Identosphere 38a • ¡Help Wanted! • Improving US Cybersecurity • Korea adopts decentralized ID

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Coming up

7 Principles of Digital Being Identiverse - Nat Sakimura • June 30
Affinidi Partners With Sudan’s Tech for Hack the Mountains 2.0 June 26-27
Identihack | DIDI (LatAm Hackathon) • 6/28-7/16

34th The European Association for e-Identity and Security Annual Conference• 6/29-7/1
‘Securing Trust in the New Digital Reality’ (Kaliya is speaking)
Liz Tanner: Rhode Island digital government on track with identity blockchain July 2
Iowa .NET User Group with IdRamp Moving Beyond the Password • 7/8
Special Topics IIW
- User-Experience 7/22
- Business of SSI 8/4
IIW 33 October 12-14th Virtual

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Literature

On the Trust and Trust Modelling for the Future Fully-Connected Digital World: A Comprehensive Study

Under our analysis of trust and the digital world, we define differenttypes of trust relationships and find out the factors that are needed to ensure a fully representative model.Next, to meet the challenges of digital trust modelling, comprehensive trust model evaluation criteria areproposed, and potential securities and privacy issues of trust modelling are analyzed. Finally, we provide awide-ranging analysis of different methodologies, mathematical theories, and how they can be applied totrust modelling

Self-Sovereignty for Refugees? The Contested Horizons of Digital Identity

I identify a series of competing logics in the debates around SSI’s emancipatory potential, which relate to four issues: (i) the neutrality of the technology, (ii) the capacities of refugees, (iii) global governance and the nation state, and (iv) new economic models for digital identity. SSI is simultaneously the potential enabler of new modes of empowerment, autonomy and data security for refugees and a means of maintaining and extending bureaucratic and commercial power. I situate SSI in a genealogy of systems of identity control and argue that, in practice, it is likely to feed into the powers of corporations and states over refugee populations.

zkKYC A solution concept for KYC without knowing your customer, leveraging self-sovereign identity and zero-knowledge proofs

The proposed solution concept, zkKYC, removes the need for the customer toshare any personal information with a regulated business for the purpose of KYC, and yet providesthe transparency to allow for a customer to be identified if and when that is ruled necessary by adesignated governing entity (e.g. regulator, law enforcement).

SSI Book Available for Purchase

Self-Sovereign Identity : Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials Manning

It combines a clear, jargon-free introduction to this blockchain-inspired paradigm shift with interesting essays written by its leading practitioners. Whether for property transfer, ebanking, frictionless travel, or personalized services, the SSI model for digital trust will reshape our collective future.

High level

What Is Authentication? 1Kosmos

Authentication is the process of proving that a user is who they claim to be to access system resources or features. Typically, this calls for some type of proof, whether that is a physical piece of information, a secret piece of information or some other immutable form of evidence.

Digital Identity Wallet: A place for your self-sovereign identity SSI Ambassador

A digital identity wallet enables a user to establish relationships and interact with third parties in a trusted manner. While the wallet aspect is mainly dealing with key management, storage aspects and the graphical interface (UI = User Interface), the third party interactions are rather organised by your agent, which is a part of your wallet.

Self-Sovereign Identity: What You Can/Can’t Do With SSI? Affinidi

Personal Identity and the Future of Digital Interactions Ping Identity

What if individuals could determine how to share data and with whom? What if that data was always up to date? And what if instead of merely having a unified customer profile in a single company, each person could have one identity experience for all the companies and people they interact with?

Public Sector

The Trust Economy in a Future New Zealand

Now with the 4th industrial (digital) revolution the old vertical, siloed trust models are breaking down and we are moving to a more horizontal, distributed environment.

A Collaborative Approach to Meeting the Challenges in President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving US Cybersecurity

One key aspect outlined in Section 4 of the Executive Order (EO) is securing the software supply chain. At issue here is the reality that the U.S. federal government—like nearly any other organization on the planet that uses computer technology in any form—relies on not just one but numerous types of software to process data and run operational equipment.

South Korea’s brilliant decentralized approach to citizen identity management TechWire Asia

Adopting blockchain technology is seen as a necessity by the Korean government and multiple institutions are backing its continuous research and development, including the Ministry of Science and Technology (ICT), The Korea Internet Security Agency (KISA), Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), and Korea Post among others.

LG CNS wins Korean government contract for decentralized identity for driver’s licenses Ledger Insights

Adopting DID technology provides numerous benefits but two stand out. Firstly, it should make it far harder to forge a license because credentials can be verified. Additionally, OmniOne includes FIDO biometric security. The second key benefit is that an individual can choose how much data to share.

Company News

Wider’s High Assurance Digital Identity Maturity Model Wider Team

It starts with IdentityOps embracing high assurance for connected devices. You’re bringing together internal stakeholders from your network management, security, procurement, legal, and device care teams. You’re bringing in clinical outcome quality professionals concerned with data provenance, from clinicians who touch your devices and authenticate through them and authorize them to provide services.

Apple iPhones Can Soon Hold Your ID. Privacy Experts Are On Edge

Elizabeth Renieris, a fellow at Stanford University who studies digital identification systems, said the feature may be easy-to-use and save time. Those conveniences, however, come at a cost: Turning every instance in which we show our ID into a business opportunity.

Encoding Trust that Travels with Data — A New Product Introduction Case Study Powered by Solutions Design with Transmute

underpinned by GS1 as a root of trust in the network — continuing a rich history for GS1 in this role. GS1 licenses and identifiers are and will continue to be at the foundation of trusting products and companies. Combining current practices with verifiable credential, decentralized identifier, and GS1 Digital Link standards disambiguating products builds business reputation for just-in-time engagement while keeping information up to date.

The Future of Digital Identity in Canada: Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Verified.Me SecureKey

Verified.Me ensures that only authorized attributes are shared with explicit user consent. The service bridges together multiple participants within a common ecosystem to verify the identities of users securely and privately across the participating organizations with others within the group.

Datarella Launches SSI Wallet For Innovative Identity Management

It can be integrated into new or existing ecosystems and provide fundamental decentralized identity infrastructure for users to authenticate, issue and receive Verifiable Credentials or transfer data. This allows for many innovative use cases like credential-based access management, automatic credential verification or trusted data transfer.

Covid 19

Panel: Paving the Way to a Safer Travel Experience - Heather Dahl, & Scott Harris & Adrien Sanglier

Together SITA and Indicio.tech utilized Hyperledger Aries, Ursa, and Indy to create a secure travel credential that is accepted by airlines, hotels and hospitality partners without sharing private health information. In this panel discussion, SITA and Indicio.tech will share their journey of applying verifiable credentials in commercial aviation and travel/hospitality to make it easy for visitors entering a country to share a trusted traveler credential – based on their health status, yet revealing no personal information or health data – privately and securely on their mobile device.

Women and platform livelihoods in Kenya: The impact of COVID-19

We are starting a new research project — and we’d like you to join us on the journey. Over the course of 2021, Qhala and Caribou Digital, with the support of the Mastercard Foundation, will work to understand the impact of COVID-19 on young women’s experiences working or selling through online platforms in Kenya.