Open standards. Sovereign by design. Operated, not just sold.
The principles every Dzinza product shares — the reason a government can adopt our infrastructure as a national utility rather than a vendor's lock-in.
Open standard
Published contracts (Apache-2.0) any vendor can build against — no private agreement, no lock-in. The spec is the agreement.
Sovereign by design
The State owns the data and the mandate as controller. Dzinza operates as a processor, with escrow, export-on-exit and a standing right-to-in-house.
Vendor-neutral
Competitors integrate on identical terms through the same public API. Even our own FuroTrack is just a client, never privileged.
Publicly verifiable
Anyone can verify a certificate with no login — the trust anchor that makes a national record impossible to fake or quietly alter.
Built in & for Africa
A SADC-based team building for African veterinary authorities, producers and export markets first — not a port of someone else's system.
Operated, not just sold
We run the platform under a concession — uptime, data residency, in-region operations — and hand stewardship to the State on designation.
The State holds the data and the mandate. We hold the implementation.
Sovereignty isn't a slogan in our contracts — it's the operating model. The registry is the single source of truth, owned by the State; Dzinza runs it as a processor under a concession with explicit exits.
- State = data controller. Dzinza = processor. The herd data is never a vendor asset.
- Source-available implementation + escrow — auditable, with no hidden behaviour.
- Export-on-exit and right-to-in-house: the nation can always take it over.
From standard to sovereign system — and then handed over.
Each rollout follows the same path, so a government always knows what it is adopting and how it can take control.
Standardise
Ratify the open contract and the national profile — acronym, ID scheme, veterinary zones — with the authority.
Build
Stand up the sovereign registry on the government domain, integrate the first vendors against the open API.
Operate
Run it to an SLA — uptime, residency, support — while industry adopts it and the record fills with real data.
Hand over
Transfer stewardship of the standard to the State or a neutral national body on official designation.
Adopt infrastructure you can own.
See how the open standard, the sovereign model and the conformance mark fit together in our flagship.