Identosphere 106 • Verifiable Presentation Personas • How to approach a Use-Case • Avatars, Identity and Privacy in the Metaverse
Upcoming events, company news, organizational updates; standards, specifications, and deep thoughts on everything related to decentralized identity and verifiable credentials
MetaMask Grants DAO, funded by ConsenSys, is an experimental, employee-led program that issues grants to external developers worldwide to build impactful experiences within the MetaMask ecosystem. MetaMask Grants DAO has a budget of $2.4M per year.
Great moderators interest themselves for healthy, positive, vibrant Community of Practice. After all, being a moderator is an important community role. It influences the culture within a community!
Building teams that are resilient when all is changing demands a deeper understanding of what drives individuals and how they cope with new tensions and compromises
Supporting a node on the Indicio Network is no longer a volunteer program with benefits, but an association that will be at the center of the global change
This report attempts to map the space that exists between the promise of digital credentials that represent skills, competencies and abilities and their widespread adoption in employment-related use cases. It is based on a set of semi-structured interviews with leading experts and decision makers in North America and Europe, desk research and expert analysis.
This paper investigates how the new possibilities afforded through distributed ledger technology make possible an alternative future of generative value accounting and self-sovereign identity practices.
New standards – ISCC (ISO) for decentralised content identification and did:iscc together with verifiable credentials (W3C) for claims – provide the means to verify decentralised content declarations and content authenticity. Here's how it works (thread):
The term Linked Data is used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting information on the Web using standards, such as URLs, to identify things and their properties.
The goal of this piece is to fill these gaps in our comprehension of VPs. To that end, I’ve constructed three VP personas that zoom in on different motivations for creating presentations: Certifiers, Consolidators, and Submitters.
The British government clearly has more tolerance for humor when naming important things than the W3C does. Continuing in the original fashion, thus this name.
The preliminary draft of the federal law contains the much needed legal foundations, which are formulated in a fairly open manner and is therefore considered by our members to be very good. We are convinced that the proposal for the e-ID law represents a solid basis and sets the framework for a promising trust infrastructure in which a state-issued e-ID represents the core element.
to create more human-centric, fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital societies for Europe and beyond: 1# Aligning the definitions with the GDPR and the DGA 2# Data intermediaries and APIs 3# Operators within data spaces 4# Technology neutrality of data sharing contracts
Onyx by J.P. Morgan is on the forefront of exploring a future that enables us to seamlessly traverse digital realms in a trusted way. This future calls for ability to store, view and share your digital assets that are bound to your digital identity, all in one place.
It is possible, he contends, to utilize the identity-binding and convenient user experience of biometrics without centralizing or sharing biometric data.
- More than half of all people claiming a new PhD in the US have a fake degree - 75% of university admissions staff can't identify a fake certificate - Over 1,200 vendors worldwide offer fake COVID vaccine and test certificates
three members of DIDAS (SwissSign, cardossier and Adnovum) have built a mini-ecosystem as a PoC in collaboration with the canton of Aargau. This exemplary ecosystem consists of three use cases that build on each other and shed light on the issuance and use of digital credentials in the form of SSI-Verifiable Credentials (VC).
In an era of what the US Pentagon calls “full-spectrum dominance,” these separate nodes of technology create a cohesive whole that scans, tracks, and monitors not only every movement and digital transaction but, increasingly, the very intimate and sovereign inner space of the human being.
The Big Bet on the Thoma Bravo Roll-up Travis Jarae Liminal CEO and David Fields Partner PTB Ventures - Thoma Bravo's incredible sequence of recent deals, including their third identity and access management (IAM) company this year: Sailpoint $6.9B ; PingIdentity $2.8B ; ForgeRock $2.3B
