Identosphere 162: Belgium's EBSI Reboot • Encounter Louisiana MDL • EBSI for Canada • Ownership in AI-enabled world
Upcoming events, company news, organizational updates, standards development, and deep thoughts on everything related to decentralized identity and verifiable credentials
Both Federated Identity and SSI models support similar (but not wholly overlapping) use cases. For example, both models can support remote identification, authentication, and/or authorization to online services. Both require an entity that holds the source records, issues credentials, and supports the possibility of a third party using those credentials.
In the digital era, the quest for a secure and efficient identity management system has led to the emergence of two distinct philosophies: Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) digital public infrastructure (DPI) approach as recently endorsed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
“A lot of countries are working on applications based on the blockchain; it would be a good idea to build them on a common infrastructure. But it has to be on a blockchain which is managed by the government,” he said.
Michel is proposing to reboot the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) project set up by the European Commission in 2018, in collaboration with the European Blockchain partnership, made up of the 27 EU member states plus Norway and Liechtenstein.
The revamped EBSI project will be renamed Europeum and will be used by public administration tasks such as verifying driver’s licenses and other official documents throughout the EU. According to Michel, the project could also support the digital Euro infrastructure. He emphasized the importance of using a public blockchain infrastructure developed by EU member states instead of private alternatives:
Since 2020, Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) has kept the industry up to date with the Global Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI), the most comprehensive industry-focused effort to map and analyze the blockchain and digital assets community across six key areas:
1. Legislation & Regulatory Developments 2. Taxonomy 3. Technical Standards 4. Blockchain & Digital Assets Landscape 5. Courses from Accredited Educational Institutions 6. In-Depth Reports & Visuals on Key Themes
Recognized legally as an equalivalent to physical identification, LA Wallet is my go-to for age-restricted purchases/entry, voting, and (heaven forbid) police encounters. Because of this, the mDL ensures legal compliance and security while leveraging the convenience and accessibility of mobile technology. They accomplish this by using Verifiable Credentials.
This wallet integrates various attributes and credentials, ensuring they are stored and managed with utmost security and respect for privacy. As an integral part of the EU digital identity and trust services framework, EUDI extends beyond the wallet, offering a comprehensive solution for digital identity management across the European Union.
A release from Canadian digital identity firm Credivera says the company has entered the last phase of testing before commercialization under the Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) program.
EBSI-CAN explores the potential for the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) to be deployed as a verifiable, cross-border credentialing framework in Canada, levering on use-cases for cross-issuance, cross verification and cross-recognition with the centre of learners when traveling between the EU and Canada.
Founding members of the coalition include representatives from Anthology, Bowdoin College, The California State University System, Cengage, Greenville County Schools, Google, Instructure, University of Maryland Global Campus, Oracle, Southern New Hampshire University, Udemy, VitalSource, Western Governors University and Wichita State University.
Please be informed that, beginning from December 2023, the SSI Kit will no longer receive new features. Furthermore, the SSI Kit is planned for discontinuation by the end of Q3 2024.
However, all functionalities currently offered by the SSI Kit will be integrated into our new libraries, APIs, and apps under The Community Stack. This is aimed at providing a more modular, flexible, and efficient solution for your needs while ensuring familiar interfaces for a smooth transition.
The DIDComm Demo allows you to connect to another person, a computer, a phone or simply another window in a different browser tab so you can see DIDComm messages traverse back and forth after the messages have been decrypted [...] to see how DIDComm works without needing to sift through or learn a substantial stack like Hyperledger Aries Cloud Agent Python (ACA-Py).
If you want to release your software as open source, release the bit (or a bit) that doesn’t have intrinsic business value. Use that value to pay for the rest
Full decentralized data Marketplace SEDIMARK recently went live with its deployment on the IOTA Tangle Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). As part of the development, SEDIMARK will be deploying its own custom SSI framework. This move is set to revolutionize digital identity management within the marketplace.
Never would I have thought I’d use the word ‘beautiful’ to describe my experience passing through immigration when traveling internationally, but that’s exactly how it felt last week in Aruba. The reason? Aruba’s Happy One Pass (AHOP).
The path to the future is already lined with promising collaborations, including municipal use cases with the cities of Cologne, Leipzig and Dresden as well as various use cases with major banks such as Commerzbank AG and ING Deutschland. These early adopters will benefit from improved process efficiency, reduced paperwork and higher data quality, resulting in significant time and cost savings.
Your digital identity is your anchor in the digital realm, asserting our ownership, preserving our uniqueness, and fostering trust in an increasingly automated world, helping you operationalize your digital relationships. The future beckons with the promise of AI, but it's our digital identity that will define our place in it.
OriginTrail is dedicated to building a trusted knowledge infrastructure for artificial intelligence. This infrastructure ensures the origin of information, fights misinformation, and promotes data governance.
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