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_posts/blockchain/2019-04-11-blockchain-identity.md

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 date: 2019-04-11
 title: Blockchain Identity
 description: "Why Blockchain for Identity? + Assorted Blockchain ID Initiatives"
+excerpt: "Traditional identity systems typically suffer from single points of failure, lack of interoperability, and privacy issues such as encouraging mass data collection and user tracking. Blockchain technology has the potential to support novel data ownership and governance models with built-in control and consent mechanisms, which may benefit both users and businesses by alleviating these concerns; as a result, blockchain-based IDMSs are beginning to proliferate."
+header: 
+  image: /images/blockchain-id-header.png
+  caption: "[NIST Cybersecurity (DRAFT) Blockchain Identity Management Approaches](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.00929.pdf)" 
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 permalink: /blockchain/

_posts/government/2019-03-01-government.md

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 ---
 date: 2019-03-01
 title: Decentralized Identity and the Public Sector
+description: "Assorted Resources Related to Blockchain and Identity for Government and the Public Sector."
+excerpt: "Modern identity and access management (IAM) came into focus during the late 1930s, when a group of European countries began issuing national ID cards. During this time, creating a more systematic approach for establishing and authenticating the official use of trusted identities emerged."
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 canonical_url: 'https://decentralized-id.com/government/'
@@ -10,12 +12,20 @@ redirect_from:
   - state-sponsored
   - public-sector/
   - id-initiatives/state-sponsored/
+header:
+  image: /images/blockchange-identity-header.png
+  caption: "[On the Emergent Use of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Identity Management](https://blockchan.ge/blockchange-fieldreport.pdf)"
 categories: ["Blockchain","Government"]
 tags: ["USA","Canada","Europe"]
 last_modified_at: 2019-01-11
 toc: false
 ---
 
+#### [European Government Identity Initiatives]({% link _posts/government/europe/2020-01-11-europe.md %})
+
+#### [Decentralized Identity and the United States Public Sector]({% link _posts/government/2020-01-11-usa.md %})
+
+## Blockchain and Digital ID
 
 [Blockchain for digital government](https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/2019-04/JRC115049%20blockchain%20for%20digital%20government.pdf)
   > This report looks at the ongoing exploration of blockchain technology by governments. The analysis of a group of pioneering developments of public services shows that blockchain technology can reduce bureaucracy, increase the efficiency of administrative processes and increase the level of trust in public recordkeeping. Based on the state-ofart developments, blockchain has not yet demonstrated to be either transformative or even disruptive innovation for governments as it is sometimes portrayed. Ongoing projects bring incremental rather than fundamental changes to the operational capacities of governments. Nevertheless some of them propose clear value for citizens.

_posts/government/2020-01-11-usa.md

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 ---
 date: 2020-01-11
-title: Decentralized Identity and US Government Bodies
+title: In the United States Public Sector
+description: The United States Department Homeland Security has been the source of a considerable amount of funding for effort to create next-gen decentralized id infrastructure.
+excerpt: "The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise. SVIP expands DHS S&T’s reach to find new technologies that strengthen national security with the goal of reshaping how government, entrepreneurs, and industry work together to find cutting-edge solutions."
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-permalink: 
-redirect_from: /government/usa/
+permalink: /government/usa/
 canonical_url: 'https://decentralized-id.com/government/usa/'
 categories: ["Blockchain","Government"]
 tags: ["DHS", "SBIR", "SVIP", "Evernym", "Digital Bazaar","Danube","Learning Machine","Respect Network"]

_posts/literature/2018-12-21-self-sovereign-identity.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ It would seem that Christopher Allen's [The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity](htt
 
 Considerable additional material has been created on the subject since then, including some helpful criticism on the principles. Some of initial thoughts have been organized in [evolution-of-ssi](/literature/self-sovereign-identity/evolution-of-ssi/).
 
-[![](https://i.imgur.com/S9uBk4k.png)]((https://medium.com/@trbouma/self-sovereign-identity-an-unofficial-generic-icon-a5a6ab332cd7))
+[![](https://i.imgur.com/S9uBk4k.png)](https://medium.com/@trbouma/self-sovereign-identity-an-unofficial-generic-icon-a5a6ab332cd7)
 
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