A country ready to welcome the world.
Helping international visitors reach the 2018 FIFA World Cup through one national identification system. Our team, then working within the Digital Ministry, helped build FanID.
- Our role
- Core team contribution while working within the Digital Ministry
- Focus
- Visitor identification, Connected agency systems, Real-time coordination
- Program
- 2018
- 1.83M
- FAN IDs issued
- 843K+
- international visitors
- 20
- issuance centersAcross Russia
Program figures from Exabyte Group’s September 2026 credentials.
FanID
Government
The challenge
Welcome hundreds of thousands of international visitors with a coordinated experience at the border, in the stadium and across the city. Every organization involved needed to work from the same information.
What we built
Our team helped build FanID: a national identification system supported by 20 issuance centers and real-time coordination between the agencies responsible for the tournament.
Why it matters
Visitor identification had to work across borders, stadiums and cities. FanID gave the agencies involved a shared way to coordinate. The following year, we applied that experience to travel planning and visitor services through GoRussia.