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we want to create a series of themed workshops where legislators -- such as the authors of the CRA and the PLD -- can meet experienced open source practitioners -- that's you!
The Human Experience Working Group’s Interaction Patterns Task Force is on a mission to enable digital wallet experiences that are reliable, accessible, and trustworthy. This survey will help to ensure the deliverables of the group meet the needs of the community and bring business value to implementers.
This survey is open to everybody, it should take less than 10 minutes to complete.
Insights from 100+ conversations with identity verification companies, innovative startups, and top executives at market-leading identity companies in 2023.
Delve into the evolution, current state, and future prospects of digital identity. From challenges faced by traditional systems, and how Self-Sovereign Identity is not just a solution, but also the cornerstone of new business models
With the announcement of the European Digital Identity (EUDI), digital wallets appear to be the moral winner in the debate over which solution is best for taking more control over one’s data. But is this a valid conclusion? In this blog post, we introduce you into the world of digital wallets, data safes and key safes.
The C2PA global standard and its clear, verifiable Content Credentials are powering a movement for transparency in digital media through the Content Authenticity Initiative’s (CAI) open-source tools and cross-industry community. In this Showcase, hear from CAI members DataTrails, BNB Chain, and Leica Camera AG — three companies that are contributing to the ecosystem and sharing what they’ve learned about the flexible Content Credentials technology that exists today to verify, maintain, and restore context to content.
Benefits of DTC for Travelers: Analysis of how DTCs could streamline travel processes and their comparison to existing programs like Clear and Nexus.
Future of DTC Adoption: Inquiry into the current state of DTC pilot projects and predictions for future adoption trends.
Integration of DTCs in Wallets and Applications: Consideration of the logical placement of DTCs in digital wallets and applications, and their potential impact on travel efficiency
Trinsic’s innovative use of passkeys solves the problem of key management for users, giving them a strong, biometric-authentication that also encrypts their data. By using App Clips on iOS and Instant Apps on Android, Trinsic Connect allows users to create a persistent identity across a network of applications without first requiring an app-download.
We are working on the layout book, containing an overview and formal specification of TreeLDR's layouts.
We've extracted the RDF handling part of TreeLDR's layout compiler into a separate project, InfeRDF. This "RDF engine" is dedicated to the inference and interpretation of RDF datasets so TreeLDR can fully focus on its main feature: the layouts.
Indicio Team lead Mike Ebert joins the show to discuss the recent addition of Open Badges to Proven, including what they are, why they are interesting, and how you can start using them through the Proven ecosystem.
Spokeo aggregates many sources of data about people and sells that data to verifiers. So at first blush, Harrison is an unlikely person to be a massive advocate for SSI and co-chair of the W3C Credentials Community Group.
We dig in to why Spokeo cares about verifiable credentials, and how verifiable credentials represent the opportunity to deliver more trust to Spokeo’s customers and how they allow Spokeo to participate in the next wave of digital identity innovation.
Governing generates an enormous amount of paperwork, so much so, the US employs an estimated 228,000 auditors to keep track of it. Here, we look at how governments can save millions on issuing documents, licenses and permits, while providing a much better experience for citizens.
The NSW Digital ID system includes the use of facial verification technology (FVT) and liveness detection, a type of facial analysis technology. These are powerful technologies that can be deployed to create a convenient and secure system of identity verification. However, as examples of a broader class of facial recognition technology (FRT), they also pose risks for human rights such as privacy, nondiscrimination and access to social security
How the California DMV is offering mobile driver's licenses and other digital credentials, such as car registrations, to its residents and best practices for success
The importance of open-source development to enable myriad use cases across public and private sectors for verifiable digital identity
The security and accessibility advantages of digitally verifiable credentials
We are thrilled that California’s mDL pilot was recognized by the reputable Gartner, Inc. for the 2023 Innovation Award. Working closely with the state DMV, we brought Californians a reliable digital credential that is privacy-first and open source to maintain the utmost reliability and interoperability.
There is some major positive good news for the KERI & ACDC ecosystem. The European Banking Authority announced on LinkedIn the EBA Pillar 3 data hub which is built on KERI & ACDC. The Pillar 3 data hub uses the vLEI system developed by GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation.
Zuck: Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty optimistic about this.
Each document written to Ceramic in the form of a Verifiable Credential or off-chain EAS Attestation payload contains everything needed to later recall the document from Ceramic and validate the signatures.
At the core of W3C standards are the features they unlock, not only for the users themselves but for the developers integrating them into their applications.
