Podcasts about evernym

Are Personal AI Agents the future of individual empowerment? How can the evolution of digital identity make them a reality?  Jamie Smith is the CEO and Founder of Customer Futures, a company focused on digital identity and customer-controlled personal data. He has been working at the forefront of digital transformation for nearly 15 years, helping deliver innovative solutions for some of the world's largest organizations.  Jamie has previously worked at Evernym, Ctrl-Shift, BT and Deloitte, before embarking on various recent projects, always in the same space. References: Customer Futures - Newsletter  Jamie Smith on LinkedIn Icebreaker: an open, decentralized professional networking platform Adrian Doerk: digital identity, digital wallets, and data protection (Masters of Privacy) Gam Dias: On privacy, agency, convenience, and freedom (Masters of Privacy) Turning the Web3 Tech Stack into the Post Web Stack (Jamie Burke, Outlier Ventures) Anthropic: introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you (Techcrunch) Top 3 Trends in Digital Identity: What's New in Standards, Privacy, & Institutional Adoption (Privado.id) Dazza Greenwood: When AI Agents Conduct Transactions Uniform Electronic Transactions Act

Are you curious about how Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) has evolved over the years and where it is headed? In this episode of The SSI Orbit Podcast, host Mathieu Glaude sits down with Vladimir Vujovic, Head of Digital Product Management at SICPA to discuss the journey and future of SSI and decentralized identity technologies. Vladimir, with his extensive background in product management and experience in the SSI space since 2017, offers valuable insights into the technological advancements, challenges, and opportunities in this domain. From the early days of Evernym to the current state of mainstream adoption, Vladimir sheds light on the progress made and the hurdles still to be overcome. How have new credential formats and protocols impacted the industry? What role do government initiatives and large-scale pilots play in the broader adoption of SSI? Vladimir addresses these questions and more, providing a comprehensive overview of the SSI landscape. Join us as we explore the nuances of product development in the SSI space. Vladimir highlights the technical focus of digital wallet products and the need for companies to move beyond generic solutions to create value-added services tailored to specific industries. Discover the importance of making bold choices and the potential for growth in this evolving market. Chapters 00:00 - How things have evolved since Evernym's early days in 20278:50 - Have we lost the vision of ‘Self-Sovereignty' with an overfocus on Government ID?20:30 - Complexity of exchange interactions in identity vs payments24:10 - Evolution in thinking around building SSI-enabled products31:00 - The complexities of issuing credentials vs verifying them39:10 - How far open source goes and impacts product design45:25 - Adoption curves, horizontal vs vertical product focus51:45 - Where the technical SSI space is at today

Drummond Reed has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Gen Digital, previous Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Office. He is co-author of the book, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications, 2021), and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. At the Trust over IP Foundation, Drummond is a member of the Steering Committee and co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group and the Concepts and Terminology Working Group. About Podcast Episode Read more about the episode by heading to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://northernblock.io/podcasts/trust-spanning-protocol-seven-key-pillars⁠⁠⁠⁠ The full list of topics discussed between Drummond and Mathieu in this podcast episode include: Internet's Broken State: Is the internet considered broken due to issues with security, privacy, authenticity, and confidentiality (SPAC)? How does this relate to the work in the digital trust space, especially with Trust over IP? Trust over IP's Role: How does the Trust over IP technology architecture address the internet's shortcomings? Is the SPAC acronym a good framework for understanding the Trust over IP's approach? Design Principles of Trust Finding Protocol: During the design phase of the trust spanning protocol, were there any trade-offs or concessions made, especially in terms of security, privacy, authenticity, or confidentiality? Pillar 1: Verifiable Identifiers: Explaining the importance of verifiable identifiers as the first key pillar in the design of the trust spanning protocol. Interoperability and Identifiers: Will endpoints need to support the same types of identifiers for interoperability? How does one endpoint evaluate another's capability to support a particular identifier? Pillar 2: End-to-End Authenticity & Confidentiality: How does the trust spanning protocol ensure both authenticity and confidentiality in communications? Pillar 3: Direct Connections: How does the trust spanning protocol handle direct connections between endpoints using different types of channels? Pillar 4: Routing via Intermediaries: How does the protocol handle routing through intermediaries to ensure privacy and security? What might a practical implementation of this look like in the future? Pillar 5: Relationship Context Channels: How does the trust spanning protocol handle changes in the context of interactions between endpoints? Pillar 6: Text and Binary Encoding: How does the trust spanning protocol standardize the way endpoints communicate using text and binary encoding? Pillar 7: Trust Task Protocol Framework: What is the trust task protocol framework, and how does it relate to specific protocols for different types of trust tasks? Conclusion and Future: What's next for the trust spanning protocol? Are there any regulatory movements, like the Digital Markets Act, that might influence its development and adoption? Where to find Drummond? LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/drummondreed/ X/Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/drummondreed Follow Mathieu Glaude X/Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://northernblock.io/

Let's talk about digital identity with Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services at Gen and Andy Tobin, Commercial Director, Europe at Gen. In this series opener of Season 5, Drummond Reed and Andy Tobin join Oscar to explore vLEIs and Self Sovereign Identity (SSI). They explore what LEIs and vLEIs are, how SSI principles are used within vLEIs, the benefits of vLEIs, which sectors and industries will benefit the most, and some use cases of where the vLEI has been leveraged. [Transcript below] “If LEIs were digitised in a way that could be instantly verifiable, it could transform company onboarding.” Drummond has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Gen, previous Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Officer. He is co-author of the book, ‘Self-Sovereign Identity' (Manning Publications, 2021) and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. At the Trust Over IP Foundation, Drummond is a member of the Steering Committee and co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group and the Concepts and Terminology Working Group. At the Sovrin Foundation, he served as co-chair of the Sovrin Governance Framework Working Group for five years. From 2005-2015 he was co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee, a semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Drummond also served as Executive Director for two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange, and as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons. In 2002 he received the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was cited as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor. Connect with Drummond on LinkedIn. Andy Tobin leads European and eIDAS strategy for Gen's Digital Trust Services business. He is one of the pioneers of self-sovereign identity and helped to establish Evernym as the world leader in this field. He is a well-known public speaker and writer on the topic of digital identity and has delivered some of the largest SSI projects to date. His career has spanned the three rapidly converging sectors of identity, mobile and payments. He has written code to control cash machines, built the world's first mCommerce server, run a £1.2bn mobile messaging network and been CTO for Europe's first fully mobile bank. He is a passionate technology strategist who believes that the identity ecosystem and the personal information economy is poised for massive change, enabled by the capabilities being built right now by Avast. Connect with Andy on LinkedIn. We'll be continuing this conversation on Twitter using #LTADI – join us @ubisecure! Go to @Ubisecure on YouTube to watch the video transcript for episode 96. Podcast transcript Oscar Santolalla: Welcome back to Season 5 of the Let's Talk about Digital Identity podcast. In this series opener I am joined by Drummond Reed and Andy Tobin, from Gen Digital, joining us to delve into vLEIs and Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI). Stay tuned to find out more. Let's Talk About Digital Identity, the podcast connecting identity and business. I am your host, Oscar Santolalla.  Oscar: Today, we are very happy to have two expert guests, Drummond and Andy. And today, we are going to discuss vLEIs and what is the connection with self-sovereign identity. First of all, we have Drummond Reed. He is Director of Trust Services at Gen, previously Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was the Chief Trust Officer. He is co-author of the book Self-Sovereign Identity, published by Manning Publication in 2021. And he's co-editor of the W3C Decentralised Identifiers, DID 1.0 Specification. At the Trust Over IP Foundation, Drummond is a member of the steering committee and co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group and the Concepts and Terminology Working Gro...

Today's guest is Timothy Ruff, General Partner at Digital Trust Ventures. Timothy is an early pioneer of self-sovereign identity as a co-founder of Evernym, a co-creator of Sovrin, and an advisor to several IDtech startups. Timothy has countless battle scars from being on the ground floor of so much innovation in the decentralized identity space.In this episode, we discuss the difference between a use case and a business case and how to bridge the gap. We also talk about the humility required to change your mind about your idea when you're wrong. And one of the most pivotal things Timothy has changed his mind about in recent years is that blockchain isn't needed for SSI. We close by talking about where Timothy thinks the most ripe path to verifiable credential adoption lies in the near term.Multiple resources for SSI entrepreneurs are recommended within the episode and are listed below:The Cold Start Problem - Andrew Chen (Book)Running Lean by Ash Maurya - (Book)Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet - (Book)Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian - (Book)To reach out to Timothy, email him at timothy@digitaltrust.vcReach out to Riley (@rileyphughes) and Trinsic (@trinsic_id) on Twitter. We'd love to hear from you.

Drummond Reed has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Office. He is co-author of the book, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications, 2021), and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. At the Trust over IP Foundation, Drummond is a member of the Steering Committee and co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group and the Concepts and Terminology Working Group. At the Sovrin Foundation, he served as co-chair of the Sovrin Governance Framework Working Group for five years. About Podcast Episode Read more about the episode by heading to https://northernblock.io/one-trust-spanning-protocol-and-many-trust-tasks-drummond-reed. Some of the key topics covered during this episode with Drummond are: Does the new ToIP Technology Architecture Specification address the questions posed by Kim Cameron in his 2005 whitepaper? If we agree that one identity system cannot rule them all, how then can an identity metasystem solve interoperability across identities, identity systems and contexts? (hint: a trust spanning protocol!) What are the leading contenders for becoming the trust spanning protocol? What are some examples of trust tasks, other than credential exchange, that are possible to unlock? How does a trust spanning protocol x trust tasks lead to advancements in how we manage our relationships, and help us move away from phone numbers and emails as our most valuable identifiers? Where can governments participate within the hourglass model framework to accelerate digital trust on the open internet? Where to find Drummond? LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drummondreed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/drummondreed Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/ Website: https://northernblock.io/

Drummond Reed has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Office. He is co-author of the book, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications, 2021), and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. At the Trust over IP Foundation, Drummond is a member of the Steering Committee and co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group and the Concepts and Terminology Working Group. At the Sovrin Foundation, he served as co-chair of the Sovrin Governance Framework Working Group for five years. About Podcast Episode Digital Trust Infrastructure is quickly becoming essential from an economic, political and security standpoint. Much of the infrastructure today is controlled and owned by device OS providers such as Apple and Google. It's important that digital trust infrastructure providers can compete with the device OS providers. To produce a level playing field, we must have open standards and open access to the infrastructure. This applies to both to Governments and Private Sector digital trust providers. Some of the key topics covered during this episode with Drummond are: Wallets vs Agents – their differences, their relationship and how agents will use more and more contextual intelligence to help you make decisions according to your preferences. Can non-OS digital trust infrastructure providers compete with the device OS providers? (e.g., Apple owns the OS for mobile/desktops/tablets/smart watches) Comparing DIDComm to NFC – if NFC really facilitates security and trust for close distance, do the combinations of digital wallets, digital agents and protocols (like DIDComm) do the same for trust at distance? Trust Spanning Protocol – establishing authentic connections where both parties can authenticate each other (using the same hourglass model as TCP/IP). What are the architectural requirements for this protocol? And how can various protocols (e.g., DIDComm, KERI) converge into a trust spanning protocol? What does DIDComm do better/different than other data exchange protocols? (such as OAuth2 and OpenID Connect) Can the Trust over IP stack be used outside of Identity use cases? (e.g., payments, data sharing, social media) Comparing SSI to Email – similarities in protocol design, asynchronous or synchronous UX, simplicity and generality Where to find Drummond? LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drummondreed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/drummondreed Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/ Website: https://northernblock.io/

Drummond Reed shares with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps why Avast acquired Evernym on FLOSS Weekly. Avast is known for antivirus products, but has now taken a look at online identity security. Reed explains. For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/673 Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Drummond Reed You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/

Drummond Reed shares with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps why Avast acquired Evernym on FLOSS Weekly. Avast is known for antivirus products, but has now taken a look at online identity security. Reed explains. For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/673 Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Drummond Reed You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/

Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services with Avast, leads Doc Searls and Simon Phipps through deep dives into SSI, blockchain, KERI (which avoids blockchains), protocols, standards and much more. The biggest frontier for trust is digital identity, specifically of the self-sovereign kind. Great discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Drummond Reed Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: NewRelic.com/FLOSS

Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services with Avast, leads Doc Searls and Simon Phipps through deep dives into SSI, blockchain, KERI (which avoids blockchains), protocols, standards and much more. The biggest frontier for trust is digital identity, specifically of the self-sovereign kind. Great discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Drummond Reed Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: NewRelic.com/FLOSS

Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services with Avast, leads Doc Searls and Simon Phipps through deep dives into SSI, blockchain, KERI (which avoids blockchains), protocols, standards and much more. The biggest frontier for trust is digital identity, specifically of the self-sovereign kind. Great discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Drummond Reed Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: NewRelic.com/FLOSS

Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services with Avast, leads Doc Searls and Simon Phipps through deep dives into SSI, blockchain, KERI (which avoids blockchains), protocols, standards and much more. The biggest frontier for trust is digital identity, specifically of the self-sovereign kind. Great discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Drummond Reed Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: NewRelic.com/FLOSS

Punit is joined by James Monaghan for a conversation about how an individual can protect their privacy and identity. He talks about how trust based identity validation mechanisms can be developed to provide individuals with opportunities to choose and authenticate themselves. James has spent his career so far building startups that use technology to improve how people interact with businesses and with each other. This has taken him on a journey which began in the early days of mobile messaging, through account security for the world's largest online brands, and currently the exciting realm of digital identity. Today James serves as the Vice President of Product Management at Evernym, a company pioneering the movement towards “self-sovereign” or decentralised identity. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering, a Certified Information Privacy Technologist qualification, and a penchant for long distance running. This is an extract from the full episode of The FIT4PRIVACY Podcast. If you like this, you would enjoy the full episode. If this is your first time, the FIT4PRIVACY Podcast is a privacy podcast for those who care about privacy. In this podcast, you listen to and learn from industry influencers who share their ideas. The episodes are released as audio every Wednesday and video every Thursday. If you subscribe to our podcast, you will be notified about the new episodes. And, if you have not done it, write a review and share this with someone who will benefit from this. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fit4privacy/message

Se abre la vacunación para niños desde 5 años. El proyecto Bookfeeding difunde la cultura en África. Avast compra Evernym. Sube el salario medio. El horóscopo en checo.

Se abre la vacunación para niños desde 5 años. El proyecto Bookfeeding difunde la cultura en África. Avast compra Evernym. Sube el salario medio. El horóscopo en checo.

In this episode of the FIT4PRIVACY Podcast, Punit is joined by James Monaghan for an open and candid conversation about how we should protect our identity and privacy. He talks about creating different standards for identity and letting people choose which one they like to be identified with. He believes such an approach will create more trust. KEY CONVERSATION POINTS What is GDPR in one word? Privacy Protection In A Digital World Identity Management Approaches The Moved To Next Level Establishing Trust By Organization ABOUT THE GUEST James has spent his career so far building startups that use technology to improve how people interact with businesses and with each other. This has taken him on a journey which began in the early days of mobile messaging, through account security for the world's largest online brands, and currently the exciting realm of digital identity. Today James serves as the Vice President of Product Management at Evernym, a company pioneering the movement towards “self-sovereign” or decentralised identity. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering, a Certified Information Privacy Technologist qualification, and a penchant for long distance running. Links that might be useful and relevant for your audience based on our conversation: Trust over IP Foundation: https://trustoverip.org Decentralised ID Foundation: https://identity.foundation W3C Specifications: DIDs: https://w3c.github.io/did-core/ Verifiable Credentials: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ IATA Travel Pass: https://www.iata.org/en/programs/passenger/travel-pass/ Senior technology executive with experience in business development, partnerships, product management and software development. Veteran of several high-growth startups, and a torch-carrier for the power of mission-driven organizations. Building the future of decentralized identity and trusted interactions at Evernym. ABOUT THE HOST Punit Bhatia works with business and privacy leaders to create an organizational culture with high privacy awareness and compliance as a business priority. Punit is the author of various privacy books including “Be Ready for GDPR”. Punit has been a speaker at over 30 global events. Punit is the creator and host of the FIT4PRIVACY Podcast. RESOURCES Websites: www.fit4privacy.com, www.punitbhatia.com CONNECT Instagram https://www.instagram.com/punit.world/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PunitBhatiaSpeaker/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/punitbhatia/ Podcast http://hyperurl.co/fit4privacy YouTube http://youtube.com/fit4privacy Email hello@fit4privacy.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fit4privacy/message

Overview : Agents Hyperledger Indy - Kyle Den Hartog, Evernym Part 1 & 2

Building Secure Protocols Using Ursa - Mike Lodder, Sovrin Foundation & Brent Zundel, Evernym

Understanding the Hyperledger Indy Distributed Ledger - Alexander Shcherbakov Evernym

In this episode, we talk about the future of credential management – Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) also known as decentralised identity. SSI is an efficient, secure and privacy enhancing solution for identity verification. It puts individuals at the centre of the verification process and is the future of identity management. Our special guest, James Monaghan, talks about how Evernym provides solutions in the area of SSI for businesses today. We talk about what SSI means, how it works, the benefits for individuals and businesses and importantly, examples of how it is being used to great effect today. For any businesses interested in learning more about how they could benefit from building an SSI or decentralised identity solution, please contact James directly. As we enter what is arguably, the start of our journey into a new era of digital innovation with huge benefits to individuals and businesses, we are excited to follow developments around the growth of Self Soverign Identity. GDPR Now! Is brought to you by Data Protection 4 Business & This Is DPO. www.dpo4business.co.uk www.thisisdpo.co.uk Guest James Monaghan Vice President of Product Management at Evernym. Contact James on: Email: james.monaghan@evernym.com Twitter: @james_monaghan https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmonaghan/ World Web Consortium (W3C) specifications for existing SSI solutions: - Decentralised Identifiers https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/ - Verifiable Credentials https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ - Simple explainer about how this all works https://www.evernym.com/blog/gentle-introduction-verifiable-credentials/ Relevant industry bodies include: - The Decentralised Identity Foundation https://identity.foundation/ - Trust over IP Foundation https://trustoverip.org/ - Good Health Pass Collaborative https://www.goodhealthpass.org/ Special Guest: James Monaghan.

The Breakdown is now housed at The Daily Barker.THIS IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER!Kentucky bills that give governors extreme powers AN ACT relating to emergencies and declaring an emergency. 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucy FEMA can tell him to take property?  To seize your stuff?We also take a look at New York's BillsGov. DeWine has his own plans https://twitter.com/govmikedewine/status/1349734895346585600?s=21 That won't happen!  That is the voice I constantly hear from people.  Let's not talk about how the United States putting Japanese citizens in internment camps. Germany to Put COVID Rulebreakers in 'Detention Camp' Oh, but that's when we were in war Look at the language the political class and the mainstream media is using. Violent rioters Insurrectionists Domestic terrorists They are at war with us.Martial Law is coming.  Travel restrictions, food lines, and full on Surveillance Society.Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce join effort to develop COVID-19 vaccination digital passportAmerican rolls out Daon health passport, digital ID from Evernym and IATA chosen by major airlinesBiden to deploy FEMA, National Guard as part of national vaccination planWhat's going on in DC?Get more info and updates by going to The Daily Barker.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaron-barker0/message

We speak with Jonathan Rayback, Evernym’s VP of Engineering, about how he evolved his leadership to make working from home sustainable, and the challenges he encountered along the way. Evernym's website Jonathan's LinkedIn profile

Evernym & verifiable credentials. Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but, now in the digital age, we have companies holding the credentials, like Facebook & Google. Richard Esplin, an open-source advocate, talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about the importance of taking control of your identity. Richard Esplin works for Evernym, which is the world's leading platform for verifiable credentials. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Richard Esplin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit securityscorecard.com/twit

Evernym & verifiable credentials. Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but, now in the digital age, we have companies holding the credentials, like Facebook & Google. Richard Esplin, an open-source advocate, talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about the importance of taking control of your identity. Richard Esplin works for Evernym, which is the world's leading platform for verifiable credentials. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Richard Esplin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit securityscorecard.com/twit

Evernym & verifiable credentials. Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but, now in the digital age, we have companies holding the credentials, like Facebook & Google. Richard Esplin, an open-source advocate, talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about the importance of taking control of your identity. Richard Esplin works for Evernym, which is the world's leading platform for verifiable credentials. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Richard Esplin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit securityscorecard.com/twit

Evernym & verifiable credentials. Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but, now in the digital age, we have companies holding the credentials, like Facebook & Google. Richard Esplin, an open-source advocate, talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about the importance of taking control of your identity. Richard Esplin works for Evernym, which is the world's leading platform for verifiable credentials. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Richard Esplin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit securityscorecard.com/twit

Evernym & verifiable credentials. Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but, now in the digital age, we have companies holding the credentials, like Facebook & Google. Richard Esplin, an open-source advocate, talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about the importance of taking control of your identity. Richard Esplin works for Evernym, which is the world's leading platform for verifiable credentials. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Richard Esplin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit securityscorecard.com/twit

Evernym & verifiable credentials. Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but, now in the digital age, we have companies holding the credentials, like Facebook & Google. Richard Esplin, an open-source advocate, talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about the importance of taking control of your identity. Richard Esplin works for Evernym, which is the world's leading platform for verifiable credentials. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Richard Esplin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit securityscorecard.com/twit

Evernym & verifiable credentials. Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but, now in the digital age, we have companies holding the credentials, like Facebook & Google. Richard Esplin, an open-source advocate, talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about the importance of taking control of your identity. Richard Esplin works for Evernym, which is the world's leading platform for verifiable credentials. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Richard Esplin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit securityscorecard.com/twit

Evernym & verifiable credentials. Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but, now in the digital age, we have companies holding the credentials, like Facebook & Google. Richard Esplin, an open-source advocate, talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about the importance of taking control of your identity. Richard Esplin works for Evernym, which is the world's leading platform for verifiable credentials. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Richard Esplin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit securityscorecard.com/twit

In real life we identify ourselves with a passport, driver's license, or other government ID - and we use the same ID in multiple places. But digital identity isn't so easy, and doing digital credentials badly can leave users and systems vulnerable. Drummond Reed is our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast. He is the Chief Trust Officer at Evernym - a company at the forefront of a rapidly growing movement to decentralize digital identity. Their approach is called Self Sovereign Identity or SSI, and it makes the process of proving your identity in a digital space much more straightforward. You'll Hear About: Self Sovereign Identity or SSI, and how a Digital Wallet and Digital Agent will streamline the process of sharing the necessary credentials within the digital realm. The role biometrics play as one piece of the “chain of trust” of authentication. How SSI differentiates itself from federated identity when it comes to privacy and security. The possibility to store not only your credentials in your digital wallet but also micro-credentials. The growth and adoption of verifiable credentials and SSI. The different roles of Evernym and Sovrin Foundation. Who is Drummond Reed? Drummond has spent over two decades working on Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust frameworks. He joined Evernym as Chief Trust Officer after Evernym's acquisition of Respect Network, where he was CEO, co-founder, and co-author of the Respect Trust Framework. Drummond has served as co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee since 2004, the new semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Prior to starting Respect Network, Drummond was Executive Director of two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange, the international not-for-profit clearinghouse for Internet trust frameworks. He has also served as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons.

Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, presents an overview of SSI and the importance of governance frameworks in SSI implementations.

We're honoured to have Tim Bouma from Treasury Board Secretariat, and Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, giving a presentation at our first virtual #SSIToronto webinar.

This is the Clip 3 of #SSIToronto's first virtual meetup video series. Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, is introducing the first SSI use case.

This is the Clip 4 of #SSIToronto's first virtual meetup video series. Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, is introducing the second SSI use case.

This is the Clip 5 of #SSIToronto's first virtual meetup video series. Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, is introducing the third SSI use case.

This is the Clip 6 of #SSIToronto's first virtual meetup video series. Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, is introducing the fourth SSI use case.

This is the Clip 7 of #SSIToronto's first virtual meetup video series. Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, is introducing the fifth SSI use case.

Trying to prove who we are online, or even trying to prove that we are human, can be a laborious task. Every day we give our information and credentials to a large number of people, organizations, and businesses, often using various forms of ID. However, we could soon be living in a world where all of this information and these processes can be streamlined using modern technology. To discuss how our digital identity could soon become safer and simplified, we spoke with Jamie Smith, Strategic Engagement Director at Evernym, a company that is developing trusted peer-to-peer interactions on a global scale. In this episode, we discuss how Evernym works, what kind of scenarios we can use it in, and how far could this identity go. You will also learn how will this impacts individual privacy, how it can help prevent identity theft, and how this information would help if we were to face another COVID-19 style outbreak.

Andrew Tobin, EMEA managing director at Evernym, which aims to solve the digital identity crisis, talks to The Banker's Joy Macknight about the balance between citizen privacy and mitigating the spread of Covid-19, how blockchain could help to solve this conundrum and the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode Steve explores what's broken with the Internet today, self-sovereign identity and how distributed governance will work in the future. Also in this episode, Drummond Reed demystifies verifiable credentials, zero knowledge proofs, the implications for Trust over IP and talks about how we can scale not only the technical aspects of SSI, but the business models and alliances that will be needed for SSI to achieve major milestones and critical success. Visit www.nonconformistinnovation.com to get a full text transcript of this episode and a discount code for Drummond's book.

Say goodbye to the era of siloed digital identities where we 'rent' identities from websites and apps that we use. Jamie Smith of Evernym shares how it is onboarding universities and students into the open source future of decentralized digital identities. Evernym envisions a world where consumers are in complete control of their digital identity, where privacy is a basic human right, and where consumers and organizations can foster a new relationship rooted in trust. Evernym uses Sovrin, the world’s only global public utility for trusted, self-sovereign identity. Like the Internet, it is not owned by anyone: everyone can use it and anyone can improve it.

Simon Taylor is back this week to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain, Bitcoin and Crypto including: Block.one agrees to pay $24M penalty for unregistered EOS ICO (01:32) Swiss Stock Exchange SIX lines up buyers for its Initial Digital Offering (12:05) Fidelity Digital Assets to Provide Custody for Bitcoin Derivatives Yield Fund (20:53) SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says digital assets could one day be ‘the money of the internet’ (27:16) Barclays, Overstock lead $8m funding for identity startup Evernym (32:10) LedgerX cries foul; CFTC says there’s no favoritism (35:52) The Tweet of the Week comes from @davidmarcus about well... libra! Why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! (37:44) We also bring you an amazing interview with Matthew Pollard, Founder and CFO at Archax! (41:33) Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS. If you enjoyed the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe and leave a review! Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show at: www.twitter.com/bchaininsider Special Guest: Richard Cohen.

Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news Bitcoin is down 5% at $7,990 XRP is down 3% at 24 cents and Ethereum is down 2% at $165 Top gainers in the last 24 hours: Eidoo up 37% Dentacoin up 15% The CEO of KIK, Ted Livingston is vowing to fight the SEC over the KIN crypto until "We don’t have a dollar left.” The Unilever digital ad buying blockchain pilot program with IBM has produced positive results. Binance is launching a staking platform. Binance aided the UK police in their investigation of a 51 million pound fraud. Medici Ventures has invested 2 million dollars into the blockchain based identity firm Evernym.

Welcome to the first episode of IBM Blockchain Pulse with your host (and blockchain evangelist), Matt Hooper!   Blockchain is one of the pioneering innovations of our time — it may be the pioneering innovation of our time and too few people know about it. If you are one of those people — that’s okay! This podcast will be centralized around illustrating practical blockchain use cases guided by leaders across multiple industries. From financial services to trade, to tracing the safety of your next meal, to purchasing a ticket to your next concert — blockchain is transforming lives — and not soon. Now.   In this episode, host and blockchain evangelist Matthew Hooper is bringing you a use case near and dear to his heart: identity. How many times have credit cards been hacked where they need to be canceled immediately? How many times have emails and social media accounts been tampered with? As more and more people put their personal information online, it’s come to be expected that more and more bad actors are getting ahold of others’ online identities.   Matt’s first guest, Adam Gunther, joins him to explore this topic. Adam is the Executive Director of Blockchain Trusted Identity and Network Services at IBM. He sees this “new normal” of fragile online identities as an avoidable problem. Together, they discuss fraud prevention; verifiable forms of ID; and the next, most practical, use cases for blockchain this year. Matt’s second guest, Drummond Reed, is the Chief Trust Officer at Evernym and a champion of self-sovereign identity. They discuss digital identity, digital credentials (and how they differ from their physical counterpart), and the future of protecting your wallet and identity.   Key Takeaways: [2:30] About IBM Blockchain Pulse! [3:13] About today’s episode and featured guest. [4:15] Adam unpacks the phrase “blockchain identity.” [8:56] The most powerful wardens of identity as Adam sees them right now. [12:35] Adam defines a permissioned blockchain. [13:11] The beauty in self-sovereign identity. [16:35] The Cambridge Analytic scandal: a real-world example of identity theft. Adam’s thoughts on where we are two years later, online identity protection in general, what he’s currently doing to help, and how we can all — as blockchain enthusiasts — reshape the identity conversation. [24:16] Matt thanks Adam for joining him this episode! [25:30] Matt introduces today’s second guest: Drummond Reed. [25:49] Drummond explains what a trust framework is. [28:16] Drummond speaks about his introduction to digital identity. [29:22] Drummond speaks about the shift from web 2.0 identities to more web 3.0/self-sovereign identities. [31:57] The problem that blockchain solved for the identity space. [34:40] Drummond’s example of governance frameworks. [37:30] What does it mean to be Chief Trust Officer at Evernym? [38:53] How does an agent protect your wallet and identity? How will you use it practically? [41:17] The difference between digital credentials and physical credentials. [43:38] What is the IBM Blockchain relationship with Evernym right now? [46:57] Drummond’s predictions on what online identity will look like in 10 years. [49:57] Drummond describes the most exciting performance at any technology conference he’s ever seen and its relevancy to digital credentials and self-sovereign identities. [53:23] What Drummond recommends listeners follow up on! [55:22] Matt wraps up this week’s episodes, summarizing key points and giving a small preview of what’s to come in future episodes.   Sources Mentioned: Public vs. Permissioned Blockchains IBM Blockchain Trusted Identity Sovrin Foundation The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Blockchain Garage Evernym Imogen Heap Open Identity Exchange Internet Identity Workshop Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) IBM Think Conference CU Ledger Hyperledger Indy   Follow-up with Our Guests: Adam Gunther’s LinkedIn Drummond Reed’s Bio on Evernym   Looking for More Episodes? Visit IBM Blockchain — and for news and updates, follow @IBMBlockchain on Twitter!

Our hosts Simon and Leda are joined by two great guests, Livia Benisty, Head of Financial Crime at ComplyAdvantage and Ryan Edwards-Pritchard, MD at Funding Options. First up, Revolut’s brand new banking licence. British fintech unicorn Revolut wins banking licence. Revolut has secured a European banking licence from authorities in Lithuania, allowing them to start offering current accounts and loans across the EU from early next year. Initial focus on Lithuania, where it has about 150,000 customers, before expanding into larger markets including the UK, France and Poland later next year. However, its plans to offer full banking services in its home market could be delayed in the event of a disorderly Brexit if financial firms lose the right to serve retail customers on licences granted in the rest of the EU. Barclays customers to switch off their spending. Barclays has become the first High Street bank to allow its customers to "switch off" certain types of spending on their debit cards. The idea is to help vulnerable customers, particularly problem gamblers, or those in serious debt. They can’t block specific retailers but all account holders can now block their own spending in a number of categories. Fintech is changing how millennials manage debt. Fintech is moving millennials from credit cards to personal loans in the US. Compared to the previous generations, millennials are more likely to take out a personal loan to cover everyday costs, relying less heavily on credit cards as their predecessors. Fintech firms originated 36% of all personal loans last year, compared to less than 1 percent in 2010. Metro payments go international. Metro Bank is adding international payments through personal and business accounts via its mobile app. The new service enables customers to make same day Swift and next day SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) payments in Euros, US dollars and Sterling. International payments are integrated alongside the app’s domestic payments functionality, and allows customers to choose whether they or the payee cover the charges. We spoke to Alex Park, Metro Bank’s Director of Digital to tell us more about this, how it was a customer-led initiative, and what’s coming next. HSBC Launches robo advisors. My Investment, an online platform designed to make wealth advice accessible to investors, will be available from as little as £1,000 to invest at an initial charge of 0.5% followed by fees of up to 0.46%. HSBC estimates My Investment could be used by 2.87 million of its existing retail customers, including many who may not have considered wealth management an option in the past. Advice will be given based on investor's answers to questions about their finances, investment experience and appetite to risk. Funding Options bags CMA prize. Business finance marketplace, Funding Options, has been announced as one of the winners of the second phase of Nesta’s ‘Open Up Challenge’ - one of only three companies to have won both stages of this challenge. The Open Up Challenge prize is part of a package of reforms from the Competition and Markets Authority designed to shake up retail banking. Plaid to hit $2.65B valuation. $250M series C fundraising round led by Mary Meeker who will join the board. Other investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, Spark Capital and others. The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts. Plaid builds infrastructure that allows a consumer to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub. SoftBank’s record breaking IPO. SoftBank Group Corp is set to raise 2.65 TRILLION yen ($23.5 billion) in Japan’s biggest-ever IPO. The share sale widely regarded as finalizing the group’s transition from domestic telco to a monolithic global tech investor. It also said it will sell all extra shares set aside for excess demand, taking the total just shy of the record $25 billion raised in 2014 by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group - of which it also owns a 30% share. SoftBank offered nearly 2 billion shares for sale and allocated over 80% of the sale for domestic retail investors. Barclaycard joins up with Evernym. Barclaycard wants to make passwords a thing of the past and as such they have joined an accelerator programme run by self-sovereign identity (SSI) specialist Evernym. SSI is the concept of enabling people to securely store information about their digital identity, totally under their control, so that they can share verifiable proof of who they are, for life. We spoke to Evernym MD Andy Tobin to find our more about this partnership and the Evernym accelerator. And Finally... Finger payments to go campus-wide at Copenhagen Business School. Finger vein payments technology is to be introduced campus-wide at Copenhagen Business School. The technology, named FingoPay, works via an electronic reader which builds a 3D map of the customer’s finger veins, generating a 'natural personal key' - thus removing the need for the individual to enter any personal details upon registration to make a payment. FingoPay successfully processed more than 12,000 transactions in the restaurant and coffee shop of the business school. All this and so much more on today's episode of Fintech Insider! ​ Subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and every other podcast app. Spread the fintech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. ​ Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.com ​ This week's episode was produced and written by Laura Watkins, and edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Leda Glyptis, Livia Benisty, and Ryan Edwards-Pritchard.

Elizabeth is an entrepreneurial attorney, thought-leader and strategic consultant who is passionate about emerging technologies and their impact on privacy, identity, society, and collective consciousness. She is particularly interested in blockchain, distributed ledger technologies (DLT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, and frequently advises clients on these subjects. Elizabeth is a principal at Ouroboros, LLP, a boutique blockchain law and consulting firm based in Washington, DC and acts as Global Policy Counsel to Evernym, Inc., a Utah-based corporation focused on building technology that enables self-sovereign identity. During her career, Elizabeth has counseled global technology companies and startups alike on all aspects of data protection and privacy laws, technology transactions, and global regulatory compliance strategies as an attorney with major multinational law firms such as Perkins Coie and White & Case, as well as in various in-house and public-sector roles. In addition to her legal and consulting work, Elizabeth is actively involved in a number of blockchain-related academic initiatives, including through projects with the MIT Media Lab, the Stanford CodeX Project, and various Legal Hackers chapters. As a polyglot who has lived and worked in five countries on three continents, Elizabeth has a global perspective on law and policy.

Minter Dialogue Episode #283 James Monaghan, whom I met as a fellow speaker at CogX 2018, is VP Product Management at Evernym, a startup based out of Utah, building the next generation of identity infrastructure for the world. It's a fascinating project, tackling a big challenge that is designed to enable trusted peer interactions between individuals, organizations, and objects and to give the individual true control and ownership of his/her personal data. It's a cutting edge technology. Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Andreas Proksch, Marit Hansen, Andrew Tobin, Franz von Weizsäcker Whether you open a bank account, obtain health services, register your car, file a complaint, apply for a job or travel for holidays -- in the rich world, identification credentials are part of our daily lives enabling us to be an active member of society and the economy.  In developing and emerging economies, or for refugees, identification credentials often play a vital role for social and economic empowerment on one side, but at the same time they can expose individuals to risks for their safety and security, be it identifying them as war deserters, or as members of a minority, or being excluded for their sexual orientation or medical background.  Andreas Proksch, Director-General of GIZ's new Sector and Global Programmes Department, will open the session by outlining the importance of identity management in the context of international development cooperation. The potentials for informational self-determination and potential pitfalls will be discussed by Marit Hansen, the Head of the Independent Centre for Data Protection (ULD) and the Data Protection Commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein. Andrew Tobin, founder of Evernym, will finally talk about the potential of self-sovereign identities, privacy enhancing technologies as well as the non-profit open source platform sovrin.org. While this session provides an entry point to the discussion, we invite participants to join a workshop to develop ideas around applications of self-sovereign identity in development cooperation with GIZ and other experts. supported by BMZ

Andreas Proksch, Marit Hansen, Andrew Tobin, Franz von Weizsäcker Whether you open a bank account, obtain health services, register your car, file a complaint, apply for a job or travel for holidays -- in the rich world, identification credentials are part of our daily lives enabling us to be an active member of society and the economy.  In developing and emerging economies, or for refugees, identification credentials often play a vital role for social and economic empowerment on one side, but at the same time they can expose individuals to risks for their safety and security, be it identifying them as war deserters, or as members of a minority, or being excluded for their sexual orientation or medical background.  Andreas Proksch, Director-General of GIZ's new Sector and Global Programmes Department, will open the session by outlining the importance of identity management in the context of international development cooperation. The potentials for informational self-determination and potential pitfalls will be discussed by Marit Hansen, the Head of the Independent Centre for Data Protection (ULD) and the Data Protection Commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein. Andrew Tobin, founder of Evernym, will finally talk about the potential of self-sovereign identities, privacy enhancing technologies as well as the non-profit open source platform sovrin.org. While this session provides an entry point to the discussion, we invite participants to join a workshop to develop ideas around applications of self-sovereign identity in development cooperation with GIZ and other experts. supported by BMZ