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Identosphere 98 ● Getting real about Aries & Indy/AnnonCred ● Open Call: JFFLabs x VC-EDU PlugFest2 ● Mapping the Web3 ID Landscape

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Upcoming

● Hyperledger Global Forum 9/12-14
● Open Source Summit Europe Linux Foundation, Dublin Ireland 9/13-16
● Trust Over IP Summit (co-located with OSSE) Dublin, Ireland 9/14
● Self-Sovereign Identity - Blockchain’s Killer Application?! 9/27 Cryptovalley. Switzerland/Online 
● Blockchain Expo 9/20-21 Amsterdam\Online
● European Blockchain Week 9/29-10/5 Slovenia and Croatia 
● North Capital Forum by @USMexicoFound, 9/28-30 Mexico City - Transmute’s Thursday afternoon panel "Trust and Transparency in Trade: A Verifiably Digital Disruption"
● Identity Week USA (formerly Connect:ID) Washington DC 10/4-5
● Infrachain Summit 10/4 - The Summit is about real business – not the next hype. The event is centered on operational use cases in the world of 3rd party distributed trust.
● Internet Identity Workshop #35 11/14-16, Mountain View CA

Open Call: JFFLabs x VC-EDU PlugFest2 Registration Deadline Friday 9/9

The goal of PlugFest 2 is to issue a W3C Verifiable Credential in the Open Badges v3 format using Decentralized Identifiers to wallets using protocols that are popular in the education and workforce ecosystem.

New Post from Kaliya

Being “Real” about Hyperledger Indy & Aries / Anoncreds

This article surfaces a synthesis of challenges / concerns about Hyperledger Indy & Aries / Anoncreds, the most marketed Self-Sovereign Identity technical stack. It is aimed to provide both business and technical decision makers a better understanding of the real technical issues and related business risks of Hyperledger Indy & Aries / Anoncreds, which have not been shared and discussed openly or publicly as the author believes need to be.

Decentralization

The Handbook of Handbooks for Decentralised Organising

a mega list of handbooks and toolkits for groups working without top-down management from social movements to workplaces open source for anyone to read, update, share

Web 3

Bankless: The Decentralized Identity Revolution good long article

Web3 digital identity — soulbound tokens, verifiable credentials, and Proof of Personhood projects — represent a credible alternative to formulating digital identities in a decentralized, bottom-up manner.

Although their methods differ, these builders are aligned in the same goal: Enabling individuals to create a rich social layer without reliance on central issuers.

Mapping the Web3 Identity Landscape Dommy.eth

EPIC overview of Web3 identity projects 

Now, when it comes to defining and verifying identity, a few distinct approaches pop up [Transactional Identity, Personal Identity, Collateralized Identity, Social Identity, Repetitional Identity, Data Identity, Credentialing Services, Authentication]

Soulbound Tokens Over Self-Sovereign Identity: A Good Idea for Web3? Analytics Insight

Soulbound tokens are based on a concept first popularized by online role-playing multiplayer games like World of Warcraft.

Soulbound Tokens vs Self-Sovereign Identity: Web3’s Search for a Digital ID Solution

SSI differs in that their default visibility is private and off-ledger, whereas SBTs are proposed as public and on-ledger by default. 

The 5 people empowerment promises of web3 Reb00ted

Johannes riffing on this post with a great chart 

Policy

Beijing will regulate ‘digital humans’ in the metaverse and beyond Rest of World

The plan also signals that Beijing will take a more active role in handling the personal data generated by these platforms. Some of the directives outlined in the plan require any user-facing aspect of the digital human industry to be subject to rules that protect information about and generated by platform users, while also treating user data as a resource to be traded on the country’s new data exchanges. 

Standards Work

Issues with Potential Wallet/API Lockin with Apple and Google

Thread on the CCG List that is very good: TL;DR: Apple and Google are incubating a Mobile Document Request API at W3C that creates a proprietary link between Apple Wallet and Google Wallet and the web browser for the delivery of ISO mDLs.

The API is concerning because it lists "Define the native communication between the User Agent and the application holding the mdoc." as out of scope. That is, digital wallet selection is out of scope. Also out of scope is "issuing" and "provisioning". The specification focuses on delivery from a digital wallet to a website.

Cute Learning Thread fennykyun

tldr :: DID is just an URI :: VC is a cryptographically verifiable credential using DID :: SSI is a self-sovereign and privacy-preserving identity :: Non-human (Machines, Bots, Goods, anything) also able to have DID, VC, and SSIs

Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity Empowered Cyber Threat Information Sharing Platform Siddhi

looks interesting and different - uses DIDComm

Presented in 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing(IEEE SmartComp 2021)

BCGov improves sustainability reporting with digital trust technology ToIP

Digital credentials can be checked in real time, expediting access to trustworthy information. These trusted, verifiable digital credentials are the core digital trust technologies being piloted and the trust ecosystem in which they operate are defined in ToIP architecture, governance, and related documents.   

Universal Resolver - resolve practically any DID Identity Foundation

The Universal Resolver can now resolve 45 DID methods, and more are being added regularly. Visit https://dev.uniresolver.io/ to see the full list of supported methods, and visit this github page to contribute a driver for a DID method. 

Mobile Document Request API

Apple, with support from Google, just announced the Mobile Document Request API Web Incubator CG

The API is concerning because it lists "Define the native communication between the User Agent and the application holding the mdoc." as out of scope. That is, digital wallet selection is out of scope. Also out of scope is "issuing" and "provisioning". The specification focuses on delivery from a digital wallet to a website.

Organization

Finnish tech co-op receives government grant to develop a self-sovereign identity network TheNews

The Finnish Government has awarded a €3m (£2.6m) grant to Findynet Cooperative for a pilot project aiming to build a self-sovereign identity network.

The Findynet Cooperative receives a government grant to develop a trusted way to share information in electronic interactions Findy.fi

The aim of this public-private cooperation is to strengthen Finland’s leading position in digitalization and support the emergence of investments in new digital services.

Avast Joins Trust over IP as a Steering Member TOIP

“It is finally time we had digital wallets with digital credentials that work exactly the same way our real-world wallets do,” said Mr. Reed. “We can take and use them anywhere to privately prove just what another party needs to know in the context of a particular transaction. We don’t have to go through any third-party gatekeeper to do this. That’s the way it should work in the digital world too.”

European Identity

EBSI: Innovation that respects our privacy is a joint effort

O’Neill’s Weapons of Math destruction, Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism, and Véliz’ recent Privacy is Power: these may have made it onto your summer reading list. And for good reason: wherever there is new technology, there is also concern for the respect of our European values. 

Explainer: eIDAS 2.0 - Introduction to The European Digital Identity Wallet & The Evolution of Self-Sovereign Identity

Until now, the eIDAS regulation has only focused on online identification. However, the new proposal – eIDAS 2.0 – aims to extend identity to the world of physical services which can be accessed from anywhere around the globe.

SSI subgrantee’s solutions booklet: download now! ESSIF-LAB ←report on NGI awardees (report)

After a tough competition among overall excellent proposals, eSSIF-LAB selected the 4 most promising proposals out of 42 submitted applications. 161 applications were started altogether, from 22 different countries.

5 reasons why professionals and enthusiasts of Self-Sovereign Information Sharing should look into EBSI

Self Sovereign Information sharing, where citizens stay in control of their information by choosing what and when to disclose it, and to whom EBSI enables self-sovereign Citizen-to-Government (C2G) and C2B (Citizen-to-Business) privacy-preserving information sharing.

Market Signals

Self-Sovereign Identity is up 114% on Exploding Topics over 5 years. 

Why Should You Care about Digital Identity? Indicio

We take a look at a few of the best articles on why strong digital identity will be critical as we continue to build on the internet.

● A Solution Looking for a Problem? Digital ID Solves a Million of  Them
● Goodbye, physical identities: How organizations can prepare for digital identity challenges
● Digital Identities Will Change The Nature Of Online Reputation

Pilot

Cerebrum Launches Identity Pittsburgh Initiative in Partnership with Carnegie Mellon University's ETIM Program PRNewswire

One example use case is medical records, which are often stored in central repositories and are hard for patients to access or share. Verifiable credentials offer an alternative — have patients store their medical records in digital wallets they control — which solves issues with interoperability, data ownership, and data access.

Recap

Gartner Identity & Access Management Las Vegas 2022 Review This Week in Identity

In this episode they covered the role of the identity hype cycle, how cloud identity is big, complex and here to stay, the importance of outcome related communications and management of IAM and how we're all gravitating towards identity centric security.

Industries

Energy Systems

Digital identities – building block for an automated energy system Smart Energy

New features include credential revocation and expiration, full support for role-authorised issuance, credential issuance based on email verification and asset administration as well as better alignment with the W3C’s Verifiable Credential Standards.

Unlocking the Potential of Self-Sovereign Identity for Enterprise with Energy Web Switchboard EnergyWeb

At Energy Web we believe self-sovereign identity (SSI) will become a fundamental pillar of the energy transition, enhancing interoperability and strengthening security for billions of assets, organizations, and customers.

Travel

Why the Travel Industry Should Care about SSI and DID PhocusWire

As chair of the Hospitality and Travel Special Interest Group within the Decentralized Identity Foundation, Price is one of the leading voices on how DID and SSI will impact all sectors of travel.

Traveller ID Ecosystem | ProofSpace x RateTiger Integration ProofSpace

Guests can reclaim, re-use and protect their personal data, the "Traveller ID", within the ecosystem of participating hotels.

The Traveller ID and other credentials in this solution are Atala PRISM Verifiable Credentials on Cardano blockchain - a global first for hospitality.

TSA Seeks Contractor for Upgraded Passenger Identification System FindBiometrics

Essentially, the TSA wants a CAT2 system that confirms and displays passenger information, including flight reservation information and pre-screening status, to TSA operators, and that uses facial recognition to match travelers to their photo ID.

Personal Data

Rulebook overcomes the lack of trust in data sharing MyData

The data sharing market is taking off and there is enormous uncaptured value. Many organisations are looking for new trustworthy ways to create value from data collaboration. Individuals can also benefit tremendously if data can be more readily shared across service providers.

Training: Building smart cities services 2.0 MyData

You will learn about business models, compliance with complex regulatory regimes, standards, and governance mechanisms. You will be connected with EU funding opportunities, and you will learn how to build successful partnerships with companies and cities

What Meta’s Profit Drop Might Say About Consumer Sentiment on Data Privacy Anyonyome

respondents said whether a platform protects their privacy and data was either extremely or very impactful when it comes to their decision to engage with ads.

Explainer

● What is decentralized identity in blockchain? Cointelegraph
● Are Self-Sovereign Identities on blockchain technology the future? Kook Content
● Self-sovereign identity: an ecosystem of digital identities Ergon
● Self-Sovereign Identity Explained Zaisan
● The Top Five Misconceptions around Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)

We all have a cybersecurity problem, and SSI represents the most current thinking to address it.  For that reason, we believe that SSI is not just another technology.

Beyond Identity

Radical generosity Out of the Box from Dark Matter

Could we establish an alternative market economy, one that is structured around a distinct set of principles centred on care, trust, generosity, the importance of collective intelligence and deep sets of relationships; what would fall away and what would remain in place?

We don’t normally cover AI - but…

Stable Diffusion is a really big deal Simon WIlson

It’s similar to models like Open AI’s DALL-E, but with one crucial difference: they released the whole thing.

Nurturing Adoption: Supporting Growth of Early-Stage AI Businesses in Scotland DigitalScot

This video shares a talk from the Scottish AI Summit, addressing how best we can support the commercialization of AI technologies to meet real-world needs.

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