📌 Key facts
Contents
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals
- 🧠 Topics of Interest
- 🎓 Profile
- 📚 Further Reading
- 📄 Requirements to any Work
- 📬 How to Apply
💡 Background
The need for globally unique identifier schemes has been addressed many times. Globally unique ID schemes typically rely on a central authority controlling a 'root' space that is then delegated to local organizations who in turn delegate to further organizations who eventually add the final string to complete the identifier.
In all these cases, ultimately, there is a central authority on which the identifier system depends. Those central authorities go to significant efforts to make their identifiers persistent and resolvable, however, should they cease to exist, the long term integrity of the identifier is at least questionable to a greater or lesser extent. For as long as those organizations exist (and they are generally well established with no immediate threat to their survival), the way to assess whether a particular identifier is in some way 'valid' is to query the issuing authority.
These factors point to a need in some circumstances for a globally unique identifier that is 'self sovereign', that is, one that does not depend on any issuing authority.
Source of content:
www.w3.org
www.w3.org
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- Reappraisal of the economic significance of decentralized identifiers
- Conduct systematic research on dezentralized identifiers:
- Identification of use cases for decentralized identifiers
- Creating an overview of the startup landscape in the area of decentralized identifiers
🧠 Topics of Interest
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for career management / your own brand & future / entrepreneurship / venture capital
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0
Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID refers to any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) as determined by the controller of the DID.
www.w3.org
DIF - Decentralized Identity Foundation
SIA UHODL Digital Bazaar, Credentia, Blockchain Commons, Patient Privacy Rights, infocert, Bitmark, Radical Ledger Technologies, MYKEY, Dominode, Hedera Hashgraph, Octopus.sh, Janeiro Digital, Cryptonics, Evernym, AyanWorks Technology Solutions, SIA UHODL, CHELPIS, IDmachines, Domi Labs, Traversity, Antum, SettleMint, HACERA, Oxford Computer Group, Voatz, IdRamp, ControlBEAM, Blockchain Secure, Cloudocracy, TruthShare Software Private, Assertiv,
identity.foundation
Evernym | The Self-Sovereign Identity Company
When you work with Evernym, you work with the world's leading expert in decentralized identity. With deep skills in digital identity, cryptography, privacy, security and new governance frameworks, we are the original developers of Hyperledger Indy and the creator of the Sovrin Network and the Sovrin Foundation.
www.evernym.com
How to Start a New Country - Balaji Srinivasan Explained
Edit: This video is now featured on 1729!https://1729.com/how-to-start-a-new-country/https://twitter.com/abnux2-Thanks to Spade #/7902 for the timestamps! 😎...
www.youtube.com
Not your keys, not your identity. or.... Decentralized Identity (DID) and self sovereignty.
You are likely to soon, if not already, hear about DIDs and their core role in enabling self sovereignty online and how it relates to Blockchain (and even Bitcoin) I wanted to try explain the Why and How of this in as simple as possible terms. In the physical world I have a wallet full of ID cards, I use these to prove that I am who I am or attest to an attribute of me?
exchange.realvision.com
Decentralized Identity Starts With Owning Your Name
Author's Note: This is Part 4 of my NFT series. Click here to read Part 1, where I document the rise of NFTs. And here for Part 2, where I talk about it as a foundation of the new world. And here for...
medium.com
The Future of Decentralized Social Media w/ Balaji Srinivasan, Vitalik Buterin, Juan Benet
🚀 The Future of Decentralized Social Media w/ Balaji Srinivasan, Vitalik Buterin, Juan Benet. Moderated by Kartik TalwarThe flaws of centralized social medi...
www.youtube.com
Digital Wallets As Identity
To investors, Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan was tweeting about the future of crypto wallets yesterday and he brought up a number of interesting points. His core idea was: The conversation continued with a focus on monetization of these digital wallets.
pomp.substack.com
8 Decentralized identifiers · Self-Sovereign Identity livebook
Decentralized identifiers (abbreviated as "DIDs"), are the cryptographic counterpart to verifiable credentials (VCs) that together are the "twin pillars" of SSI standardization. In this chapter you will learn how DIDs evolved from the work started with VCs, how they are related to URLs and URNs, why a new type of cryptographically-verifiable identifier is needed for SSI, and how DIDs are being standardized at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
livebook.manning.com
An introduction to decentralized identities | Azure Friday
Danny Strockis joins Scott Hanselman to discuss decentralized identity, which gives users ownership of their digital identities and data by leveraging permis...
www.youtube.com
A Primer for Decentralized Identifiers
A Decentralized Identifier (DID) is a new type of identifier that is globally unique, resolveable with high availability, and cryptographically verifiable. DIDs are typically associated with cryptographic material, such as public keys, and service endpoints, for establishing secure communication channels.
w3c-ccg.github.io
41 - Crypto-Civilization | Balaji Srinivasan
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www.youtube.com
Decentralized identity explained
What is decentralized identity? How does it give you more control over your digital identity and keep your information on the internet safer? This video expl...
www.youtube.com
Balaji Srinivasan: Applications: Today & 2025
Balaji Srinivasan, an angel investor and cofounder of multiple companies including Earn.com and Counsyl, gives an overview of "Applications: Today and 2025."...
www.youtube.com
Decentralized identity - security and privacy of the future - Avenga
How do the computers know that we are who we are? The most popular method is based on the existence of something or the knowledge of something that no other people have. The most common expression of this method is using passwords, which are expected to be unique for a given login, creating hard to guess combinations of the login and the password.
www.avenga.com
Decentralized identity: the key to digital business
In the digital world, identity is key to everything we do. Want to pick up from where you left off in your latest streaming TV series? Desperate to know when your impulse-bought top-of-the-range flight simulator rig is turning up?
www.thoughtworks.com
How Decentralized Identifiers Will Shape the Future of Identity | Hacker Noon
Exploring the W3C DID specification to enable Web3.0 identity solutions... Hackers value personal information the most. 96% of hacking groups' primary motive is intelligence gathering. Researchers at privacy website PrivacyAffairs.com found that you can obtain a person's full identity for the low price of $1,275.
hackernoon.com
www.itu.int
www.itu.int
Decentralized identifiers for DeFi? Definitively. | Hacker Noon
Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is a cryptocurrency area that has recently been attracting significant attention. DeFi refers to financial services using Between September 2017 and September 2020, the total value locked up in DeFi contracts grown significantly, from $2.1 million to $6.9 billion (£1.6 million to £5.3 billion).
hackernoon.com
Improving the Privacy of IoT with Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs)
When IoT devices operate not only with the owner of the device but also with third parties, identifying the device using a permanent identifier, e.g., a hardware identifier, can present privacy problems due to the identifier facilitating tracking and correlation attacks. A changeable identifier can be used to reduce the risk on privacy.
www.hindawi.com
Distributed Identity: A Beginner's Guide | ThirdSpace Blog
Identity within IT has been around for a long time. Specifically, within IT, identities have been used in applications such as finance, HR or other systems. When network systems became more prevalent (yes, this was back in the '80s), what DID people do to sign in?
thirdspace.net
industrywired.com
industrywired.com
Blockchain for Digital Identity: Real World Use Cases | ConsenSys
By using this site, you agree to our use of cookies, which we use to analyse our traffic in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We also share information about your use of our site with our analytics partners. The traditional identity systems of today are fragmented, insecure, and exclusive.
consensys.net
Best Decentralized Identity Software in 2021 | G2
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www.g2.com
Four decentralized identity startups selected from around the world for intensive 12-week Incubator
San Francisco, Aug. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Self-Sovereign Identity Incubator (SSII) today announced the names of the four startups selected to participate in the world's first incubator for digital identity.
www.globenewswire.com
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside the university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe and Christian Ziegler (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!
👉 welpe@tum.de and christian.ziegler@tum.de