The SSI Orbit Podcast – Self-Sovereign Identity, Decentralization and Digital Trust

This episode is an acronym special! NFTs, NFC and SSI! Great conversation with the Founder of Gimly Projects, Caspar Roelofs.About Episode We discuss Caspar’s PHD research background in biomedical science Using physical cards as a cryptographic store for private keys and verifiable credentials, and then transacting via NFC.  We discuss various use cases of verifiable credentials using NFC such as offline and connectionless use cases. We discuss NFTS, and if SSI can perhaps help increase the value of a community created NFT by ensuring the proof of ownership or creation at time of minting. We also briefly touch upon SSI use cases for decentralized finance, often referred to as DeFi, towards the end of the conversationGimly is hiring! See links below: https://www.gimly.io/hiring https://www.gimly.io/blogAbout GuestCaspar helps clients understand and leverage blockchain technology for their business needs. Combining my expertise in blockchain technology, and my experience in science, technology and innovation research, I bring value to clients in blockchain education, concept and technology development, and business development. Development of NFC and blockchain authentication solutions Decentralized identity and Self-sovereign identity (SSI) solutions. Supply Chain, IoT, and Blockchain solutions. Gimly Blockchain Projects and Partnerships*“When considering disruptive technologies – such as blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things (IoT) – I have learned to appreciate the importance of understanding the context of innovation. Understanding the drivers, interests, and values of stakeholders, and accounting for economic, social, and political realities are essential in creating solutions that matter.”Follow Caspar Roelofs Twitter: https://twitter.com/casparroelofs LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caspar-roelofs/Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/Read the full podcast transcription on the Northern Block blog here: https://northernblock.io/ssi-for-nfts/

The Trust over IP Foundation’s mission is to: “Define a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines cryptographic trust at the machine layer with human trust at the business, legal, and social layers.”About EpisodePart 1 - Introduction to the ToIP (starts at 01:50) Digital Trust Primer The History of Credentials: the Paper credential era, the Credential Trust triangle, the Governance Trust triangle The Internet Era and the Trust Gap New era of digital trust, back to the future with digital credentials The mission of the Trust over IP Foundation? What is the dual-stack architecture? Part 2 - Working Groups: Activities, Deliverables and Collaborations (starts at 32:20) Brief Introductions - why are you interested in the ToIP and what background/expertise do you bring to the foundation? Discussing the different types of Working Groups Collaborations within the ToIP Selling to C-Level executives Digital Trust Ecosystems How the ToIP has evolved in its first year? The disruption of moving away from APIs through agents and communication protocols ---About GuestsFollow John Jordan --> Twitter | LinkedInFollow Karl Kneis --> LinkedInFollow André Kudra --> Twitter | LinkedInFollow Scott Perry --> Twitter | LinkedInFollow Paul Knowles --> Twitter | LinkedInFollow Mathieu Glaude --> Twitter | LinkedInRead the full podcast transcription on the Northern Block blog here: https://northernblock.io/toip-101/

About EpisodeDuring this conversation, we discuss How Riley got into SSI through Sovrin and how he continued his journey by founding Trinsic The focus on making trust ecosystem development easy - A trust ecosystem needs three things to be successful: (1) interoperable technology, (2) trustworthy governance, and (3) tools for adoption. Trinsic Ecosystems is designed to provide these three components in a fully-integrated, programmatic platform, built specifically for providers. If ‘Self-Sovereign Identity’ has an identity problem How to sell the value of SSI to enterprises and ecosystem solution providers The two ways to overcome the chicken and egg problem that exists when starting a verifiable credential market, to achieve network of network effectsAbout GuestIn this episode of SSI Orbit, I sit down with Riley Hughes.Riley is a leader in the self-sovereign identity (SSI) community. As the second employee hired at the Sovrin Foundation, Riley established and contributed towards several teams, such as the Sovrin Governance Working Group and helped set up the Sovrin Steward Program. He started Trinsic to make implementing decentralized identity easy for developers and is now working with many organizations around the world to bring SSI-based solutions to market.Follow Riley Hughes Twitter: https://twitter.com/rileyphughes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rileyparkerhughes/Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/Read the full podcast transcription on the Northern Block blog here:https://northernblock.io/building-digital-trust-ecosystems/

During this conversation, we discuss The history and business models of each evolution of the internet to-date: Web 1.0 - Web 2.0 - Web 3.0; How web3 might require a regulatory protocol layer; The different ways for SSI to gain adoption: (1) through adoption by web 2.0 companies, and (2) by building new models from scratch to displace Web 2.0 companies; How economic inefficiencies can be used to create business use cases and propel the adoption of SSI as a better way of doing things; How we can use SSI to create completely new paradigms that are unimaginable today with the business models and social landscape we know; How Cryptoeconomics can be used to increase the value of Verifiable Credentials within a decentralized ecosystem; What are Pipe vs Platform business models and where does SSI fits in.--Stepan Gershuni is the Lead Product Manager at Affinidi, Founder of Credentia (SSI for education in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) and also as a hobby runs the Crypto-economics Research Group, a meetup for all things decentralized/web3.Follow Stepan Gershuni Twitter: https://twitter.com/sgershuni LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgershuni/Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/

** Listeners of the SSI Orbit Podcast can use this special discount code for 20% off their IIW32 ticket purchase: ‘SSIOrbit_XXXII_20’. Apply the code to your purchase here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-identity-workshop-iiwxxxii-32-2021a-tickets-131551119941?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch. **In today’ conversation, I welcome Kaliya Young, often referred to as Identity Woman, for a Sneak Peak on what to expect from IIW 32, the 32nd Internet Identity Workshop, which will be hosted virtually.For over 15 years, it has been the premier place to bring together the largest concentration of talent dedicated to designing and building identity systems that empower individuals.Kaliya is an internationally recognized expert in Self-Sovereign or Decentralized Digital Identity, and a Co-Founder and Co-Producer of this event with Doc Searls and Phil Windley. Since its inception she has been the main Designer and Facilitator of IIW. The semi-annual event has been key to fostering innovation, collaboration and adoption of user-centric identity technologies.During this conversation dedicated to the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) with Kaliya “IdentityWoman” Young, we discuss: What’s taking up most of Kaliya’s time nowadays between her role as the Ecosystem Director for the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative and leading the Interoperability Task Force of the Good Health Pass Initiative; How the Digital ID Space has innovated and evolved through IIW through the past 15 years; What to expect from this year’s first IIW; How Verifiable Credential Tech can end the way ID Proofing is done today and drastically improve authentication and security techniques such as 2FA and security tokens; How Health credentials have been approached from a governance and interoperability perspective; How BBS+ is exciting for real interoperability; The impact of culture on the adoption of Self-Sovereign Identity.Again, listeners of this podcast who haven’t registered yet for IIW, or maybe are on the fence about registering, can get a 20% discount by applying this discount code → ‘SSIOrbit_XXXII_20’ to your purchase here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-identity-workshop-iiwxxxii-32-2021a-tickets-131551119941?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch.I look forward to seeing you all there.---Here is her newsletter I recommend you subscribe to for detailed weekly updates on the decentralized identity community: https://newsletter.identosphere.net/.This is the paper Kaliya referenced early on in the conversation about interoperability: https://www.lfph.io/2021/02/11/cci-verifiable-credentials-flavors-and-interoperability-paper/.Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/next-internet-identity-workshop-iiw/

During this conversation about Patient-Centric Identity Management for Healthcare, we discuss: Jim’s vast experience and expertise in healthcare IT and today’s leading standards that healthcare operators must follow when dealing with patient health data; The patient era, the next evolution of healthcare, and how the work happening at the Lumedic Exchange is enabling this. The Lumedic Exchange is exciting as it’s an open ecosystem for collaboration around patient-centric health advancements and they’re working on developing trust frameworks for this decentralized model, and much more through various working groups they host; Lumedic Connect, the toolkits to enable these processes to use Verifiable Credentials;Link to the Patient Era illustration we refer to a couple times throughout the episode: https://www.lumedic.io/perspectives/introducing-the-patient-era--As the Chief Trust Officer for the Lumedic Exchange, the first internationally available patient-centric data exchange platform, Jim leads the development and harmonization of W3C verifiable credential data standards across healthcare and identity use cases.Additionally, as part of Tegria, a services and solutions company launched by Providence, one of the nation’s largest health systems, Jim joins Providence leaders directly contributing to HL7 project teams. Jim works closely to identify opportunities to leverage new developments in data standards and contribute technical advancements back to HL7, ISO, and IEEE standards development.Given the dramatic changes in technology and healthcare delivery, Jim previously founded the Institute for Healthcare Financial Technology, which upon inception will be a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the healthcare value chain to reduce costs and streamline access and delivery of healthcare. IHFT builds on the innovations of financial, insurance and healthcare technology, especially in such concepts as distributed ledgers, blockchain, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).Jim is a 2019 and 2020 FedHealthIT 100 winner, and is also active in the Healthcare Committee for the Government Blockchain Association, and member of the HIMSS Healthcare Blockchain Working Group. He is an advisor to multiple healthcare Blockchain start-ups, and guest lectures on Blockchain and technology at Universities and Industry.Jim has worked with large and small companies focusing on Agile development and project management, cyber security and healthcare information technology. Prior to that, Jim was Senior Director for Interoperability at HIMSS, a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.Jim is a veteran and former naval officer, having served in both active and reserve capacity.--Follow Jim St-Clair https://twitter.com/jstclair1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimstclair/Follow Mathieu Glaude https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/

In today’s episode, I talk about the importance of data inputs and semantics with joined by Paul Knowles, an individual who defines himself as a semantic nerd.- How Paul leverages his 25 years of experience as a data semantics expert in the Pharma industry for decentralized identity- The Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) – a safe and secure data sharing economy- The Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA)- Community involvement at the Trust Over IP Foundation, Sovrin Foundation, MyData Global and more!----Paul Knowles has a degree in Information Business Systems Technology from the University of Essex in Colchester, UK. His reputation as a data semantics expert and innovator has been established through a 25-year career in pharmaceutical biometrics where he has worked with companies including Roche, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen and Pfizer.In terms of decentralized data initiatives, Paul is the innovation lead behind the Master Mouse Model (MMM), a conceptual model for a Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) – a safe and secure data sharing economy. He is also the inventor of the Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA) and the main spearhead behind the Blinding Identity Taxonomy (BIT), both of which facilitate a unified data language so that harmonized data can be utilized by dynamic data sharing hubs for improved data science, statistics, analytics and other meaningful services.Paul is the Head of the Advisory Council at Human Colossus Foundation, a convener of the ToIP Inputs & Semantics WG, Head of Communications at Sovrin Foundation, a co-lead of the Covid Credentials Initiative’s “Use Case Implementation” workstream, a co-founder of MyData Health and an active contributing member at MyData Global and Kantara Initiative.Follow Paul Knowles Twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticnerd LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenralFollow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/semantics-for-ssi-with-paul-knowles/

This episode covers,- Using a crypto background to understand get excited about Decentralized ID for #SocialImpact- Becoming a founding Steward of Sovrin Foundation & launching Tykn to help refugees and people who've lost their identities- Working with the Turkish Government to issue Work Permit docs to their Syrian Refugee population- User experience design and Tykn’s approach to SSI wallets and enterprise applications.--Jimmy J.P. is the co-founder and CEO of Tykn. Jimmy is a social entrepreneur, business developer and public speaker currently residing in The Hague, The Netherlands. After having worked as a professional musician in Spain and having started his first company in The Netherlands before the age of 20, Jimmy co-founded the now award-winning digital ID company Tykn.As an evangelist of data privacy and an early adopter of crypto, Jimmy has spoken about the merits of blockchain and self-sovereign identity at conferences and institutions worldwide since 2017, and has been featured in multiple publications, including The Guardian.In this conversation, Jimmy and I discuss how his background in crypto led him towards understanding and being excited about decentralized identity for social impact, how he got into SSI by being a founding steward of Sovrin, launching Tykn to help refugees and people that lost their identities, working with the Turkish Government to help issue Work Permit docs to their Syrian Refugee population, user experience design and Tykn’s approach to SSI wallets and enterprise applications. I very much enjoyed the conversation with Jimmy - I think we could have spent many hours talking about this stuff. Enjoy!Follow Jimmy J.P. Snoek Twitter: https://twitter.com/idforgood LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-jp-snoek/Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/self-sovereign-identity-for-social-impact-with-jimmy-snoek/

Adrian is one of the best advocates of self-sovereign identity out there. He describes himself as being on a quest to explore decentralized solutions to counter these threatening business practices. He focuses on providing basic education about self-sovereign identity via SSI Ambassador and building a strong community for the Lissi Initiative, a SSI Wallet focused on internationalization and has been made available in 12 languages. Adrian is also involved with the IDUnion organization, where they are creating an open ecosystem for decentralized identity management oriented towards European values and regulations.In this conversation, Adrian and I discuss how he got into SSI, his work on LISSI and IDUnion, how important contextualization & internationalization are for user experience design in SSI Wallets, using SSI in the decentralized assets world, bridging the gap between crypto and institutions using SSI and more. Enjoy!Follow Adrian Doerk Twitter: https://twitter.com/doerkadrian LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-doerk/Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/ssi-digital-wallets-and-internationalizing-ssi-products/

Heather Dahl is CEO of Indicio.tech. She was previously Executive Director & CEO of Sovrin Foundation, a public service utility enabling self-sovereign digital identity on the internet. She is also Co-Founder of CynjaTech which provides microledger data security, encrypted communication channels and guardianship tools for blockchain technology.In this conversation we discuss how simplifying SSI education is critical to its broad adoption, Indicio's mission and transition into a public benefits corporation, lessons learned from working at Sovrin, the importance of usability, accessibility, guardianship and more to achieve sustainable social benefits, creating business models and incentive mechanisms for public identity utility node operators and finally takeaways from working alongside existing enterprise and start-ups.Follow Heather Dahl Twitter: https://twitter.com/heathercdahl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathercdahl/Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/removing-roadblocks-to-ssi-adoption/