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Upcoming

• [California] Internet Identity Workshop #37 10/10-12 ← Ticket Sales Open

• [Germany] Self Sovereign Identity at Eclipse: Why, What, and How? 10/17 Eclipse Con

Hiring

Digital Identity Lead Underwriters Laboratories Inc, Berlin, BE

• Expertise in PKI, Digital identity, e-IDAS, and Security requirements for Private and Public Entities

• Solid understanding of identity related standards like ISO18013, ICAO Doc9303, ISO7816, Digital Tachograph, [sic] Verifying Credentials

Adoption

[web3auth, VCs] ScoutPass: A Digital Wallet for Scouts World Scout Movement (by Learning Economy)

Join Scouts in the world of Web 3.0! ScoutPass is World Scouting’s digital wallet which allows Scouts to earn and share credentials such as [Scout badges, Skills, Accomplishments, Details of their Scouting journey]

Development

[tweet] A TypeScript library that enables selective disclosure of JWT credentials 2023-08-17 Animo

This open-source library will be used in our SD-JWT initiative, which we're in the process of raising funds for!

[Code] Wordpress Plugin for VCs! Janelle Krupicka

A proof-of-concept Wordpress plugin for logging in with a verifiable credential.

[Tweet] Are you building with UCANs? Let us know, and we'll add you to the UCAN Directory! 2023-08-17 FissionCodes

https://ucan.xyz/community/ Or you can add yourself by submitting an issue

[How-To] PDF PAdES digital signatures using ETSI.CAdES.detached 2021-01-06 Margus Pala, eIDEasy

this blog post is very useful about PDF digital signatures and #eIDAS e_id_easy

This article explores how digital signatures in PDF work and how to digitally sign the PDF document when signature is created in remote app, device or service. In the end you will also find references that will help you implement external PDF digital signatures. More details

Standards

[GitHub] Wholistic Human-Oriented Discussions on Identity Systems (WHODIS) 2023-08-08 Internet Architecture Board (IAB)

First, the program will survey the standardization landscape to determine what types of identity mechanisms exist and where they are being developed. Second, the program will examine the existing use of these identity mechanisms within the Internet, seeking to understand how identities are used or misused to solve real world problems. Third, the program will discuss what use cases are currently uncovered or otherwise inadequately addressed

Re: [Identity-discuss] WHODIS Current Charter 2023-08-17 Orie Steele 

our recent response to the W3C DID WG Charte [...] The core problem is that the previous work essentially side stepped leveraging existing standards for URLs and media types for key representations and identity documents. [...] You can see some of the connection points between "DIDs", "VCs" and existing IETF work items in this issue

Second-Generation Verifiable Credentials 2023-08-17 Timothy Ruff 

Chaining enables multiple levels of signatures for the same credential, and also for authority to be conveyed from signature to signature and/or credential to credential, enabling the very last link in the chain of delegated authority to be as strongly provable as the first.

Business

5 Aha! Moments About Decentralized Identity from the Privacy Files Podcast 2023-08-10 Anonyome

Aha 1: DI technology is ready for your business application.

Why does the money in #SSI lie in #verifiablecredentials? 2023-08-17 Harrison Tang

Verifiable Credentials are like a receipt in a payment transaction or any value exchange. It has many use cases, and the #revolution has just begun. Check out my conversation with @windley here: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2023-06-27/

[Knowledge Base] Analytics and Insights: Unveiling the Power of Data-driven Decision Making in DIAM 2023-08-14 Know

• Unveiling the Secrets of Decentralized IAM for a New Digital Era!

• Limitless Possibilities: How DIAM Transforms Identity Management

• DIAM Decoded: Ultimate Guide to Decentralized IAM Terms!

• Unleash Digital Sovereignty with a Step-by-Step Implementation Guide!

Wallets

• [Explainer, Video] Verifiable Credentials and Digital Wallets: An Overview with Erik Scott 2023-04-27 CI Compass

• Handout: The history and future of digital wallets 2023-06-29 Lockstep

[AI] International data spaces (IDS): safe and easy data exchange 2023-08-15 TNO

DataSpaces are a thing now!

Large-scale data sharing is currently hampered by concerns about trust and the lack of control mechanisms for sharing secure and trusted data.

IDS is a building block to overcome these barriers, such as by utilising the advantages of artificial intelligence (AI) in order to accelerate the sharing of input data or the results of an algorithm.

Data Management

An Introduction to Data Verification Platform 2023-05-25 Lockstep

In this paper, we propose a general unified model for verifying data which uses the latest techniques for sharing verifiable credentials in a general-purpose network business model. Open data, open banking, the rights of access to publicly-funded research, and so many other plans to “unleash the power of data” are being promoted across government, business, and social institutions.

[NYC, Covid-19] Responsible Data Re-Use Framework 2020-11-19 The Data Assembly

seeks to inform if, when and how the re-use personal data can be aligned with people’s expectations and societal values. While the initial focus of the Data Assembly falls on data re-use for COVID-19 measures in New York City, the framework is intended to be applicable to policymaking and data re-use project design in other contexts. 

Literature

SoK: The Ghost Trilemma 2023-08-07 Sulagna Mukherjee, Srivatsan Ravi, Paul Schmitt, Barath Raghavan, USC

We posit the Ghost Trilemma, that there are three key properties of identity—sentience, location, and uniqueness—that cannot be simultaneously verified in a fully-decentralized setting. [...] we examine the design space, use cases, problems with prior approaches, and possible paths forward. We sketch a proof of this trilemma and outline options for practical, incrementally deployable schemes to achieve an acceptable tradeoff

[Literature, Estonia] DPKI Infrastructure for X-Road 2023-08 Mariia Bakhtina, Kin Long Leung, Raimundas Matulevičius, Ahmed Awad

To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first open-access system prototype for an organisation’s identity management following self-sovereign identity principles. The presented proof of concept proves that DPKI helps to address some of the scalability issues of PKI, improve control over identity and mitigate replay attacks and a single point of failure in the X-Road system.

Government

Building Proofs of Possibilities for a Civic Economy and Society 2023-08-14 Dark Matter Labs

With the financial and strategic support of Partners for A New Economy, Scottish Land Commission, and Opus Independents, Radicle Civics has been building a vibrant ecosystem of diverse partners [...], we have sowed the seeds for new civic infrastructures through a number of ‘proofs of possibilities’: visceral experiences and situated experiments that embody a new logic for how we can relate to each other and our environment

ICO consultation on the draft biometric data guidance ICO UK 08/18-10/20

• Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable person.

• If you can identify someone from the information directly or indirectly, then it is personal data.

• Biometric data is a type of personal data.

• The data must meet specific requirements to be biometric data. These relate to qualities of the data itself, not how you use it.

• If you use biometric data for unique identification, it is special category biometric data.

[New Zealand] The Time For Action Is Now 2023-08-16 Digital ID NZ

If you’re interested, pages 14 -15 and 32-34 of our Report on Digital Identity in Aotearoa help with further context around the market dynamics. Nonetheless, it’s sobering to be reminded how offshore perceives us – how our comprehensive leadership in this space less than 10 years ago has narrowed and in some cases been overtaken. 

[Australia] The goal is identification, not an identity 2023-06-01 Lockstep

To repeat, I argue that the outcome of identifications performed at different organisations should not be thought of as “identities” because in practice they are not useful across organisations; they are not equivalent.  Calling identification outcomes “identities” is natural shorthand but it carries an expectation of reusability that is rarely possible.

[Australia] What should a national digital ID look like? 2023-07-27 Stevel Wilson, Lockstep

The Australian government has re-energised its planning for a national digital ID, with finance minister Katy Gallagher predicting this week that an ID verification service would be operational within 12 months. This seems ambitious.

[Bhutan] Tiny Bhutan’s giant digital-ID-on-blockchain roar 2023-08-17 DigFinGroup

This is important for the basic features of NDI, including verifiable credentials, digital signatures on legally binding contracts, and eKYC. But it will also be vital as NDI is extended into financial matters.

Organization

Announcing the Digital Credentials Protocols WG 2023-08-18 OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) Specs Council has accepted a proposal to create a new working group as a dedicated home of the OpenID for Verifiable Credentials specs family. The new working group is designated as “Digital Credentials Protocols Working Group” (DCP WG).

[Adobe] What are Content Credentials? 2023-08-21 CAI

Alongside the CAI, Adobe co-founded a standards development organization, the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), to develop an open, global standard for sharing this information across platforms and websites (beyond just Adobe products). Content Credentials is an implementation of this standard.

[DCP WG, ANN] Digital Credentials Protocols Working Group 2023-08-18 OpenID [Zoom] [mail list] [info + charter]

The goal of the Digital Credentials Protocols (DCP) working group is to develop OpenID specifications for the Issuer-Holder-Verifier-Model use-cases to enable issuance and presentations of the Digital Credentials of any format (IETF SD-JWTl, ISO/IEC 18013-5, etc.) and pseudonymous authentication from the End-User to the Verifier

SSI Solution demos for Findynet stakeholders 2023-08-18 Findi Net

• 23.8.  12–13 Finnish time Lissi Join Teams meeting

• 28.8. 11–12 Finnish time Gataca Join Teams meeting

• 30.8. 19–20 Finnish time Indicio Join Teams meeting

• 31.8. 14.30–15.30 Finnish time walt.id Join Teams meeting

• 12.9. 15–16 Finnish time esatus Join Teams meeting

• 14.9. 18–19 Finnish time Trinsic Join Teams meeting

• 26.9. 11–12 Finnish time SICPA Join Teams meeting

Web 3

• [Aotearoa] Decolonising Financial Compliance: A Transformative Influence on Cardano Continuum Loop

• [Metaverse] Why self-sovereign identity is vital for a safe and user-friendly metaverse Edge Middle East

• [tweet, walt.id, cheqd] Creds.xyz, a private and secure way of sharing social reputation credentials 2023-08-16 SHERIFF.fuel

Introducing Fund Ring: A Web3 Fundraising Primitive 2023-08 Fission Codes

maybe crypto can be useful :)

upcoming features and ideas include:

• Support for native FIL accounts: Use Filsnap, Brave, or other native Filecoin wallets to fund (🗓 planned)

• Filecoin vesting support: Use the built-in vesting features to send FIL over a month or year (💡 idea)

• Filecoin multisig: Use the built-in Filecoin multisig (💡 idea)

• Split support for dependencies: Show other projects in your funding widget, and allocate sending a percentage of funds to a ring of projects (💡 idea)

Polygon ID is More than Biometric Proof of Personhood 2023-08-17 Polygon 

• Polygon ID is open source technology that can enable decentralized identity

• The Polygon ID protocol supports a variety of identity verification methods, from documents to biometrics and more

• The goal of Polygon ID is to enable a self-sovereign identity (SSI) layer for the web

• Biometric “proof of personhood” schemas issue credentials proving uniqueness, but are not fundamental identity layer protocols

Organization ID

• Verifiable Credentials: New Technology for Association Membership? 2023-08-17 Matrix Group

• [Video] Keith Uber: Organizational Identity and vLEIs

• [Video] The Role of Organisational Identities – MEF, London 2023-08-18 [Video] The Role of Organisational Identities – MEF, London 2023-08-18 Ubisecure

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