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Upcoming - new August events IIW

• The Business of Self-Sovereign Identity - IIW Special Topic 1/2 day event - August 4th

• Digital Identity Across Asia - IIW Special Topic 1/2 day event- August 9th (Evening August 8th US)

• Exploring digital identity for a Decentralized Society — a RadicalxChange Open Space (virtual) unConference - Save the Date August 16th and 18th.

• Decentralized Web Camp 8/24-28 in Northern California (Kaliya’s attending & encouraging SSI folks to participate)

• Hyper Ledger Global Forum 9/12-14

• Open Source Summit Europe Linux Foundation , Dublin Ireland 9/13-16

• Identity Week USA (formerly Connect:ID) Washington DC 10/4-5

• Internet Identity Workshop #35 11/14-16, Mountain View CA

• Engineer your world this summer: K-University student + teacher opportunities KidOYO

Grants

Unfinished & Filecoin Foundation offering grants from $10-100K to build a better internet with decentralized tech DEADLINE: July 18

We want to help you learn, explore, and educate others. These grants are intended to provide you with the support to catalyze your own learning in web3."  

Application is just a paragraph; Individuals or organizations can apply; 

Funding

Trinsic just raised $8.5M  🎉  and we want to celebrate with you! 

developers face a dizzying number of standards to be compatible with—“SoulBound Tokens” and “Web5” being the latest additions to the litany of W3C, ISO, DIF, ToIP, and other existing specs. Trinsic offers teams a single API that acts as an abstraction layer that bridges ecosystems

3 years ago today, we started Trinsic to make decentralized identity real Tweet Thread by Riley 

Interoperability 

JFF & VC-EDU Plugfest #1: Leaping Towards Interoperable Verifiable Learning & Employment Records Kayaelle

With this badge, they qualify to participate in Plugfest #2 which will focus on issuing and displaying LER VCs. Plugfest #2 will take place in November 2022 with plans to meet in person the day before the Internet Identity Workshop on November 14 in Mountainview, CA.

DID Core advances to recommendation 

Objections overruled by W3C director approving the DIDCore specification as a W3C Recommendation W3C

The DID core specification is approved to advance to W3C Recommendation.

In its next chartered period the Working Group should address and deliver proposed standard DID method(s) and demonstrate interoperable implementations. 

Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification approved as W3C Recommendation Identity Foundatoin

Announcing the Decentralized Identifiers (DID) v1.0 specification as an open web standard signals that it is technically sound, mature, and ready for widespread adoption.

Organizations

Kaliya was elected to the DIF steering committee Decentralized Identity Foundation

Thanks for your Votes!

The six elected candidates are Sam Curren (Indicio Tech), Daniel Buchner (Block), Karyl Fowler (Transmute), Rouven Heck (Consensys Mesh, Executive Director at DIF), Markus Sabadello (DanubeTech) & Kaliya Young (Identity Woman). Sam, Karyl, Markus and Rouven have been re-elected

W3C to become a public-interest non-profit organization W3.org

our evolution to a public-interest non-profit is not just to continue our community effort, but to mature and grow to meet the needs of the web of the future.

Getting Identity Right. At Last. MyDex

By recognising the pivotal importance of verified attributes and the potential role of personal data stores in enabling the sharing of these attributes, it is opening the door to actually solving the problem of identity. At last.

Development

Upgradeable Decentralized Identity - DID Method Traits SpruceID

DID method traits are testable properties about DID methods that can help implementers tame complexity and choose the right DID method(s) for their use case.

Indexing and Querying Revoked Verifiable Credentials 51 Nodes

this article describes a simple approach to revoke verifiable credentials and a decentralized and efficient way to index and query those revoked credentials using the Graph protocol.

Keep Badges Weird is about breaking boundaries: How the KBW community is convening systems WeAreOpenCoop

We do not assume prior knowledge of Open Badges or Verifiable Credentials. We recognise and celebrate those who can share their experience. Anyone interested in badges or integrating Open Recognition are welcome to join.

chapi.io launches, includes VC playground Manu Sporny CCG

that helps developers integrate Verifiable Credential issuance, holding, and presentation into their applications

Public Sector

New Report on Limits of “Consent” in New Zealand's Data Protection Law - Future of Privacy Forum FPF (report)

• notice and consent requirements for processing personal data in New Zealand’s data protection law;

• the status of alternative legal bases for processing personal data which permit processing of personal data without consent if the data controller undertakes a risk impact assessment (e.g., legitimate interests); and

• statutory bases for processing personal data without consent and exceptions or derogations from consent requirements in-laws and regulations. 

Two in three Europeans intend to use the EU's Digital Identity Wallet NFCW

“The results of the survey certainly underline the need for this pioneering European initiative aiming at offering the most convenient user experience (UX) at the highest level of security,” the company adds

Explainer

• Simple Definitions for Complex Terms in Decentralized Identity Anonyme

• What is Self-Sovereign Identity? TangleLabs

• How Do Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identities Work? Oxford Computer Group

• vLEI 101 – the Verifiable Legal Entity Identifier Ubisecure

• SSI 101: Online identity and the history of identifiers Hypersign

• Digital Identity: Past; Present; Future Hypersign

• What Is Self-Sovereign Identity? Trinsic

• In-depth introduction to Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) Hypersign

Company Stories

JPMorgan Wants to Bring Trillions of Dollars of Tokenized Assets to DeFi Coindesk

Verifiable credentials are interesting because they can introduce the scale that you need to provide access to these pools without necessarily having to maintain a white list of addresses. Since verifiable credentials are not held on-chain, you don’t have the same overhead

Evernym June Release notes

there are several great posts on the Avast blog that show the combined thinking of the Avast, Evernym, and SecureKey teams:

• Identity is evolving — but the battle for privacy has only just begun

• The impact of self-sovereign identity on the cybersecurity world

• How Elon Musk can securely achieve his mission of authenticating Twitter users

• An analysis of EU digital identity architecture and reference framework

• eIDAS 2.0: How Europe can define the digital identity blueprint for the world

• SSI and FIDO2: Different approaches for a passwordless world

• Can digital identity help with the world refugee crisis?

• Consensus 2022 panel: Is Web 3.0 more hype or reality?

• Avast’s views on the proposed amendments to the eIDAS 2.0 regulation

• Avast demonstrates commitment to digital freedom with MyData membership

Building a more inclusive and equitable future GlobalID

Our vision has always been that anyone, anywhere should be able to create and own their self-sovereign digital identity. And along with that identity, they should get a wallet, providing them access to basic financial services.

Verifiable Credential Solution to Health Data Sharing Indicio

Cardea has laid the foundation for something much bigger than Covid testing. Verifiable credential technology provides a way for all kinds of health data to be shared in a privacy-preserving and security-enhanced way. 

KERI OOBI: Out-Of-Band-Introductions for discovery and validation of IP resources for KERI autonomic IDs

KERI - re-inventing everything 

Without a middleman, communication is one-on-one (also called peer-to-peer). With peer-to-peer communication that is cryptographical verifiable, you can be absolutely sure about who said what. And to do that, you need KERI’s globally available, self-certifiying, self-addressing identifiers to repair the internet. 

Web 3

How To Create a Verifiable Credentials Registry Smart Contract in Solidity Centre

you can use any blockchain you would like. For the sake of this guide, we will focus on Solidity, which is the programming language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

Soulbound Tokens, Self-Sovereign Identity, and the Pursuit of a Universal Identity Standard Conor Healy

The lack of a universal identity standard is holding us back; it’s harming collaborative processes and opening the door for bad actors and scams which breed mistrust and stigmatize the entire industry.

Getting Started with Ceramic

The Ceramic Network is a decentralized data network that aims to bring composable data to Web 3 dapps. There are many types of data that Ceramic can work with, but for this guide we can treat Ceramic like a decentralized NOSQL document database.

Freedom Corner

Women’s Rights and Technology Intersection feel very poignant this week

Section 230 Is a Last Line of Defense for Abortion Speech Online Wired

If they don’t start listening to the warnings of human rights experts, sex workers, LGBTQ+ folks, and reproductive rights groups, Democrats could help right-wing zealots achieve their goal: mass censorship of online content about abortion.

On Abortion and Data MyData

A basic insight of MyData is that the current systems of data are asymmetrical, imbalanced, and unfair. A basic motivation of MyData is to fix this by addressing business, legal, technical, and societal aspects of those systems. 

Identity not SSI

• ADOPTING NEW TECH: How to give your team the best chance of success The Engine Room

• What we've learned through our support for organizations working on building digital communities The Engine Room

• Fixing Web Login Phil Windley - Getting rid of passwords will mean we need to authenticate less often

Thoughtful Pieces not SSI particularly

Crossfunctionality Centre

I have developed a pet peeve for "technosolutionism": the notion that a sufficiently innovative technology can solve a social problem, or a business problem, without complex and nuanced changes to social and business practice. 

What does ‘open’ mean to you? WeAreOpenCoop

you can see the shift to words such as ‘inclusivity’ and phrases such as ‘being more accessible’ or ‘getting everyone involved’.

Research

Technical Design and Development of SSI Management Platform for Patient-Centric Health Care Blockchain Healthcare Today

we leveraged the Hyperledger Indy blockchain framework to store patient’s decentralized identifiers (DIDs) and the schemas or format for each credential type. In contrast, the credentials containing patient data are stored ‘off-ledger’ in each person’s wallet and accessible via a computer or smartphone.

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