Digital Identity Across Asia : An IIW 1/2 Day Workshop

Digital Identity Across Asia

Tuesday August 9th, 2022 / 1:00am - 6:00am UTC

This IIW Special Topic event is for individuals, practitioners, researchers, regulators, technologists, digital and privacy rights activists. We encourage people interested in decentralized identity from around the globe to attend! It provides the space for you to discuss, share and collaborate together.

Digital Identity is complex - many different communities have been working on solutions for a long time. The Internet Identity Workshop has been convening for 17 years and was a key forum in the development of OpenID and OAuth widely used on the consumer internet and in enterprise systems today. In the last several years some new protocols have been developed by the community participating in the Credentials Community Group at the W3C, Trust over IP Foundation and Decentralized Identity Foundation among others.

This event continues the tradition of IIW creating a neutral event where people from a range of different standards, efforts and businesses can come together, learn from each other, build connections and move the work forward.

Why this event is needed now, the themes we hope to cover and questions to answer ~

Significant investments have been made into the development of interoperable standards, protocols, systems application layers, conceptual use cases, and more.

These are important areas to be discussed in the region:

• readiness and maturity of the standards and components required to design, build, deploy and maintain a digital ID system for people at scale
• enabling digital ID systems which offer protection against surveillance and preserve privacy
• designing economically sustainable models for citizen services built around digital ID systems
• application of decentralized identity to the Internet of Things (IoT)

Who’s the Event For?

• People who have been working on digital identity and Self-sovereign Identity (SSI) products and services
• Those new to the concepts of SSI and want to learn what it is all about
• Government leaders seeking to understand the technology
• Consumers of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) Products and services
• People around the world working on Decentralized ID

We encourage people interested in decentralized identity from around the globe to attend!

About The Format

We will co-create the agenda live the day of the event. There are no keynotes or panels, it’s all about exploring the topic with professional peers from a range of identity areas. We do know great people who will be there and it is the attendees who have a passion for learning and contributing to the event that will make it a success.

IIW Events are participatory workshops where the agenda is co-created by participants the day of the event. We are hosting half day Special Topic IIW events that are complementary to our main three day event that happens twice a year (since 2005!) using a similar format.

The workshop will run just like our usual IIW Open Space Workshops - with an Opening and Agenda Creation, 3 sessions and a Closing Circle, for a total of 5 hours. We will also have session notes and be compiling a Book of Proceedings.

The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) has been bringing together innovators in the field of Identity focused around the individual since 2005. Please go to the IIW site www.internetidentityworkshop.com for additional information about the Internet Identity Workshop and to view the short video "What is IIW?"

Schedule - Tuesday August 9th

Time: Anchored in Asia TZ

• UTC 1:00am - 6:00am
• Delhi, India 6:30 am - 11:30am
• Bangkok, Thailand 8:00am - 1:00pm
• Tokyo, Japan10:00am - 3:00pm
• Melbourne, Australia 11:00am - 4pm
• Wellington, New Zealand 1:00:pm - 6:00pm
• Monday August 8th Pacific Time US: 6:00pm - 11:00pm

See the growing list of topics proposed by those already registered here: https://iiw.idcommons.net/Identity_Across_Asia_Proposed_Topics

IIW Digital Identity Across Asia Co-Hosts

• Kazue Sako / Waseda University/MyDataJapan / Japan
• Ms. Catherine Nabbala (Finema Co., Ltd) Thailand
• Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay / Public Interest Technologis / India

We look forward to seeing you virtually August 9, 2022!