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Blockcerts

Blockcerts is an open standard for building apps that issue and verify blockchain-based official records. These may include certificates for civic records, academic credentials, professional licenses, workforce development, and more. Blockcerts consists of open-source libraries, tools, and mobile...

Updated: 2023-06-02 less than 1 minute read

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BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
DHS
DID
Ethereum
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
RWoT
Verifiable Credentials

Hyperledger Aries

One of the architectural components of Indy is called an Agent. This is software that acts on behalf of an identity owner to communicate off-ledger with other Agents. As Agent work continued with the development of message encryption standards, extensible message typing, and common protocols, int...

Updated: 2023-06-12 7 minute read

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Aries
Bitcoin
Blockchain
DKMS
Indy
Verifiable Organizations Network

eIDAS - European Electronic Identification and Trust Services

This Regulation seeks to enhance trust in electronic transactions in the internal market by providing a common foundation for secure electronic interaction between citizens, businesses and public authorities, thereby increasing the effectiveness of public and private online services, electronic b...

Updated: 2023-06-08 17 minute read

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EU
EUDI Framework
EUDI Wallet
Europe
Policy
Trust Framework
eIDAS
eIDAS Bridge
eIDAS2

JSON-LD - W3C

The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data Like the web of hypertext, the web of data is constructed with documents on...

Updated: 2023-05-19 less than 1 minute read

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Credentials Community Group
Digital Bazaar
JSON-LD
Linked Data
RDF
Schema.org
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

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Accenture
BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockchain for Impact
Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DHS
DKMS
DPKI
Decentralized Identifiers
Digital Bazaar
ERC725
Ethereum
Evernym
GDPR
Humanitarian
IBM
ID2020
Indy
Learning Machine
Linked Data
Mastercard
Microsoft
MyData
PGP
RWoT
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
UN/CEFACT
UNDP
UNHCR
UNSDGs
Universal Resolver
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
WEF
XDI
uPort

History (2010-2014) Personal Data: Emergence of a New Assets Class

Your IDENTITY is at the root of your relationship with any service providing company, including the telecom companies. Honestly sir, the proper structure of the global network that emanates out of US agencies, laboratories, universities, offices, homes and increasingly pockets, is one based on un...

Updated: 2020-01-04 17 minute read

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Bitcoin
California
Credentials Community Group
DIACC
Danube Tech
FIDO
IBM
IDCommons
IndieAuth
Jolocom
Microsoft
NSTIC
Namecoin
OAuth
PCTF
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
Swisscom
Trust Framework
W3C
WebAuthN
Windhover Principles
XDI

History (2000-2009) Augmented Social Network - Laws of Identity - User Centric

The first International Planetwork Conference - Global Ecology and Information Technology, San Francisco, May 2000. The community that developed around the Planetwork conferences, including Linktank, formed the social and intellectual foundation for what became known as Self Sovereign Identity.

Updated: 2020-01-04 18 minute read

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Augmented Social Network
Digital Bazaar
FIDO
History
IDCommons
IIW
Laws of Identity
Microsoft
Neustar
OASIS
OAuth
OpenID
Planetwork
Verisign
XDI
YADIS

Women in Identity - @WomeninID

Digital identity solutions built for everyone are built by everyone. Women in Identity inspires, elevates and supports a more diverse workforce in the digital identity industry.

Updated: 2019-07-15 6 minute read

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GDPR
WomeninID

Blockchain and Self Sovereign Identity

Traditional identity systems typically suffer from single points of failure, lack of interoperability, and privacy issues such as encouraging mass data collection and user tracking. Blockchain technology has the potential to support novel data ownership and governance models with built-in control...

Updated: 2023-06-09 6 minute read

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Authenteq
Civic
Datum
Identiverse
Microsoft
NIST
ProCivis

MyData

We are entrepreneurs, activists, academics, listed corporations, public agencies, and developers. For years, we’ve been using different words for what we do – MyData, Self Data, VRM (Vendor Relationship Management), Internet of Me, PIMS (Personal Information Management Services) etc, while sharin...

Updated: 2023-06-18 14 minute read

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AI
Avast
Cozy Cloud
DKMS
Data Governance
GDPR
JLinc
Meeco
MyData
MyDex
OAuth
Verifiable Credentials
eIDAS

uPort: Veramo and Serto

In your application, you must first configure your uPort object with an identifier and a private key (or signer function). There are several ways to instantiate a credentials object. The most common approach is to save a DID and private key on a server for your application and create a credential...

Updated: 2023-06-27 8 minute read

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Alastria
Cheqd
Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DIDComm
DIF
ENS
Ethereum
GDPR
GLEIF
LACChain
LibP2P
Metamask
Onfido
PWC
Serto
Sphereon
Spherity
Switzerland
Veramo
Web3
Zug
uPort
uPortlandia

Danube Tech

This is an open-source project offering software for identity and personal data services on the Internet. The core of this project is an XDI-based Personal Data Store - a semantic database for your personal data, which always remains under your control. Applications on top of this database includ...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

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Danube
DHS
DIF
ESSIFlab
IIW
RWoT
Sovrin Steward