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Identity

A collection of 10 posts

AKASHA Core: Decentralized Identifiers 101 (DIDs)

AKASHA Core: Decentralized Identifiers 101 (DIDs)

Tired of the pitfalls of traditional identity models? Imagine a world where you own your online identity, free from centralized control and the constant threat of data breaches. This is the promise of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs).

Vibe Check: Building Transparent Moderation in Web3 Social Media

Vibe Check: Building Transparent Moderation in Web3 Social Media

Social media moderation often feels chaotic, but it doesn't have to be this way. Discover how clear rules, transparency, and user accountability can transform the moderation process for a fairer and more just virtual world.

Digitalizing human identity

Digitalizing human identity

Human identity is conceived slightly differently by each discipline in their varied attempts to explain the world and how our species survives and thrives. While they may have differences, they have one thing in common — none looks anything like digital identity. Or perhaps I should write — digital identity looks nothing

Self-Sovereign Identity — the book, the dystopia

Self-Sovereign Identity — the book, the dystopia

Manning Publications has just published "Self-Sovereign Identity: Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials". ISBN-13: 978-1617296598 / ISBN-10: 1617296597 Congratulations to the co-editors, Alex Preukschat and Drummond Reed, for getting 24 chapters, 5 appendices, and a further 11 online-only chapters out the door. No mean feat. My copy will drop

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The Internet Identity Workshop convened its 31st biannual gathering this week. Being a Zoom-based affair (under the pandemic circumstances), I was able to 'tune in' from London for several sessions. Thanks to Doc Searls, Joyce Searls, and Drummond Reed for the invitation to join in and specifically to

A call for interdisciplinarity — generative identity and the Internet Identity Workshop

A call for interdisciplinarity — generative identity and the Internet Identity Workshop

The post Generative identity — beyond self-sovereignty (2nd September) has spawned a lot of conversation in private channels and on the ProjectVRM Harvard mailing list ... some 15,000 words in exchanges with more than a dozen people active in ‘digital identity’. This post is dedicated to the most salient parts by

Generative identity — beyond self-sovereignty

Generative identity — beyond self-sovereignty

With thanks to those who commented on draft versions: Matthew Schutte, Jonathan Donner, Martin Etzrodt, Andrei Sambra, Mihai Alisie. Hero image generated from the original image by Ryan Alexander. I'm going to outline three ways to think about digital identity to help move the conversation forward in line

Verifying identity as a social intersection

Verifying identity as a social intersection

Co-author of Radical Markets Glen Weyl invited me to review Verifying Identity as a Social Intersection, co-authored with his colleague at Microsoft, Dr. Nicole Immorlica, and Stanford University's Professor Matthew Jackson. The topic is so-called digital identity, a term that could be mistaken for how personal and group

SSI Meetup webinar — on interpersonal data, identity, and collective minds

Thoughts & Ideas

SSI Meetup webinar — on interpersonal data, identity, and collective minds

In an insightful introduction to self-sovereign identity (SSI) from 2016, Christopher Allen notes that online identity has progressed through four broad stages: 1. Centralized identity — administrative control by a single authority or hierarchy 2. Federated identity — administrative control by multiple, federated authorities 3. User-centric identity — individual or administrative control across