* [Is the Self-Sovereign digital identity the future digital business registry?](https://blogs.worldbank.org/psd/self-sovereign-digital-identity-future-digital-business-registry) 2021-12-17GORAN VRANIC, ANDREJA MARUSIC; WorldBank
> This rapid digitalization of the private sector exposed a challenge in the business registration paradigm. To use private digital platforms for e-Logistics or e-Commerce, SMEs have to register and confirm their identity with these platforms, despite already being identified in the government business registry.
* [Decentralized ID Management Business Value of SSI](https://www.inforisktoday.com/self-sovereign-identity-more-use-cases-a-16448) 2021-04-22Heather Dahl, Ken Ebert Indicio
> The decentralized workforce is also fueling demand for self-sovereign identity, Dahl says. "When you physically decentralize your workforce in society, the need for identity becomes more important." She says increasing concerns about protecting privacy are "pushing organizations to consider identity solutions that don't involve correlation and don't involve third-party tracking but also provide the security.”
* [Making Money with SSI](https://trinsic.id/webinar-recap-making-money-with-ssi/) 2020-10-20 Trinsic
> - How to go from a use case to a business case
> - Overcoming common adoption challenges
> - How Trinsic can help you build a successful SSI business
* [SSI Business Models and Go-to-Market](https://sgershuni.medium.com/ssi-business-models-and-go-to-market-663813eea3b4) 2021-03-01
> I’m focusing on the business model and go-to-market aspects.
> What are some limitations and opportunities for making profitable business in self-sovereign identity?
* [Podcast] [Economics of Self-Sovereign Identity and the Future of Cryptoeconomics with Stepan Gershuni](https://anchor.fm/ssi-orbit-podcast/episodes/9---Economics-of-Self-Sovereign-Identity-and-the-Future-of-Cryptoeconomics-with-Stepan-Gershuni-euvf32/a-a58m81q) SSIOrbit
> - Biz models of web1, web2, web3
> - SSI Adoption Strategy
> - Verifiability = Economic Efficiencies
> - Cryptoeconomics x SSI (h/t [@mathieu_glaude](https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude)
* [On Self-Sovereign Identity: What's the Business Value of SSI?](https://hackernoon.com/self-sovereign-identity-what-is-the-business-value-uq6l36wh) 2019-11-29Hackernoon
> To businesses, immediate value comes from removal of the costly and challenging GDPR compliance.[Forbes reports](https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliversmith/2018/05/02/the-gdpr-racket-whos-making-money-from-this-9bn-business-shakedown/)that in 2018 in the UK alone $1,1 billion was spent by companies on GDPR preparation, while US companies allocated over $7.8 billion on protecting customers’ personal information.
* [Career Advice for New Professionals in Identity](https://iiw.idcommons.net/22D/_Career_Advice_for_New_Professionals_in_Identity)2021-05-06 Megan Olsen
> IIW trying to imagine what’s the proven stuff for 5 years down the road, start designing it now. Bleeding edge of digital identity in some respects. Other pockets of the internet where you can find where the innovators are doing stuff. Most 95% of companies in Identity trying to get some enterprise(s) properly connected, wired up. Industry, IAM. Consider as two separate fields. Identity research, science - vs. Identity Operations. Most work in Identity is Identity Operations and Business practice.
* [How SSI Can Make Any Platform a 'Super App'](https://bloom.co/blog/how-ssi-can-make-any-platform-a-super-app/) 2021-01-20 Bloom
> Companies that support a Verifiable Credential Issuance standard can provide audited and truthful information to any third party on behalf of and with specific permission from their customers. For example, a bank could provide proof-of-funds in the form of a digitally verified credential document, that can then be used as a source of truth to instantly initiate a mortgage application, or a real estate purchase offer.
* [Building a Relationship Economy](https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2022/02/11/building-a-relationship-economy/) 2022-02-11Doc Searls
> Is there something new that open source development methods and values can bring to the economy? How about something old?
* [The Identity Imperative: Risk Management, Value Creation, and Balance of Power Shifts](https://identitypraxis.com/2021/12/10/the-identity-imperative-risk-management-value-creation-and-balance-of-power-shifts/) 2021-12-10 Michael BeckerIdentityPraxis
> Brands need to prepare for fundamental shifts in people’s attitudes and expectations. The implications of these shifts will be profound, as they will force a change in competition, business models, product offerings, and business practices.
* [Where the Intention Economy Beats the Attention Economy](https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2021/10/04/where-intention/) 2021-10-04 Doc Searls
> There’s an economic theory here: Free customers are more valuable than captive ones—to themselves, to the companies they deal with, and to the marketplace. If that’s true, [the intention economy](https://www.amazon.com/Intention-Economy-When-Customers-Charge/dp/1422158527)will prove it. If not, we’ll stay stuck in the attention economy, where the belief that captive customers are more valuable than free ones prevails.
* [Just ask](https://werd.io/2021/just-ask)2021 Werd
> We’d get the startup founders to figure out the biggest assumptions they were making across user risk (do people want this?), business risk (can this be the center of a viable business?), and feasibility risk (can we build this in a scalable way with the time, team, and resources potentially at our disposal?). And then we’d ask them to go out and figure out how to de-risk those assumptions in the real world, usually by talking to experts and asking smart questions.
* [Working Spaces Are Ecosystems Too!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfBoUDNcyW4)Autumn Watkinson 2022-03-23 Trust over IP Foundation
> An ecosystem is a community of living organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment. When you hear that definition, you might priture a pristine nature landscape, but that definition can also apply to how businesses, individual or organization interact with one and other. This talk is about natural ecosystem and how we can adapt nature's lessons to our industry ecosystems.
* [How my team won FinCEN/FDIC’s Digital Identity Tech Sprint](https://medium.com/global-id/how-my-team-won-fincen-fdics-digital-identity-tech-sprint-3af744b818a5) 2022-04-13Vadim SlavinGlobalID
> “What is a scalable, cost-efficient, risk-based solution to measure the effectiveness of digital identity proofing to ensure that individuals who remotely (i.e., not in person) present themselves for financial activities are who they claim to be?”
* [Can Self-Sovereign Identity Deliver Business Value?](https://walton.uark.edu/insights/posts/can-self-sovereign-identity-deliver-business-value-lessons-learned-from-the-nhs.php) 2022-04-19Walton College
> As [Mary Lacity](https://walton.uark.edu/departments/information-systems/directory/uid/mclacity/name/Mary+Lacity/)and [Erran Carmel](https://www.american.edu/kogod/faculty/carmel.cfm)explore in their whitepaper, [“Implementing Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) for a digital staff passport at UK NHS,”](https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wordpressua.uark.edu/dist/5/444/files/2018/01/BCoE2022SS1FINAL.pdf)the lessons learned by the NHS may point towards ways of unlocking new business value.
* [Identity Proofing – Definition, Importance, and Solutions](https://imageware.io/identity-proofing/) 2022-04-21Imageware
> The global market for identity and access management was $9.53 billion USD in 2018 and is expected to reach $24.76 billion USD by the end of 2026, showing a CAGR of 13.2% during the forecast year.
* [Indicio Executive Workshop: The Business and Investor’s Guide to Self-Sovereign Identity](https://indicio.tech/new-indicio-executive-workshop-provides-essential-grounding-in-digital-identity-the-business-and-investors-guide-to-self-sovereign-identity/)2021-12-14 Scott Harris Indicio
> Participants will [walk away with an essential understanding](https://indicio.tech/product/executive-education-ssi-workshop/)of how SSI works, the pain points it solves for, the risks it mitigates, the use cases currently in deployment, and the opportunities that are created by being able to build Trusted Data Ecosystems (TDEs).
> SSI will have to be integrated with large existing business processes – and therefore enterprise systems such as ERPs, HCMs, or SCMs to name a few. If this integration results in SSI being as easy to use as clicking a button or selecting a menu item, it will lead to rapid uptake and acceptance.
* [The 7 Deadly Sins of Digital Customer Relationships](https://www.evernym.com/blog/7-deadly-sins-customer-relationships/) 2021-03-02 Evernym
> It’s not just about measuring customers, it’s about keeping them. Yet the more I look at how businesses design and manage their relationships with customers, the more I see dysfunction, waste and a collapse of consumer trust. In fact, I see a number of core business behaviours that are causing this waste, this dysfunction. Seven to be precise.
* [Decentralized Identifiers: Building Smarter, More Sustainable Customer Relationships](https://www.evernym.com/blog/decentralized-identifiers-customer-relationships/) 2021-03-02 Evernym
> DIDs are about building lasting private and secure digital relationships with customers, and as we’ll see with each of the Deadly Sins, about reducing costs, increasing compliance and enabling truly personalized products and services – without being creepy.
* [What Does Self-Sovereign Identity Mean For My Business?](https://www.continuumloop.com/what-does-self-sovereign-identity-mean-for-my-business/) 2017-09-22Continuum Loop
> “Self-Sovereign Identity not only presents an opportunity for businesses to build smarter, more secure, and more scalable relationships with customers; but it will enable them to completely rethink how they build trusted digital relationships from the ground up.”
>
> We expect Digital Transformationto be a more prevalent talking point around digital identity. FOMO can go a long way, to sell SII, for Goverments and Corporations striving to not be left behind in the digital age.
> Decentralized Identity has gone international! In this week’s GIMS, we’ll talk about some of the most exciting projects and some of the lessons learned from around the globe.
* [Decentralized Identity Market See Huge Growth for New Normal - Microsoft, Accenture, Persistent](https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/decentralized-identity-market-see-huge-growth-for-new-normal-microsoft-accenture-persistent) 2022-06-10Digital Journal
> - Global Economic Impact on Industry
> - Global Market Competition by Manufacturers
> - Global Production, Revenue (Value) by Region
> - Global Supply (Production), Consumption, Export, Import by Regions
> - Global Production, Revenue (Value), Price Trend by Type
> - Global Market Analysis by Application
> - Manufacturing Cost Analysis
> - Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers
* [What will we learn from the Market Failure of Digital Identity?](https://lockstep.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Steve-Wilson-Identiverse-2022-Market-Failure-0.6-HANDOUTS.pdf) 2022-07Stephen Wilson
> The common law system countries (AU, CA, NZ, UK & US) left the market to work out identity, and the market “decided” that there’s no need for IdPs. Let us respect that decision. The market has been trying to tell us for over a decade: IDENTITY IS NOT FOR SALE!
> For decades, all TV signals were “over the air,” and free to be watched by anyone with a TV and an antenna.
* [Multi-Cloud orchestration makes identity work](https://idramp.com/multi-cloud-orchestration-makes-identity-work/) 2022-07-19IDRamp
> It’s called decentralized identity orchestration and brings with it uniform security controls and functionality to your applications, services, and clouds. And built using open source and open standards, it establishes vendor neutrality, provides superior agility for continuous digital transformation, and propels digital business forward.
* [Top 8 Identity Challenges After an Merger and Acquisition](https://www.radiantlogic.com/blog/top-8-identity-challenges-after-an-ma/) 2022-06-20RadiantLogic
> If you’re on the IT team, your headaches are just beginning as you’ll be responsible for integrating the new employees into your current tech and identity stack. You’ll be faced with multiple identity sources, a new identity governance and administration (IGA) solution to look at, various LDAP and Active Directory (AD) data sources to deal with, and several cloud applications that use various single sign-on (SSO) solutions to federate identity.
> Big things are happening in the digital identity space, here we outline just a few recent articles we think everyone should hear about.
- [Digital ID bill sees action in the House and Senate](https://fcw.com/congress/2022/07/digital-id-bill-sees-action-house-and-senate/374552/%C2%A0)
- [Will EU digital identity drop the unique identifier?](https://www.biometricupdate.com/202207/will-eu-digital-identity-drop-the-unique-identifier%C2%A0)
- [Why digital identity will make or break the Metaverse](https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/07/why-digital-identity-will-make-or-break-the-metaverse/%C2%A0)
- [Young people at greater risk of falling victim to identity fraud](https://www.digit.fyi/young-people-at-greater-risk-of-falling-victim-to-identity-fraud/%C2%A0)
* [Why plastic cards are a model for verifiable credentials as a service](https://lockstep.com.au/magnetic-stripe-cards-and-verifiable-credentials/) 2022-08-16Lockstep
> The plastic card paradigm has some powerful features which are instructive for the emerging VCs-as-a-service industry.
> - A competitive market of card personalisation bureaus, providing custom production, magnetic stripe encoding, and card distribution and activation, all in commercial bundles which can be purchased by government agencies, banks, professional associations, universities, driver licence bureaus, and so on. On the rear of many plastic cards, the card manufacturer is indicated in fine print. It may well be that the same manufacturer produced your credit cards and government cards.
* [How to rewrite a press release: a step-by-step guide](https://blog.jonudell.net/2022/08/13/how-to-rewrite-a-press-release-a-step-by-step-guide/) 2022-08-13Jon Udell
> Lead with key benefits.The release features two: support for diplex-matched antennas and faster workflow. The original headline mentions only the first, I added the second.
>
> Clarify modifiers. A phrase like “diplex matched antennas” is ambiguous. Does “matched” modify “diplex” or “antennas”? The domain is unfamiliar to me, but I suspected it should be “diplex-matched” and a web search confirmed that hunch.
>
> Omit needless words.The idea of faster workflow appears in the original first paragraph as “new efficiencies aimed at streamlining antenna design workflows and shortening design cycles.” That’s a long, complicated, yet vague way of saying “enables designers to work faster.”
* [McK Insights: Why digital trust truly matters, and what it means for your bottom line](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-carsten-st%C3%B6cker-1145871_mck-why-digital-trust-truly-matters-activity-6976042326783619072-uSIz/)2022-09-15 Dr. Carsten Stöcker
> The results of our survey of more than 1,300 business leaders and 3,000 consumers globally suggest that establishing trust in products and experiences that leverage AI, digital technologies, and data not only meets consumer expectations but also could promote growth.
> An Interactive workshop designed to uncover the winning strategies, and pitfalls to avoid, when communicating decentralized identity to customers, internal stakeholders, and the world.
* [Decentralized identity: The key to the digital era?](https://venturebeat.com/2020/10/28/decentralized-identity-the-key-to-the-digital-era/) 2020-10-28 Venture Beat
> They quote [Forrester](https://www.forrester.com/report/New+Tech+Decentralized+Digital+Identity+DDID+Q1+2020/-/E-RES147115) “*Today’s digital identity frameworks are centralized, suffer from a lack of trust, aren’t portable, and don’t give consumers control.*”
>
> They touch on a new acronym saying : enterprise-level thinking around next-generation authentication is focused on initiatives such as [SPIFFE](https://spiffe.io/), the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone
* [Officially a Technical Provider for Enterprise Solutions through Cointelegraph Consulting](https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/ontology-is-now-officially-a-technical-provider-for-enterprise-solutions-through-cointelegraph-80db38c45489) 2020-11-04 Ontology
* [FYI on National Science Foundation (NSF) Funding Opportunity: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems program](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Feb/0142.html) 2022-02
> NSF is introducing a new program called "Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems" (POSE). The purpose of the program is to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Many NSF-funded research projects result in publicly accessible, modifiable, and distributable open-sourced software, hardware or data platforms that catalyze further innovation.
* [Deadline 2023-09-07] [Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE)](https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems-pose) National Science Foundation
> Supports the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.
