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Upcoming
Risk Management: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Security Compliance 9/29 EdgeSecure
European Blockchain Week 9/29-10/5 Slovenia and Croatia
Infrachain Summit 10/4 about real business – not the next hype
Identity Week USA (formerly Connect:ID) Washington DC 10/4-5 (Kaliya and other DIF folks will be there)
Internet Identity Workshop #35 11/14-16, Mountain View CA
Hiring
Vinícius Niche @viniciusniche of Truvity shares
Hey Tech Twitter, @TruvityHQ (where I work) is hiring engineers for the Infrastructure Developer (Go/Kubernetes) role, details are on the thread
Interop @DIF Survey Time
What protocols do you use? and who are you interoping with?
Kaliya co-chairs this group
We are keen to support more interoperability activity and hopefully testing this fall and winter. In order to do this we would like to gather feedback from the community as to where we are at so we can assess how to move forward.
Explainers
A Beginners Guide to Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) Veramo
10 Resources for beginners in Decentralized Identity (DID) Veramo
Organization
Towards a Better Digital Identity Trust Framework in Aotearoa Digital Identity NZ
It’s a great pleasure to share with you DINZ Reflections Report, a seminal piece of work that DINZ’s Digital Identity Trust Framework working group has developed over several months.
The Birth of the vLEI: A New Dawn in Digital ID for Legal Entities Everywhere GLEIF
For businesses the world over, confidence in digital authenticity is in short supply. Can you be sure that your bank’s website is not an elaborate phishing recreation? Did that e-invoice really come from your business partner? How can you tell? [...]
eBook: ‘The vLEI: Introducing Digital I.D. for Legal Entities Everywhere
Standards
Timo Glastra @TimoGlastra via Twitter
Just got my first DIDComm protocol published on the https://didcomm.org website.
Open API for Interoperable Traceability CCG
CLIENT CREDENTIALS FLOW
Auth URL https://example.com/authorize
Token URL https://example.com/oauth/token
resolve:dids - Grants permission to resolve DIDsissue:credentials - Grants permission issue Verifiable Credentialsverify:credentials - Grants permission verify Verifiable Credentialsread:credentials - Grants permission to get Verifiable Credentialsupdate:credentials - Grants permission to update the status of Verifiable Credentialsprove:presentations - Grants permission to prove Verifiable Presentationsverify:presentations - Grants permission verify Verifiable Presentationssubmit:presentations - Grants permission to submit Verifiable Presentations
Company Highlights
Lessons in Good Leadership for Good ID Omidyar Network
Insights from a year-long evaluation of our Digital Identity program
Breaking Digital Borders: Scaling User-Owned Data from Zero to One Million — Key Takeaways Affinidi, Berlin Blockchain Week
Zain Yousaf, our Product Principal, and Marco took over to showcase Console to the audience. They did a walkthrough of the Console to help everyone understand how they can build privacy-preserving apps through this no-code dev tool.
Use-Case
Event tickets as verifiable credentials Lissi
This article explains how verifiable credentials can be used to benefit event organizers and visitors alike based on a practical usage of the Lissi team.
Orie Steele @OR13b via Twitter
The Content Authenticity Initiative one of Orie’s favoriate Use-cases for VCS
Yes, verifiable authentic human content is important. I also think cryptography can provide better transparency for synthetic content. It's one of my favorite applications of W3C Verifiable Credentials.
Credivera @crediveratech via Twitter
We Credivera are Having fun at the #NSCExpo
Job Candidates Lie, New Tech From ZippedScript And LearnCard Will Help You Catch Them Forbes
“recently launched LearnCard, a digital wallet for education and employment programmable verifiable credentials”
How can self-sovereign identity solve the challenges of KYC in financial industry? Yourstory
Since the same data is required and utilised by everyone, blockchain-based SSI can satisfy the demand for general service for data without creating competition while also adhering to legislation and consumer expectations around data protection.
A pilot project for interoperable decentralised identity between Aigües de Barcelona, CaixaBank and Validated ID ValidatedID
the solution has allowed CaixaBank, at the request of a fictitious user, to issue an account ownership credential and, subsequently, this credential has been used to proceed with the direct debit of the invoices of Aigües de Barcelona
HUMBL @HUMBLPay via Twitter (ANN)
using verifiable credentials in their wallet
#HUMBL x GF2GO - San Diego, CA - Pilot Program: New search engine, mobile wallet, verifiable credentials and delivery technologies.
Why self-sovereign identity will increase university demands for a future in lifelong digital credentials BiometricUpdate
Biometrics Update running a series by cheqd CEO Fraser Edwards
Supply Chain
Transmute @TransmuteNews via Twitter
The "[Fake] 30TB hard drive" investigation shows the real impact verification could have on #eCommerce. #verifiablecredentials
The Phygital Future of the Supply Chain Next Level Supply Chain Podcast with GS1
The digital and physical world are merging more than ever before. As the supply chain becomes more ‘phygital,’ innovative ways of sharing data – like using verifiable credentials – are helping to build more trust with data along the supply chain. Join us as we chat with Senior VP of Innovation & Partnerships at GS1 US, Melanie Nuce, as we explore what’s around the corner and how standards play
DWeb Camp Recap
The DWeb Is An Ensemble Piece - Holochain Blog Holochain
I witness demos of Social Sensemaker and We, working examples of Holochain apps that help groups create healthy online social spaces to work and play in
How Ethereal Engine is Unleashing the Power of the Immersive Web Ethereal Engine
In keeping with the DWeb Camp theme, we also demonstrated how decentralized identifiers, identity web wallets, and verified credentials can be powerfully leveraged in Ethereal Engine to enable an entirely new paradigm of frictionless portable identity that champions user privacy and dignity.
Trends
New McKinsey Digital Trend
We went through the paywall so you don’t have to - SSI only mentioned once. From page 99>>
Decentralized Identifiers Market May See a Big Move: Major Giants- Consensys, Blockstack, Danube Tech Xaralite (Executive Summary)
provides valuable market size data for historical (Volume** & Value) from 2016 to 2020 which is estimated and forecasted till 2026*. Some are the key & emerging players that are part of coverage and have being profiled are Transmute (United States), Consensys (United States), uPort (United States), IBM (United States), Tykn Tech (Netherlands), Blockstack (United States), Danube Tech (Austria), Trinsic (United States), Spherity (Germany), Microsoft (United States).
Web 3
MetaMask Launches Beta Portfolio Dapp For An Integrative Web3 Experience ConsenSys
How and Why are MetaMask Users Losing their Funds due to Phishing Incidents? Consensys
Interestingly, all interviewed users claimed to have had a seamless and easy onboarding experience all the way from download through wallet creation — yet they still managed to give their SRPs to phishing scammers.
What’s the Difference Between an NFT and a Verifiable Credential? Trinsic
Blockchains are not required for exchanging verifiable credentials, but layer-2 networks like Ion, built on top of Bitcoin, can provide an additional level of security when creating Interestingly, all interviewed users claimed to have had a seamless and easy onboarding DIDs.
DAO
DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters Vitalik Buterin
I will focus on three types of situations where decentralization is important:
Decentralization for making better decisions in concave environments, where pluralism and even naive forms of compromise are on average likely to outperform the kinds of coherency and focus that come from centralization.
Decentralization for censorship resistance: applications that need to continue functioning while resisting attacks from powerful external actors.
Decentralization as credible fairness: applications where DAOs are taking on nation-state-like functions like basic infrastructure provision, and so traits like predictability, robustness and neutrality are valued above efficiency.
A Prehistory of DAOs: Cooperatives, gaming guilds, and the networks to come GnosisGuild
The year is 1996. John Perry Barlow is about to declare, “The internet consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself” (1).
From the vantage point of today’s web, someone might argue that only the first part of Barlow’s statement is correct.
Metaverse
Accenture onboarded 150,000 new staff in the metaverse during the pandemic
Featuring Verifiable Credentials :)
Because it’s visual and experiential, the metaverse is “a little bit easier to grasp from a leadership perspective,” said Cutlan. “I don’t know anyone who saw early days blockchain demos and said, ‘I need to show 20 of my friends’.”
IEEE Blockchain Chair Urges Speedy, Collaborative Open Metaverse Deployment Wrench in the Gears
Warning of dystopian nightmares
I don’t think people recognize that as a new empire built on military tech and steeped in behavioral psychology. Immersive reality is an open air prison / Skinner Box. If the story is good enough, they think we won’t resist it.
Research
SSI meets Metaverse for Industry 4.0 and Beyond Techrxiv
The proposed holistic framework aims to ignite new ideas and discussions related to the combined deployment of DLT, SSI, and metaverse to inspire new implementation areas within the Industry 4.0 environment. The paper also discusses various opportunities, enablers, technical \& privacy aspects, legislation requirements, and other barriers related to SSI implementation.
Blockchain-Based Self-Sovereign Identity Approach for Inter-Organizational Business Processes Annals
To address trust and privacy issues in IOBP, this paper presents a Blockchain-based Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) approach. The SSI concept is combined with a registry proof smart contract to provide an efficient privacy-preserving solution. The proposed approach is applied to the pharmaceutical supply chain case study and implemented on the Ethereum Blockchain
Towards the Classification of Self-Sovereign Identity Properties Zenodo
focusing on an in-depth analysis, furthermore, presenting a comprehensive collection of SSI properties that are important for the implementation of the SSI system. In addition, it explores the general SSI process flow, and highlights the steps in which individual properties are important. After the initial purification and classification phase, we then validated properties among experts in the field of Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identity Management using an online questionnaire, which resulted in a final set of classified and verified SSI properties.
Inventories, Not Identities: Why multisigs are the future of online accounts (first in series)
Data Sovereignty
Skills for creative futures? MyData starts the Cyanotypes project. MyData
For the next five years, the European Commission has formulated an ambitious plan to define new skill sets for the Cultural and Creative Industries Sector (CCIS). This effort is based on the European Skills Agenda, which aims to help individuals and businesses to develop more, and better skill sets.
What to make of data sovereignty MyData
Data sovereignty has gained much recent attention, whilst interpreted in varied ways. MyData Global describes in this blog post what to make of data sovereignty when taking a human-centric approach to personal data.
Thoughtful
The Gap between #Purpose and #How is filled with #Paradox MyDigitalFootprint
Google’s Purpose is to “Organise the world's information.” How it does this is by collection and ownership of data. The Purpose is not wrong, but How is an interesting take on data ownership. Facebook's Purpose is “To connect every person in the world.” It does this by using your data to manipulate you and your network. The Purpose is not wrong, but How Facebook does it is an interesting take on control and the distribution of value?
Facebook
Should we still be afraid of Facebook? Max Read
I imagine most readers are at least vaguely aware, Facebook was once such a disproportionately huge traffic source for digital publishers
Why Facebook’s ‘one identity’ rule has to change for VR TheVerge
Facebook Workplace accounts is a good example. It’s one of those pieces that I think when we look at Infinite Office, we’re targeting supporting that as one of the techniques that people can use to feel like, “Yeah, I can have my workplace Facebook account, and that’s what I’m going to use in certain contexts.”
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