For over two years we've been aggregating news related to decentralized identity and delivered it directly to your inboxes. Now we have begun integrate this body of work into decentralized-id.com
Lots of exciting developments happening around here, behind the scenes!
For some months we’ve been working out a system to begin integrating these news items into decentralized-id.com while improving the usability and extensibility of that site, and the content its built from.
If you visit the homepage you will notice that its now organized by tags, sorted into sections, facilitating the users ability to find information on topics they are interested.
Besides simply adding content and tweaking the home-page, those company pages are now generated from a spreadsheet, which will greatly enhance our ability to display that content according to its associated attributes, rather than a primarily organizational based structure.
There is quite a lot more to discuss, regarding these updates, and lots more coming down the pipes. Stay tuned for upcoming blog-posts that will go into further detail, and share some exciting news.
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“Our verifiable credentials solution helps organizations who are looking for ways to create confidence in digital interactions,” said CEO Claire Barber. “We apply data minimisation principles that enable individuals to share the information they need to, without oversharing, and which avoid the creation of unnecessary data ‘honeypots’ that can then be targeted by bad actors.”
There was a unanimous vote to have APAC level collaboration to draft a APAC Digital ID Trust Framework. This group can have the participants of the working group shared diverse operating realities, their learnings and interests in building a coherent method to trust each other’s digital identity systems.
Microsoft brings verification to LinkedIn member workplaces
We’re thrilled to announce that millions of LinkedIn members will be able to verify their place of work with a Microsoft Entra Verified ID credential [...] members and organizations can be more confident
We implemented an instance of the proposed system, and we show that it achieves good performance results in two popular deployment configurations: a Local Indy Pool (consisting of 4 nodes) and the Sovrin BuilderNet (a developer test network consisting of 17 node)
to illustrate product traceability across microelectronic and ICT (Industrial Control Technologies) supply chains to critical infrastructure operators. The MVP RI is a follow-on effort from NISTIR 8419 “Blockchain and Related Technologies to Support Manufacturing Supply Chain Traceability” [...] the project seeks technical exchange and discussion with related groups (e.g., industry and standards groups
The legal reforms such as the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill allows for certain trade documents to be digital, such as bills of lading, bills of exchange, promissory notes, warehouse receipts, and insurance documents. These currently must be on paper and physically possessed. Under the Bill, digital trade documents – in other words, trade data – will be on the same legal footing as their paper-based equivalents.
six common organisation identifiers: Decentralised Identifier (DID), Global Location Number (GLN), Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS), Bank Identifier Code (BIC), Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) [and] their respective real-world use cases.
DC4EU provides tangible support to the public and private sectors (43 public stakeholders and 50 organizations from 22 States), in the educational and social security domains by deploying and accessing state-of-the-art trans-European interoperable digital service infrastructures and their integration in a cross-border trust framework.
The goal of the awards is to increase representation from young people’s who’ve demonstrated an interest in subjects consistent with best practices and identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy preserving.
While many schemes in the US, UK and Canada have focused on elements of identity credential issue and use, this will be the first effort to define what are standard requirements expected of issuers of verifiable credential to ensure that their processes are transparent, consistent and meeting the needs of relying parties and ecosystem owners.
Too often when we discuss decentralized identity the focus is on these verifiable credentials, which is not unwarranted [...] but it is important to remember that, just like the internet, they are a means to an end, not the end.
I first briefly explore social networking and identity from a sociological perspective, discuss a subset of some of the important scholars/works in the space (primarily with an eye towards Marshall McLuhan’s work on media theory) and, using insights from these works, present a definition of “Web3” that build’s on Jay Graber’s definition but is inextricably linked to public goods. And, from this definition, non-exhaustively identify key principles and requirements to consider when building in this space.
We break down Disco’s product and the origin of their term of choice—the “data backpack”. We go into some of the choices they made in their journey, including how NFTs and verifiable credentials relate in web3
Kaliya shares her thoughts on the relationship between Web3 and decentralized identity, highlighting the overlaps and what we can hope to see happen in the space this year.
Exploring Decentralized Identity Management, Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Storage, and Cryptocurrency Wallets as the Pillars of a User-Centric and Secure Digital Identity Solution
XRSI calls on all key stakeholders, including privacy professionals, cybersecurity experts, security organizations, policymakers, technologists, and researchers, to join the Forum and the Privacy, Cybersecurity & Identity (PCI) group to contribute to the development of robust standards for the Metaverse
A prominent complaint among Haitian disaster victims has been that they have not received promised aid relief after registering with MonCash or aid organization agents. This is often where the promise of aid delivered straight to a phone comes up short.
