative promoting interoperable digital wallets and credentials, is proud to welcome Huawei as its newest Premier Sponsor. Huawei’s participation reinforces OWF’s mission to drive collaboration, openness, and innovation in the digital wallet ecosystem.
OWF, hosted by Linux Foundation Europe, provides a neutral platform where companies, non-profits, and public sector organizations can collaborate on open source software for secure, privacy-respecting, and interoperable wallets. Huawei joins a diverse group of stakeholders working to shape the future of digital wallets worldwide.
“Huawei’s commitment to OWF is an exciting milestone,” said Daniel Goldscheider, Founder and Executive Director of the OpenWallet Foundation. “Their expertise and global presence will help accelerate our shared goal of creating open and interoperable wallet solutions for users everywhere.”
Huawei has a long-standing track record of driving innovation across technology and telecommunications sectors. By joining OWF, Huawei will contribute its knowledge and experience to initiatives that enhance interoperability, establish open standards, and encourage adoption of secure digital wallet solutions.
“We are proud to join the OpenWallet Foundation and contribute to a truly open, secure, and interoperable digital-wallet ecosystem,” said chief open source liaison officer of Huawei, Bill Ren. “By combining our decades-long expertise in ICT domain with OWF’s collaborative model, we will help developers and consumers worldwide unlock the full potential of next-generation digital identity and payment solutions.”
This partnership underscores OWF’s momentum as a collaborative initiative uniting public and private sector leaders to build foundational technologies for next-generation digital wallets. Open source collaboration remains critical as digital identity and payments evolve globally.
“I’m delighted to see OWF grow with Huawei’s involvement,” said Gabriele Columbro, General Manager of Linux Foundation Europe. “Their participation demonstrates the value of cross-industry collaboration in achieving interoperable, secure, and user-centric wallet infrastructure, the perfect example of a project born in Europe but incredibly relevant on the global scale.”
With Huawei on board, OWF continues to strengthen its position as a hub for innovation in digital wallets, fostering privacy-first, scalable, and interoperable solutions.
For more information about OWF and opportunities to get involved, visit openwallet.foundation.
About OpenWallet Foundation
The OpenWallet Foundation (OWF) provides a safe space for developers to collaborate on standards-based open source components that issuers, wallet providers and relying parties can use to bootstrap implementations that preserve user choice, security and privacy. Working closely with the OpenWallet Forum which is hosted at ITU OWF brings the public and private sector together to work towards open, secure and interoperable digital wallets. OWF is an open initiative under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. For more information, please visit openwallet.foundation
