Next, benefits of AI and digital citizenship will never come for free. Democratic public ownership and accountability requires us to participate and speak up as we can. It won’t be easy either, especially given the large inequities wrought by trickle down and neoliberalism. Top heavy ownership of datasets threatens to exacerbate inequities and stifle innovation in AI development. We will have to defend our rights, possibly as self sovereigns.
Theory of Change (ToC) is a methodology or a criterion for planning, participation, adaptive management, and evaluation that is used in companies, philanthropy, not-for-profit, international development, research, and government sectors to promote social change. (Wikipedia)
In this post we’ll outline what this kind of session aims to achieve, share a template which you can re-use, and explain how to make best use of it.
Will your product and organization realize the full business value of decentralized identity technologies, or will the emerging Three-Wallet Problem undermine your investments and efforts?
Calculating the total cost of ownership (TOC) usually determines whether to use a SaaS or on-site deployment model. The key cost drivers for any software implementation are the costs of:
software application
hardware/hosting
staff required to deploy, manage, maintain, and support the application.
One or more parties issuing verifiable credentials for digital identity to people, organizations, or devices.
People, organizations, or devices who then hold the credentials to prove their identity and share data within the credential to other parties.
People, organizations, or devices, that need to prove the identity of those presenting verifiable credentials, and the data within their credentials to accomplish some goal.
The group is actively seeking comments and implementation feedback for this specification as issues raised in the document's Github repository by 01 April 2024.
Previously known as Hyperledger Aries Framework Javascript, it initiatively heavily relieved on Hyperledger standards such as DIDComm, Indy, and AnonCreds. However, with advocacys in verifiable credential technology and the emergence of new standards, the framework underwent multiple refactoring and modularization processes to maintain interoperability.
We highlighted how many of the large identity verification companies launched reusable identity products in 2023. But that post was just a snapshot of last year. What about all of the reusable ID products that are live in market right now? Our reusable identity products market map shares a more comprehensive look at the reusable ID ecosystem in early 2024.
Today, I’m thrilled to announce the expansion of Microsoft Entra Verified ID to include Face Check—a privacy-respecting facial matching feature for high-assurance verifications, which is now in preview. Watch the video to learn more and read on for how you can get started today.
Indicio Team Lead Mike Ebert joins Identity Insights to give us a brief overview of what the Proven Mobile SDK is and how it can help your team implement verifiable credentials into your existing applications.
Digi Yatra Guidelines have been issued by DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) through the Aeronautical Information Circular (AIC) No. 09/2022 dated April 18, 2022. These Digi Yatra guidelines provide for a decentralised mobile wallet-based identity management platform, the MoS for Civil Aviation informed the House.
Protokol is actively working with EBSI to deliver blockchain projects within the EU. Contributing to two key areas of the EBSI project, Protokol was involved with the initial versions of the network and is now an active participant in the EBSI VECTOR project, which centres around verifying educational credentials and certifications between member states frictionlessly.
setting themselves as the commercial equivalent of #EBSI (which is more focused on governmental use cases). This means the team plans to get themselves perfectly aligned with EU regulations as eIDAS2 gets enacted this year. eIDAS2 is really happening, and $CHEQ is perfectly prepared to offer compliant solutions to companies who need to plug it into their tech stack.
AI Thoughts from the creator of the term Self-Sovereign ID
In 2024, the utility of words yielding philosophical clarity that becomes embedded into the design of systems being deployed globally, and Nationally, yields methods that must be structured accurately in order to abide by the Sovereign systems they serve.
When we're controlling access to something in the physical world—beer, a movie, a boarding gate, points in a loyalty program, prescriptions, and so on—we almost invariably use a zero trust model. We authorize every access. This isn't surprising, the physical world is remarkably decentralized and there aren't many natural boundaries to exploit and artificial boundaries are expensive and inconvenient.
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, our understanding of the concept of identity is going through a significant shift. It is moving towards decentralized identity technology, providing individuals, organizations, and even systems and devices increased autonomy over their digital identities. Let’s understand how identity disruptors such as verifiable credentials, policy frameworks, and generative AI are reshaping identity by making it more secure, privacy-focused, user-centric, and interoperable
The AGDIS rules (to be developed after the Bill is enacted) will almost certainly embrace mobile phone digital wallets as carriers of Digital IDs. A large and fast-growing proportion of Australians are now familiar with using their payment cards in mobile wallets to “tap and pay” and “click to pay” (the Reserve Bank reports that 35% of card payments are now made via mobile wallets).
404 Media (the name of both the publication and its parent company) says a site known as OnlyFake is capable of making all kinds of digital identity fraud far easier and cheaper to carry out than most other avenues.
All digital identities are simulacra, in the sense that the processes of capture and reproduction of the identity are inherently flattening and imitative. The representation of self held within a digital identity is modified by the system and the hardware apparatus that supports the system itself. Pressing the organic world into silicon for the purposes of assembling a sort of diorama representation is achieved through standardisation and serialisation.
National digital identity schemes are expected to be up and running across Australia and New Zealand from mid-year. There has been a flurry of activity around digital ID schemes – which as their name suggests provide a way for individuals to prove their identity, without having to constantly provide identification documents
