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Governments and Decentralized Identity

Modern identity and access management (IAM) came into focus during the late 1930s, when a group of European countries began issuing national ID cards. During this time, creating a more systematic approach for establishing and authenticating the official use of trusted identities emerged.

Updated: 2023-07-02 13 minute read

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Africa
China
Global
Government
Japan
Korea
Latin America
Policy
Tokyo

Microledgers and Edge-Chains - A Primer

Evernym’s Chief Architect Daniel Hardman takes the Hyperledger community through Evernym’s work on Microledgers and Edge-Chains Architecture. Attendees will gain insight into the theory, applications and evolution in Hyperledger Indy along with a practical discussion of their potential.

Updated: 2019-12-11 37 minute read

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DID:PEER
Evernym
GDPR
HGF 2018
Hyperledger Forum
Indy
Literature
Transcript

The First Production Government Deployment of Hyperledger Indy - Verifiable Organizations Network

VON’s founding members are governments who are, by law, trusted issuers of data about organizations. The Province of British Columbia, Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada have come together to create the initial services needed to establish VON. VON’s founders have delivered new Indy...

Updated: 2019-07-11 31 minute read

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BCGov
Canada
HGF 2018
Hyperledger Forum
Indy
Real World
Transcript
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C

Principles and Characteristics of Self Sovereign Identity

There are a few different ways to approach and describe SSI. What I aim to do is come up with a list of different “SSI Cases” to modularize the treatment of the subject. This will allow each to contribute in the way that makes most sense for themselves, rather than trying to discuss SSI as a whol...

Updated: 2023-06-24 11 minute read

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History
Laws of Identity
Literature
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
UNSDGs
Windhover Principles
lifeID
notes

Self Sovereign Identity (SSI)

In a nutshell, Self-Sovereign Identity allows individuals to manage their own identities by moving physical credentials to digital devices. An individual will receive a credential from an issuer which will be stored in their digital wallet.

Updated: 2023-06-22 14 minute read

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Evernym
IIW
Laws of Identity
Learning Machine
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Sovrin Foundation

Hyperledger Indy

Hyperledger Indy provides tools, libraries, and reusable components for providing digital identities rooted on blockchains or other distributed ledgers so that they are interoperable across administrative domains, applications, and any other silo. Indy is interoperable with other blockchains or c...

Updated: 2023-06-12 8 minute read

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ATB
Accenture
Adoption
Anoncreds
Aries
Blockchain
CULedger
Cisco
Consensys
Ethereum Enterprise Alliance
Evernym
Hyperledger Foundation
IBM
IOT
IOTA
Indy
MyData
RDF
Sovrin Foundation
Truu
Tykn
UNSDGs
Ursa
Verifiable Organizations Network