As the most coordinated and advanced effort in building open digital identity infrastructure that emerged out of the Global South, MOSIP has been able to attract influential funders, such as the Gates Foundation, Omidyar Network and Tata Trusts, and secure a significant amount of investment and resources to support its development.
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[Ethiopia] MOSIP Connect 03/5-7 (Kaliya is there there)
The evolution of identity is a dynamic process that continues to change and adapt as technology and societal attitudes evolve. The recent annual event hosted by IDnext association, "The state of Identity," showcased the latest developments in privacy, trust, inclusiveness, data, AI, ethical, safety, social, and assurance. The conference emphasized the delicate balance between enhancing security, protecting privacy, and ensuring individual rights.
they make a vague mention that it is the “authorize endpoint of Open ID Connect.” If you’re wondering… that’s not how “OpenID” is spelled–this lack of attention to detail is typical. There is no mention of which version of OpenID Connect was used (probably 1.0 incorporating errata set
A data model and protocol for refreshing Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Credentials can expire. It is useful to provide instructions on refreshing the credential for the times when expiration is imminent or has already occurred. The refresh can be performed manually or, with the prior consent of the credential holder, automatically.
This document specifies manual and automatic refresh mechanisms that Verifiable Credential issuers can utilize to enhance the experience when using their credentials.
Watch this recording with Global Blockchain Business Council’s Global Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI) 4.0 Digital Identity Working Group, as chair Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay (Dhiway), and GBBC's Diana Barrero Zalles and James Loperfido unpack the GSMI 4.0 Digital Identity report, including the challenges encountered in digital identifiers and action needed to drive the technology forward.
Enter the Open Credentialing Initiative (OCI) trust framework, a set of standards designed to facilitate secure, interoperable digital identities and credentials across various industries, including pharma. This framework is vital for ensuring that digital identities are managed in a trustworthy manner.
“This certification begins an exciting journey in providing certainty to the market through trusted services subject to DIACC’s certification program, designed around ISO/IEC 17065,” said DIACC President Joni Brennan. “For Oliu, achieving the certification demonstrates its commitment to providing trustworthy and reliable digital identity verification services and advancing secure and interoperable digital trust and identity services in Canada.“
Per the release, with a license for Indico Proven, USA Kansas will be able to quickly issue and verify transcript records for professional development training opportunities and issue verifiable learner records using the Open Badges 3.0 specification.
Digital Yatra is a decentralized identity platform that aims to simplify and secure the travel experience for passengers in India. It uses self-sovereign identity (SSI) technology to enable passengers to control their own data and share it with airports and airlines in a secure and privacy-preserving manner. The platform is currently available at 13 airports in India and is connected to the Adar infrastructure for identity verification.
Any organization, both in the public and private sectors, can adopt QuarkID technology to develop digital solutions that improve the user experience in making their credentials available. The Government of the City of Buenos Aires thus promotes a protocol that enables digital interactions without intermediaries, simplifying transactions and allowing people to have all their documents in one place, both those issued by public and private institutions, in Argentina and the world.
the Extrimian Academy provides free access to carefully designed materials not only to understand but also to effectively implement digital identity solutions, including the use of QuarkID as the main protocol.
According to the regulation adopted on Thursday, and already agreed upon with EU ministers, this new Digital Identity Wallet will allow citizens to identify and authenticate themselves online without having to resort to commercial providers
EBSI-CAN focuses on measures to improve cross-border services and verification mechanisms for educational credentials between European and Canadian citizens by exploring the potential deployment of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), a technology developed by the European Commission as public good. The collaboration also supports the significant data standard and exchange efforts in Canada to adopt and align with the PESC XML standards.
National Digital Identity (NDI) was awarded for the best innovation in the ‘Identity and Data’ category at the Mobile Ecosystem Forum or MEF Summit 2024 at Barcelona in Spain. The award was presented to the Druk Holding and Investments on Monday. Bhutan NDI, designed on the principles of self-sovereign identity, impressed voters on a panel of industry leaders with its capabilities.
We propose a privacy-preserving educational credential management scheme based on decentralized identity and zero-knowledge proof. The scheme incorporates a decentralized identity authentication model utilizing blockchain technology, enabling flexible issuance and point-to-point sharing of educational credentials. Furthermore, by employing privacy-preserving credentials designed with zero-knowledge proofs, we can eliminate potential privacy breaches when students present their credentials. We also have developed a system prototype and conducted performance evaluations, thereby validating the correctness and practicality of our scheme.
presents the effective use of DID implementation to provide a secure and decentralized way to create, associate and verify credentials and identities of ABSs, ensuring secure communication between Ground Base stations (GBSs) and other nodes in the network in a multi-operator scenario
When it comes to digitalised trade certificates (represented as Verifiable Credentials), DIDs allow participation and verification of digital documents without relying on a centralised and foreign authority. In fact, the possession of a DID by each actor allows playing different and decoupled roles at different tim
The big picture: Say goodbye to “What is your mother’s maiden name?” With reusable credentials, credit unions will revolutionize their operations and create an incredible member experience with seamless interactions in every channel.
Verifiable credentials are pieces of information that users can store in a digital wallet and use independently from the issuer. This is not possible in common authentication protocols such as SAML or OpenID Connect, where the issuer is always present and can trace the user's activities.
Digital identity is fundamental to make the metaverse a safe space. Assuming this is done right and the metaverse has an identity layer built in from the start, it could become a safer, less expensive, and therefore more desirable, place to transact than the “real world”.
Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business will be published in late April 2024. To pre-order, click here.
Humanity Protocol (HP) has officially been announced as a direct competitor to Worldcoin.
HP is relying on palmprint scans, which the startup describes as “a less invasive identity verification alternative”. The startup has received backing from venture capital firms including Hashed, CMCC, Cypher Capital, Foresight Ventures, and Mechanism Capital.
Today, the potential of AI is so immense that Simon Westh Henriksen, the CTO of Kin, believes personal AI will be one of the most valuable digital assets we own in the future. Simon and his team built Kin. They describe it as "your personal AI assistant for your private life." The intended persona for Kin is a mix between a life coach and a close friend.
