Identosphere 225 Feb 12-28 W3C Team: Identity & the Web • CREDEBL -> LFDT • Digital Product Passport
Identosphere’s Highlights: Feb 12-28
Infominer moved on to new opportunities and this is a catchup post covering Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identity for Feb 12-28.
Identity & the Web published W3C Team Publishes
by Simone Onofri: This is well researched and gives a good history of identity along with an overview of understanding the landscape.
[DIF] Cryptographic Pseudonyms: A Short History
Projects/Working Groups
New W3C Working Group Federated Identity Working Group Charter
The mission of the Federated Identity Working Group is to develop specifications that enable users to authenticate an identity or present a credential or set of claims, in a way that is compatible with other protocols and is supportive of user security, privacy and agency.
DIF: 3 reasons why you should join the DIDComm User Group Meeting
1. See Demonstrations and Presentations from Other DIDComm Implementers
2. Receive Help with Your DIDComm Implementation
3. Learn About DIDComm Adoption Across Industries and Regions
CREDEBL is now a part of LF Decentralized Trust ecosystem [Annoucement on Ayanworks]
CREDEBL [Home page]
Welcome to CREDEBL, a Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust project.
CREDEBL is an open-source Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials Management Platform used for national digital ID projects in Bhutan and Papua New Guinea, as well as the Sovio.id platform by AYANWORKS.
Recognized as a Digital Public Good (DPG) by the UN-endorsed DPG Alliance, CREDEBL is listed in the DPG registry.
[Humanity] What is Humanity Protocol? A Private Decentralized Identity for Everyone
For this, the Humanity Protocol employs palm recognition technology. Why the palm, you ask? It’s because the intricate patterns and complexity of a person’s palm make it incredibly difficult — if not impossible — to find two identical matches, ensuring both uniqueness and security.
Recently, the team unveiled the Humanity Foundation, an initiative designed to foster the growth of a vibrant ecosystem built on the Humanity Protocol. The foundation will focus on ecosystem development via a designated fund and various community growth incentive
AI For Developing Countries
Human Colossus Foundation at the 2025 Geneva Winter Summit: AI for Developing Countries
At the core of HCF’s contribution were two topics:
The importance of access to accurate data and its provenance in AI training especially for small and less digitalize nations.
The role of distributed governance in fostering ethical AI Agents ecosystems which can give the edge for developing countries without need to build massive data centers for huge AI models.
Digital Product Passports
Empowering Digital Product Passports: OwnYourData’s Role in Secure and Interoperable Data Ecosystems
We are excited to announce OwnYourData’s involvement in the groundbreaking PACE-DPP project: Promoting Accelerated Circular Economy through Digital Product Passports, spearheaded by Virtual Vehicle. As a key consortium partner, OwnYourData is leading the crucial work focused on Data Intermediaries in the work package 4 DPP Data Ecosystem.
The Digital Future of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
The Consumer Packaged Goods industry faces mounting pressure from consumers demanding transparency (70% want detailed product information) and new regulations like the EU's ESPR and UFLPA, while dealing with data breaches and supply chain disruptions that erode trust and increase costs. Digital Product Passports (DPPs) represent a crucial solution by enabling verifiable, trusted data exchange across the value chain to address these challenges.
Explainers
[SpruceID] (explainer) Decentralized Identity Overview
Includes: A Social Theory of Decentralized Identity
Breaking the momentum of decades of centralized server/client architectures and "user accounts" requires a rethinking of the basic assumptions of data management, as well as data business. This requires imagining forms of information that can be self-securing, highly portable, self-verifying, and not bound too tightly to their original context and architecture. While this may sound like an esoteric problem for computer science, it is also a political, legal, and social question, because it requires reconceiving of the roles and rights of all the parties to data exchanges.
EUDI wallets: challenges and opportunities in public sector
Wallets offer opportunities for privacy-friendly, proactive services and new use cases based on verifiable data. Are you wondering how your organisation can utilise opportunities of wallets or how your organisation can start? Last year InnoValor conducted research, exploring the impact of wallets in the Dutch public sector. In this blog, we share the most important insights.
[Gataca] (Explainer) Guide: Digital Identity Wallets Explained
Research
A Survey on Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials
This paper surveys Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs), recently standardized by the W3C as core technologies for Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) systems. These technologies enable individuals and entities to have full control over their digital identities in a decentralized manner, extending beyond personal use to cloud, edge, and IoT resources. The authors analyze security threats, available implementations, regulatory landscape, and adoption across various application domains. They also identify key challenges preventing widespread real-world adoption and propose future research directions.
Workforce
Gartner’s Right: Why Workforce Identity Verification Can’t Wait
Gartner VP Analyst Akif Khan has good reason to believe workforce use cases for identity verification (IDV) will gain serious traction in 2025. Having received just five calls about the topic in the first five of his six years on Gartner’s IAM team, he reports there’s been a major spike in such queries in recent months.
WorldCoin Watch
Revolutionizing Finance: Worldcoin’s Bold Decentralized Identity Launch in Indonesia
A hype filled piece about the launch.
Thoughtful
If Im The Problem, You Might Be The Reason
A poem from the Moxy Tongue about the state of the world and owning your root