Exploring Digital Identity for Policy Makers
Digital Identity Workshop for Policy Makers focused on understanding the context of identity systems and emerging technologies like SSI.
Kaliya Young known as the IdentityWoman is visiting London and offering a workshop for policy makers at Newspeak House.
This workshop was first offered on September 19th. It will be a the same content .
There are key policy issues to do with digital identity emerging in the UK, across Europe and the Globe which are generally not well understood.
There are significant long-term risks for getting it wrong, and there are also some really good new “solutions” or ways of doing digital identity systems that both provide user-agency and control, and support organizational business needs.
The workshop will cover key basics to understand what identity systems are and how they serve as core institutional memory. It will walk through key elements of digital identity systems and consider the emerging technologies that are part of considerations of eIDAS and other government identity systems across the globe including issuance of US Green Cards.
She began working on "user-centric" digital identity almost 20 years ago. She has convened the Internet Identity Workshop twice a years since 2005. It is the worlds leading innovation forum and in its first 10 years stewarded the OpenID and OAuth protocols into being in last 7 years it has innovated Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identity technologies. She is an expert in them and is active in the Decentralized Identity Foundation, Trust over IP, and the W3C Credentials Community Group among others.
The last two years she has served as the chair of the Verifiable Credentials Policy Committee in California working to get her state to pass legislation. Last month AB786 passed both houses and is now on the governors desk and will let count registrars issue vital records documents as verifiable credentials (one of the SSI protocols).
Her Recent Work Includes:
- Seeing Self-Sovereign Identity in Historical Context
- Verifiable Credentials Flavors Explained
- Key Differences Between the US Social Security System and India’s Aadhaar System
- Identity and Systems Leadership for Catalytic Change
- The Domains of Identity: A Framework for Understanding Identity Systems in Contemporary Society.
The workshop will be free. Any donations will be split by Kaliya and Newspeak House
The workshop will be 3 hours and include two 15 min breaks going from 1-4:30.
Digital Identity Workshop for Policy Makers focused on understanding the context of identity systems and emerging technologies like SSI.
Kaliya Young known as the IdentityWoman is visiting London and offering a workshop for policy makers at Newspeak House.
This workshop was first offered on September 19th. It will be a the same content .
There are key policy issues to do with digital identity emerging in the UK, across Europe and the Globe which are generally not well understood.
There are significant long-term risks for getting it wrong, and there are also some really good new “solutions” or ways of doing digital identity systems that both provide user-agency and control, and support organizational business needs.
The workshop will cover key basics to understand what identity systems are and how they serve as core institutional memory. It will walk through key elements of digital identity systems and consider the emerging technologies that are part of considerations of eIDAS and other government identity systems across the globe including issuance of US Green Cards.
She began working on "user-centric" digital identity almost 20 years ago. She has convened the Internet Identity Workshop twice a years since 2005. It is the worlds leading innovation forum and in its first 10 years stewarded the OpenID and OAuth protocols into being in last 7 years it has innovated Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identity technologies. She is an expert in them and is active in the Decentralized Identity Foundation, Trust over IP, and the W3C Credentials Community Group among others.
The last two years she has served as the chair of the Verifiable Credentials Policy Committee in California working to get her state to pass legislation. Last month AB786 passed both houses and is now on the governors desk and will let count registrars issue vital records documents as verifiable credentials (one of the SSI protocols).
Her Recent Work Includes:
- Seeing Self-Sovereign Identity in Historical Context
- Verifiable Credentials Flavors Explained
- Key Differences Between the US Social Security System and India’s Aadhaar System
- Identity and Systems Leadership for Catalytic Change
- The Domains of Identity: A Framework for Understanding Identity Systems in Contemporary Society.
The workshop will be free. Any donations will be split by Kaliya and Newspeak House
The workshop will be 3 hours and include two 15 min breaks going from 1-4:30.