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Upcoming Events
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[Cape Town] DID:Unconf Africa 2/18-20
Road to EIC: Beyond the Wallet - Building Network Effects for Digital Identity Adoption 2/19
[Orlando] Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2025 3/3-5
[Zurich] Digital Identity Unconference Europe - Ecosystems 3/4-5 (Kaliya will be there)
[Manila] MOSIP Connect - 3/11-13 (Kaliya will be there)
[London] Future Identity Finance 3/19
[Amsterdam] EU Digital Identity Wallet at the Future of Dutch Payments 3/27
[Netherlands] IDM Europe 4/1
[California] Internet Identity Workshop #40 4/8-10. (Kaliya will be there)
[Washington DC] IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2025 4/21-24
[San Francisco] RSA Conference 2025 4/28-5/1
AuthZEN Interoperability Session at Gartner IAM London 2025-02-03 Elizabeth Garber; OpenID
The OpenID Foundation is excited to share that it will host its first AuthZEN interoperability session at the Gartner IAM Summit in London, March 24-25, 2025.
Request for Comment & IPR Review: PCTF Law Society Profile and PCTF Glossary 2025-02-03 DIACC
DIACC is collaborating to develop and publish the Law Society Profile of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF) to set a baseline interoperability of identity services and solutions used in the legal sector. During this public review period, DIACC is looking for community feedback to ensure that the conformance criteria is clear and auditable.
Government
Personhood Credentials Recognized in Privacy Papers for Policymakers Awards 2025-02-06 SpruceID
highlighting its impact on digital credentials and AI trust.
Finland’s DVV Advances EU Digital Wallet Testing with Amadeus Travel Integration 2025-02-06 IDTechwire.com
€46 million investment from European Commission through Digital Europe Programme
Comprising approximately 60 organizations, working toward full implementation of EUDI Wallet across member states by 2026
Recent developments: release of new payment integration specifications and exploration of additional functionalities through various pilot programs
[video] Event Takeaways: Digital ID and Trust in Europe: Opportunities and Challenges 2025-02-24 Dock
Governments must provide technical and financial support for SMEs.
Businesses should begin compliance preparations early to avoid bottlenecks.
By 2026, 170+ trust service providers will need certification, but there are only about 30 accredited auditors. We’re facing a compliance bottleneck.
Indicio Proven’s EUDI wallet integration 2025-02-05 Trevor Butterworth; indicio
Instant KYC verification, avoid sensitive data storage
Compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations
Seamless digital travel: preauthorized travel, easy border crossing
Digitize public services: simplify complex processes, reduce fraud
Business licenses and certifications: authenticated anywhere repeatedly.
Standards Development
Decentralized Identifier Resolution (DID Resolution) v0.3 2025-02-06
The updates particularly emphasize verifiable equivalence between identifiers and temporal resolution capabilities, addressing critical gaps in decentralized identity management systems. Implementers should note the new requirement to handle both data models and document streams in resolution workflows.
[presentation] FOSDEM 2025 - We need Disposable Digital Identities fosdem.org
This presentation and demo will focus on core ideas, challenges and developments in the area of Disposable Identities; a technical branch of Self Sovereign Identity. We discuss core principles and requirements of Disposable Identities and why we believe this development direction is imperative for Europe.
Proposed Candidate Recommendation for Controlled Identifiers 2025-02-04 Mike Jones; self-issued.info
Two of these specifications, including Securing Verifiable Credentials using JOSE and COSE, depend upon the Controlled Identifiers specification.
The planned update to the W3C DID (Decentralized Identifier) specification also plans to take a dependency on it.
Twenty Years of Digital Identity! Mike Jones; self-issued.info celebrating IIW
Attended first Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) in 2005
Foundational decisions for JWS, JWE, JWK, JWT, OpenID Connect made at IIW
Privilege of working with many characters and continuing collaborations
Plenty of consequential work ongoing, looking forward to future achievements.
Company Stories
Indicio Q1 Webinar 2025 Indicio
The identity verification (IDV) industry is at a critical juncture. Fragmented systems and inconsistent data handling have led to €5 billion in annual losses, while customers face frustrating, repetitive verification processes.
Hovi Partners with Privado.ID to Simplify Digital Identity & Trust Hovi.id
Integration of trust ecosystem: simplifies building use cases in various industries using verifiable credentials and self-sovereign identity with powerful features.
Technology Startups: fast, effective password-less verifications, elimination of SMS OTP verification costs, and reduction of compliance headaches for scaling businesses.
Healthcare Providers: secure sharing of patient data while ensuring privacy and giving patients control over their records.
E-Commerce Platforms: implementation of verifiable credentials for age verification, fast checkout, fraud prevention, and customer safety.
Educational Institutions: issuance of tamper-proof digital certificates to authenticate proof of education and skills.
Signaturit to Acquire Validated ID, Strengthening its European Leadership in Digital Trust Services Signaturit
Signaturit Group acquires Validated ID and reinforces its leadership in secure digital transactions in Europe, extending its expertise in eIDAS 2.0 digital identities and exceeding €70M in recurring revenues.
Signaturit Group to Acquire Validated ID, Expanding European Digital Trust Services Portfolio 2025-02-06 IDTechwire.com
Empowering the Future of Data Ownership: Why Decentralized Identity Matters ArcBlock
The digital landscape is evolving at breakneck speed. Our daily lives—from gaming to workplace collaboration—are increasingly mediated by tech giants
Use-Cases
[video] Trustless Cross-border Data Validation: The Role of Verifiable Credentials and APIs 2025-01-20 United Nations ESCAP
the role of verifiable credentials and APIs in enabling paperless trade and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of trade data.
Air travel made easy: Digi Yatra app crosses 10 million downloads The Tribune
Digi Yatra, established in December 2022 is a Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)-based ecosystem utilising facial biometric technology for contactless and seamless passenger processing at airports, delivering privacy-protecting and efficient travel experiences across 24 airports in India.
Organization News
CREDEBL Becomes an LF Decentralized Trust Project Ajay Jadhav; LFDecentralizedtrust.org
Why Move to LF Decentralized Trust?
Access to collaborative environment and resources that will accelerate global adoption of decentralized identity technologies
Diverse contributor base reduces reliance on a single entity and ensures resilience as CREDEBL scales
Supports industry standards like W3C DID, VC, Trust Over IP, DIF, OIDC4VC, ISO mDL, and leading blockchains to lay foundation for decentralized identity ecosystem
DIF Newsletter #48 2025-02-03 blog.identity.foundation
Working Group Updates: DID Methods, Identifiers and Discovery, Credential Schemas, Applied Crypto, BBS+
DID Methods: evaluating self-certifying identifier methods
Identifiers and Discovery: substantial progress towards specification readiness
Credential Schemas: reviewed Proof of Age workshop outcomes
Applied Crypto: developing trust model for ZKP self-attestations, refining API designs, addressing test vectors
BBS+: weekly meetings focusing on blind signatures and pseudonyms, exploring post-quantum privacy
Credo: Heading Into 2025, Releases 0.5 and 0.6, and How We’re Becoming a Central Player in Global Interoperability 2025-02-05 OpenWallet Foundation
Future Goals:
Align with ongoing interop efforts: ARF, DIIP, HAIP
Support Decentralized Identity Interop Profile V3/4 (DIIP) and new versions of the High Assurance Interoperability Profile (HAIP)
Work on DIDComm v2, trust establishment, and trust registries using OpenID Federation for release 0.6 in 2025.
Integrated Trust Network (ITN) 2022-05-26 MOBI
ITN: Federated network offering trusted identity services built on W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
Created by MOBI members and other consortia like MEF and AAIS
Leverages DLT to establish and maintain trust during transactions, eliminating intermediaries, reducing cyber threats.
Transforming Healthcare Credentialing: An Update from Velocity Network Foundation 2025-02-04 Velocity
Velocity Network Foundation (VNF) and SkillsONWARD Program:
Organization committed to transforming learning and employment record sharing globally
Over 47,000 background screenings completed for healthcare practitioners in Florida and Texas
Opt-in rate for accepting verifiable credentials: 81%
Velocity Network Foundation - New Year Updates 2025-02-03 Velocity
New Members: Arkansas, Digital Promise, 1EdTech, REC
Adoption Updates: US Healthcare, European Banking, India IT Services, Global Education
Product Updates: Trust, Digital Wallets, Data Schemas (Nursing License, CLR), PDF Attachments
Dr. Meagan Treadway joins Velocity's board 2025-02-07 Velocity
🚀 Celebrating Innovation: Winners of the DIF Hackathon 2024 2025-02-05 blog.identity.foundation
Highlights
Future of Education and the Workforce Track - CVC revolutionizes CVs
Reusable Identity Track: - Pinata: Best Overall Proof of Personhood Credentials Winner
Decentralized Identity Applications Track: - TodaI: Enables seamless registration and authentication without usernames, passwords, or third-party
KCC TBD Hackathon - First Place: kcc-tbdex: using Javascript to record Verifiable Credential JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) in Alice's Decentralized World Network (DWN) and retrieve the record ID.
Ontology Awards: - CrediLink connect: A browser extension built with indy-bex-connector to combat LinkedIn scams by enabling wallet creation, VC management, and proof verification.
Research
[arxiv] Privacy by Design for Self-Sovereign Identity Systems: An in-depth Component Analysis completed by a Design Assistance Dashboard 2025-02-04 Montassar Naghmouchi
the article proposes (1) to group the elementary building blocks of a SSI system into 5 structuring layers, (2) to analyze for each layer the privacy implications of using the chosen building block, and (3) to provide a design assistance dashboard that gives the complete picture of the SSI, and shows the interdependencies between architectural choices and technical building blocks, allowing designers to make informed choices and graphically achieve a SSI solution that meets their need for privacy.
Exploring Potential Impacts of Self-Sovereign Identity on Smart Service Systems 2021-06
Although SSI is still emerging, our findings underline its relevance as a mechanism to establish trust in smart service systems through the seamless and standardised integration of digital identities for humans, organisations, and things.
New Social
[twitter] TikTok replacements in the Fediverse 2025-02-04 j4ckxyz
Main one for cross platform is http://reelo.app (not released yet tho) - that’s atproto But on iOS: Bluescreen and Videos for Bluesky apps.apple.com
Little Feed Reader (@feediverse.bsky.social) bsky.app
A little feed reader in Bluesky by @scripting.com.
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