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* [Machine identity - DIDs and verifiable credentials for a secure, trustworthy and interoperable IoT - Mrinal Wadhwa](https://ssimeetup.org/machine-identity-dids-verifiable-credentials-trust-interoperability-iot-webinar-25-mrinal-wadhwa/) 2019-04-03 SSI Meetup [presentation](https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/machine-identity-dids-and-verifiable-credentials-for-a-secure-trustworthy-and-interoperable-iot-mrinal-wadhwa)
> Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO of Ockam, will talk about how Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials, and Decentralized Key Management enable highly secure and reliable systems of connected devices.
## Deployment
## Development
* [Juicy Telemetry](https://wider.team/2022/04/04/juicy-telemetry/) 2022-04-04 Wilder Team
> I was in a [Sovrin IoT](https://sovrin.org/) call when I heard the phrase “juicy telemetry.” A digital twins product leader was bemoaning all the really good data held back by the manufacturers of equipment. Data they needed to properly model their twins, to keep them current, to validate their assumptions. For good and bad reasons, the makers of wind turbines and cars and ship engines and weather sensors choose to hide data.
* [Easier IoT Deployments with LoraWan and Helium](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/04/easier_iot_deployments_with_lorawan_and_helium.shtml) 2022-04 Phil Windley
> Unlike a Wifi network, you don't put the network credentials in the device, you put the devices credentials (keys) in the network. Once I'd done that, the sensor started connecting to hotspots near my house and transmitting data. Today I've been driving around with it in my truck and it's roaming onto other hotspots as needed, still reporting temperatures.

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title: "Data Governance and Self Sovereign Identity"
description: Individuals will gain the ability to own servers where their data is stored – and with it control their online identities.
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We should absolutely all be taking care of the data that belongs to us, our data that we create, that we have a right to be able to control and share exactly as we choose. But we should also bear in mind the power of that data to help each of us, every day, benefit from the good that can come when it is shared and used to create a better world for us all.
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## Explainer
* [Video] [Data Sovereignty International Forum 2021(English)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q2DL0ojauA) 2021-09-08 경기도청
> My personal data has value?!\
> We need to be aware of data sovereignty to recognize and protect value of our personal data.\
> Make the Fair Data World Together!
* [Everybody has our data ... except us](https://reb00ted.org/personaldata/20210620-who-has-my-personal-data/) 2021-06-20 reb00ted
> - Google has all my e-mail. (And I don’t. They merely let me access it with a browser.)
> - Facebook has the list of all of my friends and what I said to them. (And I don’t.)
> - LinkedIn has all of my business contacts. (Repeat after me: and I don’t.)
> - Instagram has all my photos. Well, the Instagram department of Facebook does. (Chorus now: and I don’t.)
> - Amazon has the list of all my purchases, and knows what products I was interested in but didn’t buy after all. (AND I DON’T.)
* [Video] [Data as competitive advantage & control mechanism in platform economy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlf5juCc6CA) 2021-06-19
> Presenters: Sangeet Paul Choudary, Molly Schwartz Session host: Riikka Kämppi Molly Schwartz chats with Sangeet Paul Choudary - best-selling author of Platform Revolution and Platform Scale and founder of Platformation Labs - unpacks the ethics and economics of data.
* [Data for good: powering our way to a better world](https://blog.digi.me/2021/04/29/data-for-good-powering-our-way-to-a-better-world/) 2021-04-29 DigiMe
> We should absolutely all be taking care of the data that belongs to us, our data that we create, that we have a right to be able to control and share exactly as we choose. But we should also bear in mind the power of that data to help each of us, every day, benefit from the good that can come when it is shared and used to create a better world for us all.
* [The Authentic Data Economy. Universal Digital Trust at Global Scale](https://dwhuseby.medium.com/the-authentic-data-economy-9802da67e1fa) 2021-02-27 David Huseby
> It leverages data collection and networking and personal computing advances. It makes our data ours and authentic. It builds on all of the previous work done by countless engineers and inventors and dreamers. However, by being the last big problem it represents the final piece that brings together everything that came before it. The scope of the authentic data economy is literally everything in the human sphere. There is nothing that this won’t change. Trust will go everywhere and into everything. But most importantly, so will privacy.
* [Personal data servers will help take back digital ID from big tech](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/personal-data-servers) 2021-01-22 Wired
> In 2021, individuals will gain the ability to own servers where their data is stored – and with it control their online identities.
>
> [...] because data from their healthcare provider acquired into the server can be used to authenticate and assert that fact without the need to give any identity information. By using PDAs, apps that rely on sensitive data will be able to access this and stay “identity blind”.
* [Katryna Dow - Data minimisation: value, trust and obligation](https://www.ubisecure.com/podcast/data-minimisation-meeco-katryna-dow/) 2020-10-14 UbiSecure
> Katryna talks to Oscar about her career (including inspiration from Minority Report), Meeco’s personal data & distributed ledger platform, the importance of data minimisation to inspire trust in organisations, and cultural differences in attitudes towards digital identity.
* [You are not your Data but Your Data is still You](https://deepdives.in/you-are-not-your-data-but-your-data-is-still-you-b41d2478ece2) 2020-08-07 DeepDives
> In the digital age, individual privacy in the broadest sense is about control over protecting one’s personally identifiable information (PII), such as information about health, credit, shopping, or communication. But the types of information deemed ‘personally identifiable’ and the amount of control one has over them varies around the world.
* [Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud](https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html) 2019-04 Ink and Switch
> a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data.
## Self Sovereign Identity (SSI)
* [Design Principles for the Personal Data Economy](https://medium.com/mydex/design-principles-for-the-personal-data-economy-f63ffa93e382) 2022-06-22 MyDex ([whitepaper](https://mydex.org/resources/papers/)
> A key part of this is continuity and longevity: a personal data store is for life, so the institutions providing personal data stores should be designed for decades (centuries, even). Whatever particular corporate form they take, legal safeguards relating to continuity and longevity of purpose need to be built into how they operate.
* [Self-sovereign identity: the future of personal data ownership?](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/self-sovereign-identity-future-personal-data-ownership) 2021-08 WEForum
> Self-sovereign identity is a promising technology to allow you to control your own data. However, to provide the true value of the technology, it is essential to establish governance framework for its operation.
* [The Anatomy Of Personal Data Sovereignty](https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2021/05/04/the-anatomy-of-personal-data-sovereignty/?sh=69dbea5761e1) 2021-05-04 Forbes
> The data privacy/control issue isn’t new, but the attitude shift is. People care more, demand more, and the scale of change that has occurred due to the Covid-19 pandemic is major. As we live through times exposing such injustice and inequality, it's becoming evident that this personal data ecosystem needs to undergo a major revamp.
* [Self Sovereign Identity Systems](https://yathartharora.substack.com/p/self-sovereign-identity-systems) 2021-04-09 The Passion Pad
> We should have the right to manage our identity, free of any country or the place where we live. By giving this right to the government or any central authority, we give them much more power. Separating data rights from the actual data is important. User should have the right to decide who should have the access to his/her data.
* [Part 4: Getting on the Right Data Diet with Verifiable Credentials](https://www.evernym.com/blog/right-data-diet-verifiable-credentials/) 2021-03-08 Evernym
> But there’s a difficult truth here. Much of the data is just plain wrong, wasteful, or at worst not compliant. We know this because businesses are spending boatloads of cash on fixing poor quality data and data compliance. And what’s the remedy? More data! More data sources, more attributes and profiles, more money. All fed by a new and increasingly sophisticated set of data APIs that are driving that growth.
* [Video] [Radical Exchange Talk: Data Agency. Individual or Shared?](https://identitywoman.net/radical-exchange-talk-data-agency-individual-or-shared/) 2021-03-05 IdentityWoman
> Digital networks have centralized power over identities and information, creating problems for both markets and democracy. Does the solution require more shared agency over data? What might that look like? This panel discussion is structured around thought experiments to find solutions to this issue.
* [Self-Sovereign Identity – A Possibility for More Data Control for Users](https://dataethics.eu/self-sovereign-identity-a-possibility-for-more-data-control-for-users/) 2020-06-18 DataEthics.eu
> But also, the general populations’ computer skills must be taken into account when designing the solution, along with legal considerations of whether individuals should be allowed to sell sensitive data, such as health data to third parties. If it is legal to monetize personal data, users can be tempted to share personal data in a way that might harm them later e.g. sharing health data and later being denied an insurance. Monetization might also create a gap in the society and the world, having rich people prioritize protecting their privacy while less fortunate citizens might feel like they have no other option than selling their data. Thoughts about the monetization of data need to be considered in a legal context as it has been done with the donation of blood, when creating a self-sovereign identity solution. Furthermore, safeguard measures must be made against discrimination like only providing identity for a selected few, and to ensure that everyone have equal access to creating a trustworthy digital identity.
## Development
* [International Semantic Infrastructure: Requirements for a distributed data economy](https://iiw.idcommons.net/21L/_International_Semantic_Infrastructure:_Requirements_for_a_distributed_data_economy) 2021-05-06 Paul Knowles
> Linking data together is about machine readability. Involved humans… need to understand. Do it through language. Humans like OCA because can understand data in different languages, makes sense for people. Human element. In that capture space. Want to refine OCA, take out some of the rules parts, masking overlay, conditional overlays, and get it away from OCA as architecture - it convolutes things. OCA only meant for making theings human-readable.
- [Decentralized Semantics 101](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cn-IiEewkFW9K9pneBWFP6xELzd2frfmIvQAoKH2OcY/edit)
- [Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IDXJ8QAq-jO87DQt500Rj2SXL0BMUo1_hEK1VDVZ8Ho/edit)
* [Hidden in Plain Sight — the Transformational Potential of Personal Data](https://medium.com/mydex/hidden-in-plain-sight-the-transformational-potential-of-personal-data-da47f666713e) 2021-04-12 MyDex
> Personal data stores apply the same economic logic to transform the costs of producing data driven services. [Verified attributes](https://medium.com/mydex/unleashing-the-potential-of-verified-attributes-fe001e01b091) are the digital equivalents of Henry Ford’s standardised parts. By enabling one organisation to instantly re-use data verified by another organisation they eliminate the need for vast amounts of duplicated effort and rework (re-creating each data point from scratch or checking its details, provenance etc).
* [Credential Marketplaces](https://iiw.idcommons.net/12K/_Credential_Marketplaces) 2021-05-06 Martin Riedel, Stepan Gershuni [Presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WOXgHhgAwG0Im45pZkTAhsadpd8xbck0xjlnsuVGGhI/edit?ts=60803bc8#slide=id.gd369c9df06_0_17)
> Credential Marketplace is quite high up the SSI stack but we want to start this discussion.
> 1. What is Credential Marketplace?
> 2. We have a Trust Triangle of Issuer-Holder-Verifier. This does not need any centralized entity except schema hosting.
> 3. However, we want to solve the problem of discovery of Issuers and Verifiers.
> 4. Example: I’m traveling to a new country. I need to get what healthcare VCs are needed to go there, in an automated way.
> 5. How can we solve this without relaying on a centralized registry of Verifier requirements and Issuer capabilities?
> 6. How it works
> 7. In order to discover issuers / vc types, there should be a registration step where issuers/verifiers actively OR passively provide metadata about their capabilities.
> 8. Credential Data — can contain some filters or constraints on the data from within the VC. E.g. As a Verifier, I only accept passport VC from only certain governments: only German nationals.
> 9. VC Metadata
> 10. Issuer Metadata
> 11. Reputation mechanism for credential issuers
> 12. Marketplace can also implement value transfer: paying for issuance by the verifier, for example. Even if they are part of different SSI ecosystems. This is optional but can help incentivize different participants.
## Caution
* [Why Location Data Brokers Put All Communities At Risk](https://me2ba.org/why-location-data-brokers-put-all-communities-at-risk/) 2022-06-06 Zach Edwards M2BA
> New work that may leverage decentralized ID from the supply chain side of things…but not sure (lots of links inside on data brokers harm)
* [What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not Sell Your Data?”](https://john.philpin.com/2021/09/03/what-does-it.html) 2021-09-03 John Philipin
> Probably because the alternatives produce even more income.
* [Data Mob Rule](https://www.moxytongue.com/2021/08/data-mob-rule.html) 2021-08 MoxyTongue
> Individual Rights are hard to come by historically. Strong people make them possible. First requirement of their existence is thus, strong people.
* [If your strategic plan is based on data, have you considered the consequences?](https://www.mydigitalfootprint.com/2021/04/if-your-strategic-plan-is-based-on-data.html) 2021-04 MyDigitalFootprint
> How do you know your data set has the views of everyone who is critical to your business today and in the future? How do you know the tools you use provide equal weight to everyone to make our business thrive?  How do you know if the recommendation was written before the analysis? How do your incentives create a new bias?
* [Envy Counting The Cost of Data Collection, And A New Paradigm Of ‘Identity Holder Present’](https://www.evernym.com/blog/identity-holder-present/) 2021-03-12 Evernym
> It all feels like data envy to me. Aristotle described envy as the pain at the sight of another’s good fortune, stirred by “those who have what we ought to have.” Precisely.
* [Why framing “data” as an asset or liability is dangerous](https://www.mydigitalfootprint.com/2021/03/why-framing-data-as-asset-or-liability.html) 2021-03 MyDigital Footprint
> If there is one thing that can change finance’s power and dominance as a decision-making tool, it is the rest of the [data](https://opengovernance.net/data-is-data-90ba0b803178). According to Google (2020), 3% of company data is finance data when considered part of an entire company’s data lake. McKinsey [reports](https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-companies-make-good-decisions-mckinsey-global-survey-results) that 90% of company decisions are based on finance data alone, the same 3% of data.
* [Dangerous Data: the role of data collection in genocides](https://www.theengineroom.org/dangerous-data-the-role-of-data-collection-in-genocides/) 2016-11-21 The Engine Room
> Last week, the UK Government passed what has been described by Jim Killock, director of the Open Rights Group, as the “most extreme mass surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”. The law, known officially as the Investigatory Powers Act, forces UK internet providers to store browsing histories — including domains visited — for one year, in case of police investigations. Unofficially, and in reference to its invasive powers, it has been nicknamed the Snooper’s Charter.
## Literature
* [INNOPAY paper on data sharing published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings](https://www.innopay.com/en/publications/innopay-paper-data-sharing-published-ceur-workshop-proceedings) 2022-09-15 Innopay
> This week, CEUR-WS.org has published the paper titled ‘[Harmonization Profiles for Trusted Data Sharing Between Data Spaces: Striking the Balance between Functionality and Complexity](http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3214/WS6Paper2.pdf)’ in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
* [BIS Annual Report - section III. The future monetary system](https://www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2022e3.pdf) 2022-06-16 BIS page 41 in the chart
> Point 5. User control over data—data governance arrangements should ensure users’ privacy and control over data:
>
> - Today: Users trust intermediaries to keep data safe, but they do not have sufficient control over their data
> - Crypto: Transactions are public on the blockchain—which will not work with “real names”
> - Tomorrow: New data architectures can give users privacy and control over their data
* [Case Studies] [Exploring principles for data stewardship](https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/project/exploring-principles-for-data-stewardship/) 2021-11 Ada Lovelace Institute
> What data practices enable the use of data for public or social good? To help answer this question, the Ada Lovelace Institute has developed a set of case studies. Based on Elinor Ostrom’s principles for governing the commons, these case studies can help us to understand what responsible data stewardship might look like.
* [What the Heck is a Data Mesh?!](https://cnr.sh/essays/what-the-heck-data-mesh) 2021-06-08 Chris Riccomini
> I re-read [Zhamak Dehghani](https://twitter.com/zhamakd) ’s [original](https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html) and [follow-on](https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-mesh-principles.html) posts. Zhamak is the creator of the data mesh. In her second post she identifies [four data mesh principles](https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-mesh-principles.html#CorePrinciplesAndLogicalArchitectureOfDataMesh):
>
> 1. Domain-oriented decentralized data ownership and architecture
> 2. Data as a product
> 3. Self-serve data infrastructure as a platform
> 4. Federated computational governance
* [Self-Sovereign Identity Personal Data Usage Licensing (SSI-PDUL) Model](https://hyperonomy.com/2021/01/27/self-sovereign-identity-personal-data-usage-licensing-ssi-pdul-model-solution-concept/) 2021-01-27 Michael Herman [Whitepaper](https://hyperonomy.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/hyperonomy-ssi-personal-data-usage-licensing-model-ssi-pdul-model-2021-0.27rd.pdf)
> The scope of the Self-Sovereign Identity Personal Data Usage Licensing (SSI-PDUL) Model is personal digital identifiers and any associated identity data presented by Alice to the App. It does not include the permissioning of data internal to the App (although the natural extension of the solution to internal data is an obvious one)
* [Tweet Thread] [discussing different approaches to data stewardship and potential principles](https://twitter.com/AdaLovelaceInst/status/1336954825356046339) 2020-12-10 Ada Lovelace Institute
> 1. We start by asking: what does doing good with data mean to you?
* [Doing good with data: what does good look like when it comes to data stewardship?](https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/what-does-good-look-like-data-stewardship/) 2020-09-03 Ada Lovelace Institute
* [Towards Workers' Data Collectives](https://www.thewhynotlab.com/post/towards-worker-data-collectives) 2020-11-07 The Why Not Lab
> I roll out my vision for the establishment of workers' collective data rights and ultimately for workers' data collectives. A means through which to empower workers and balance out the power asymmetry so prevalent in today's digital capitalism. I caution that fixing data and privacy rights is not an end in itself. We will need to draw a new map for the digital economy and society.
## Data Ecosystems
* [What’s in Your Data Ecosystem?](https://stateofidentity.libsyn.com/whats-in-your-data-ecosystem) 2021-12-09 State of Identity
> Indicio's CEO, Heather Dahl, and CTO, Ken Ebert, identity wallets, verified credentials, the role of the Sovrin Foundation, and new momentum around interoperability across decentralized identity.
* [Trusted Data Ecosystems: The Indicio Way](https://indicio.tech/trusted-data-ecosystems-the-indicio-way) 2021-09-16 Indicio
> This multidimensional value—authenticity, compliance, integrity, and resilience—coupled with being easy to integrate is what separates the Indicio approach from the rest. Our growth in 16 months—with global enterprise customers and a global decentralized blockchain network supported by 23 companies on five continents is a sign that fundamental change is coming in the way we share information.
* [How to unleash the full potential of data?](https://medium.com/mydex/how-to-unleash-the-full-potential-of-data-3676db8d7c03) 2021-05-02 Alan Mitchell
> The main reason why vital information is not getting where it needs to be is that our data economy has evolved to be an organisation-centric ‘One User One Use’ (OUOU) system — whereas, thanks to the inner logic of data itself, it needs to operate as a ‘Many Users, Many Uses’ (MUMU) data ecosystem.
* [6: Breaking Down Silos with Open Ecosystems and True Data Portability](https://www.evernym.com/blog/open-ecosystems-data-portability/) 2021-03-11 Evernym
> Every company providing a new digital identity solution believes that all the other digital identity options are not good enough, not secure enough, not fast enough. They believe they can do better.
>
> Yet collaboration will be critical to making digital identity work properly at scale.
## Data Institutions
* [The need for new Data Institutions](https://medium.com/mydex/the-need-for-new-data-institutions-e6b06cd0cbb8) 2022-05-30 Alan Mitchell
> we were presenting at the Open Data Institute’s event on Data Sharing and the [Rise of Data Institutions](https://theodi.org/article/what-are-data-institutions-and-why-are-they-important/) — a crucially important subject for the years ahead. (You can see the slides of our presentation [here](https://www.slideshare.net/davidejalexander/mydex-cic-odi-radical-data-institutions-20220330-alan-mitchellpdf).)
* [Helping Data Trusts Manage Personal Data](https://medium.com/mydex/helping-data-trusts-manage-personal-data-4215faaee5f2) 2022-05-03 Mydex
> Mydex CIC has just published a blog for Cambridge University’s Data Trust Initiative on ‘Helping Data Trusts Manage Personal Data’. In it, we address the challenges that arise as the Data Trust movement begins to scale.
## Organizations
* [Data Trusts Initiative](https://datatrusts.uk/)
> interdisciplinary programme that pursues research at the interface of technology, policy and the law to better understand the role data trusts can play
* [Data Futures Lab](https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/data-futures-lab/) Mozilla Foundation
> The Data Futures Lab is an experimental space for instigating new approaches to data stewardship challenges. It provides funding, scaffolding for collaboration, convening around emerging ideas, and a place to workshop approaches to data stewardship which give greater control and agency to people.
* [The Data Economy Lab](https://thedataeconomylab.com/)
> The Data Economy Lab is a dynamic space to think through legal, policy, governance, and technological issues on Data Stewardship
* [Japan-based Dixon Siu to join the Board of aNewGovernance AISBL](https://www.anewgovernance.org/2021/09/15/japan-based-dixon-siu-to-join-the-board-of-anewgovernance-aisbl/) 2021-09-15
> Given his breadth of experience and alignment with a number of strategic sectors where aNewGovernance is currently developing ecosystems, I am sure, he will bring incredible contribution.
## Companies
* [Europe’s top Data Portability Projects](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/meet-europes-top-data-portability-projects/) 2021-03-30 NGI
- [ALIAS](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/alias/) – automating GDPR portability for applications developers.
- [Checkpipe Charlie](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/checkpipe-charlie/) – tool for describing and validating data.
- [DIP](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/dip/) – Vaccination & Immunization Management using Verifiable Credentials.
- [Domi](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/domi/) – SSI-based digital passport to facilitate data portability in the housing rental sector.
- [DPella](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/dpella/) – Data analyses with privacy in mind.
- [IDADEV-P2P](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/idadev-p2p/) – Blockchain Based Data Portability System
- [OpenPKG](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/openpkg/) – decentralised data provenance system for improved governance and portability of personal data.
- [OpenXPort](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/openxport/) – Open export of data across different systems and providers.
- [ORATORIO](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/oratorio/) – Energy data exchange platform.
- [Prov4ITData](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/prov4itdata/) – Provenance-aware querying and generation for interoperable and transparent data transfer.
- [UI-Transfer](https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/ui-transfer/) – complete solution for “user initiated inter-controller and continuous data transfer”
* [PSA Today with Julian Ranger, founder of Digi.me](https://anchor.fm/psatoday/episodes/PSA-Today-37-Kaliya-and-Seth-talk-with-Julian-Ranger--Chairman--Founder-of-Digi-me-about-personal-data-governance-in-a-world-of-surveillance-capitalism-etpk24) 2021-03-29 PSA Today, Digi.Me
> Personal data governance (in a world of surveillance capitalism)
> Check out https://digi.me/ for more about Julian and his company and how they are going to market.

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title: Decentralization and Self Sovereign Identity
description: "Fixating on the degree—rather than the type—of decentralization is leading us astray"
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Decentralization is a commonly misunderstood concept. For example, it is sometimes said that the reason cryptonetwork advocates favor decentralization is to resist government censorship, or because of libertarian political views. These are not the main reasons decentralization is important.
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## Explainer
* [The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question](https://www.wired.com/story/web3-blockchain-decentralization-governance/) 2022-05-22 Wired
> Fixating on the degree—rather than the type—of decentralization is leading us astray
* [Decentralization is the Future of Digitization](http://web.archive.org/web/20230209030957/https://jolocom.io/blog/decentralization-is-the-future-of-digitization/) 2022-05-29 Jolocom
> In Germany, for example, the federal government initially decided to store data from the nation’s Corona-Warn app on centralized servers, [as reported by Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-tech/germany-flips-on-smartphone-contact-tracing-backs-apple-and-google-idUSKCN22807J) in April 2020. In response, multiple stakeholders like the [Chaos Computer Club (CCC)](https://netzpolitik.org/2020/ccc-warnt-bundesregierung-vor-zentralistischer-corona-app-covid19-contact-tracing-pepppt-dp3t/) loudly criticized the plans and the resulting public outcry forced the government to reconsider. The fact that the government heard the criticisms, re-evaluated its proposals and opted for a decentralized version of its Corona app instead – one  where data will only be stored on users’ phones instead of centralized government servers – was [news](https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/corona-app-launch-100.html) well received by large parts of society.
* [Why decentralization matters](https://cdixon.org/2018/02/18/why-decentralization-matters) 2018-02-18 CDixon
> Decentralization is a commonly misunderstood concept. For example, it is sometimes said that the reason cryptonetwork advocates favor decentralization is to resist government censorship, or because of libertarian political views. These are not the main reasons decentralization is important.
* [EIC2022] [Decentralization Is Like the Analog World](https://www.kuppingercole.com/events/eic2022/blog/decentralization-is-like-the-analog-world) 2022-04-07 Kuppinger Cole
> Decentralized identity is an incredibly flexible technology that solves fundamental problems in the way we manage digital communication. But this capacity to do more than one thing at once can be a source of confusion.
* [Decentralized Systems Don't Care](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/07/decentralized_systems_dont_care.shtml) 2022-07 Phil Windley
> I like to remind my students that decentralized systems don't care what they (or anyone else thinks). The paradox is that they care very much what everyone thinks. We call that coherence and it's what makes decentralized systems maddeningly frustrating to understand, architect, and maintain.
## Self Sovereign Identity
* [How to Prevent SSI from Becoming Yet Another Platform? with Joachim Lohkamp of Jolocom](https://northernblock.io/how-to-prevent-ssi-from-becoming-yet-another-platform-with-joachim-lohkamp/) 2022-04-08
> One of the desired outcomes of using standards-driven open source code projects is to avoid vendor lock-in. If your digital identity is a public good, then you shouldn’t be locked in to one specific company. If a company goes out of business, I may lose my identity data. If I find a better alternative, I’m unable to port my identity. Therefore, interoperability is a vital aspect of being able to provide sovereignty to individuals but also to governments.
* [Decentralization may be key to protecting our digital identities](https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/06/decentralization-may-be-key-to-protecting-our-digital-identities/) 2021-11-06 VentureBeat
> By introducing decentralization, there is an opportunity for dApp developers to uphold strong, secure data privacy protections for users across the board.  By offering strong privacy defaults and more user-centric options, decentralized data solutions will enable individuals to make informed decisions about their data.
* [We need to talk about Self Sovereign Identity](https://medium.com/coinmonks/we-need-to-talk-about-self-sovereign-identity-2f741eda2591) 2021-10-01 Olaf van Wijk
> When we talk about SSI in relationship to the decentralization movement where bitcoin was the frontrunner, we talk about it in a similar manner as the original promise of nuclear energy. In this case not an abundance of cheap energy but the notion of self-control at the level the bitcoin ledger operates. But how would that look like?
## Organization
* [The Handbook of Handbooks for Decentralised Organising](https://hackmd.io/@yHk1snI9T9SNpiFu2o17oA/Skh_dXNbE?type=view) 2023-01-05 Richard Dennis Bartlett
> a mega list of handbooks and toolkits for groups working without top-down management from social movements to workplaces open source for anyone to read, update, share
* [The Center Will Not Hold: How Decentralization is Reshaping Technology and Governance](https://thedefiant.io/decentralization-upends-governance) 2022-07-19 The Defiant
> In this summary paper, we will explain the different components of decentralization, the benefits of decentralized systems, examples of how different projects have approached the process of decentralizing, and good-faith critiques of decentralization. This paper will act as a TL;DR summarizing the concept of decentralization within its current usage, while providing linked resources throughout for those interested in digging deeper into specific areas.
## Literature
* [A Unified Theory of Decentralization](https://medium.com/swlh/a-unified-theory-of-decentralization-151d6f39e38?sk=b2a71917dcb5ce948196887c7ff48fde) 2020-07-31 David Huseby
> It is common to [hear people say that “decentralized” describes what a distributed system is](https://medium.com/@jaygraber/decentralized-social-networks-e5a7a2603f53) [not](https://medium.com/@jaygraber/decentralized-social-networks-e5a7a2603f53) [instead of what it is](https://medium.com/@jaygraber/decentralized-social-networks-e5a7a2603f53). However, when using the word “decentralized” they typically mean something more than just the organization of the network. To them it implies a partitioning of the services, governance, and overall power structure to prevent any one entity, or user, from controlling others in the system. It then follows that a fully decentralized system — among many other things — atomizes the power structure to the smallest possible unit and distributes it out to the edges where it is under direct user control.
>
> Before setting out on solving the authentic data solution for global scale I wanted to best understand the problem of decentralization and then declare the principles that I bound myself while solving it. There was very little discussion other than some clarifications on what I mean by "absolute" privacy by default and how that may make users reluctant to use any software like that.
* [Session Notes] [The Principles of User Sovereignty and A Unified Theory of Decentralization](https://iiw.idcommons.net/2A/_The_Principles_of_User_Sovereignty_and_A_Unified_Theory_of_Decentralization) 2021-05-06 David Huseby
* [A Unified Theory of Decentralization](https://medium.com/swlh/a-unified-theory-of-decentralization-151d6f39e38?sk=b2a71917dcb5ce948196887c7ff48fde) by David Huseby
> Before setting out on solving the authentic data solution for global scale I wanted to best understand the problem of decentralization and then declare the principles that I bound myself while solving it. There was very little discussion other than some clarifications on what I mean by "absolute" privacy by default and how that may make users reluctant to use any software like that.

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But with challenges in the offing and platforms preparing to do battle, we must all support initiatives that support privacy and security, as well as the services that will bolster it. We must expect better and support the solutions that help us do better.
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## Explainer
* [What is Privacy?](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/03/what_is_privacy.shtml) 2022-03 Phil Windley
> The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) [defines four classes of privacy](https://iapp.org/resources/glossary/):
> - Bodily Privacy—The protection of a person's physical being and any invasion thereof. This includes practices like genetic testing, drug testing, or body cavity searches.
> - Communications Privacy—The protection of the means of correspondence, including postal mail, telephone conversations, electronic mail, and other forms of communication.
> - Information Privacy—The claim of individuals, groups, or organizations to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others.
> - Territorial Privacy—Placing limitations on the ability of others to intrude into an individual's environment. Environment can be more than just the home, including workplaces, vehicles, and public spaces. Intrusions of territorial privacy can include video surveillance or ID checks.
* [Top 5 Must Read Articles on Data Privacy](https://academy.affinidi.com/top-5-must-read-articles-on-data-privacy-342e95c9dcfc) 2022-04-18 Affinidi
> To help you get a good grasp of the data privacy concepts and what it means for you, we have put together some relevant articles that make for an interesting read. These articles are sure to give you a whole new perspective of data privacy.
* [Privacy, Authenticity, and Confidentiality](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/03/privacy_authenticity_and_confidentiality.shtml) 2022-03 Phil Windley
> Authenticity allows parties to a conversation to know to whom they are talking. Confidentiality ensures that the content of the conversation is protected from others. These three create a tradespace because you can't achieve all three at the same time.
* [Identity is evolving — but the battle for privacy has only just begun](https://blog.avast.com/identity-and-the-battle-for-privacy) 2022-03-10 Avast
> But with challenges in the offing and platforms preparing to do battle, we must all support initiatives that support privacy and security, as well as the services that will bolster it. We must expect better and support the solutions that help us do better. That’s the only way to create a future where privacy and security are at the core of our collective digital experiences.
* [The new age of privacy](https://werd.io/2021/the-new-age-of-privacy) 2021-01-06 Ben Werdmuller
> Privacy is a human right. Surveillance has a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association, which we consider to be fundamental tenets of democracy. Sure, you can make a bunch of money by learning everything you can about an individual and selling access to their attention. But not everything that is profitable should be permissible.
* [How the cookie poisoned the Web](https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2021/05/14/poison/) 2021-05-14 Doc Searls
> Have you wondered why you have no more privacy on the Web than what other parties grant you ([which is none at all](https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-your-privacy-hands-others-alone-you-dont-have-any)), and that you can only opt in or out of choices that others provide—while the only controls you have over your privacy are to skulk around like a criminal (thank you, [Edward Snowden and Russell Brand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jxdwIkFdj8), for that analogy) or to stay offline completely?
* [the personalization privacy paradox](https://marketoonist.com/2021/07/zeropartydata.html) 2021-05-25
> ![](https://marketoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/210726.thirdpartydata.jpg)
> “Zero party data is that which a customer intentionally and proactively shares with a brand. It can include preference center data, purchase intentions, personal context, and how the individual wants the brand to recognize her.”
## Self Sovereign Identity
* [Decentralized Digital Identity: Shaping the Future of Privacy](https://v3.opennodes.com/2021-06-24-08-33-27-decentralized-digital-identity-shaping-the-future-of-privacy) 2021-04-24 Open Nodes
> In May, [Tribe](http://www.tribex.co/) held a Clubhouse session with the Dutch Blockchain Coalition (DBC), in partnership with the Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). Together with representatives from Affinidi, SITA, and Sphereon, the industry players shared their insights on how blockchain is being used to shape the future of privacy, and some practical applications of decentralized digital identity.
* [Self-Sovereign Identity - The Nash Equilibrium Point of the Personal Identity Information Game](https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/self-sovereign-identity-nash-equilibrium-point-personal-identity-information-game) 2021-05-07 ThoughtWorks
> "A silent war is ongoing between users and companies over the control of data."
> 1. Privacy or convenience is a question
> 2. SSI is the answer to this question
* [Verifiable credentials are key to the future of online privacy](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/07/26/verifiable-credentials/) 2021-07-26 Helpnet
> they offer a few advantages that we don’t get with paper records. Whereas a physical document (let’s say, a [vaccine card](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/06/15/vaccine-passports/)) can be forged and [passed off as authentic](https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004264531/fake-covid-vaccine-cards-keep-getting-sold-online-using-one-is-a-crime?t=1626423870877), the [security mechanisms](https://www.evernym.com/blog/the-three-pillars-of-self-sovereign-identity/) behind a verifiable credential means that it can never be tampered with and that anyone shown the credential will be able to immediately verify who issued it and to whom it was issued. 2021-06-08
* [Self Sovereign e-ID Schemes & Privacy Challenges](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vgNzSDn554) 2021-12-13 Crypto Valley Conference 2021
> Kurt Nielsen & Nagib Aouini from Partisia Blockchain
## Policy
* [UNDP LEGAL IDENTITY AGENDA ONLINE FORUM: PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLES: DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY](https://unstats.un.org/LEGAL-IDENTITY-AGENDA/MEETINGS/2021/UNLIA-FUTURETECH/DOCS/REPORT2.PDF) 2022-07-13 UNStats
> A second Private Sector Engagement Roundtable was held on February 10, 2022 building on the first roundtable held in May 2021. The forum drew 74 virtual participants. Hosted by the UN Legal Identity Agenda (LIA) Task Force1, the roundtable with members of UN entities and the private technology sector addressed, core questions about data protection and privacy, as well as policy issues concerning legal identity systems.
* [Letter to Attorney General Becerra Re: FinCen Proposed Rule Privacy concerns](https://blockadvocacy.medium.com/letter-to-attorney-general-becerra-re-fincen-proposed-rule-privacy-concerns-d6706694b8a9) 2021-02-23 Ally Medina BlockAdvocacy
> Our concerns with the consumer privacy implications of this proposed rule are twofold:
>
> First, the proposed rule’s requirement that MSB’s collect identifying information associated with wallet addresses will create reporting that extends well beyond the intent of the rule or the transaction.
## Business
* [The business of Privacy is Booming](https://www.axios.com/2021/11/09/privacy-business-booming-protonmail-you-search) 2021-11-09
> Investors and consumers show growing enthusiasm for privacy-focused alternatives to Google and Facebook amid renewed scrutiny over the real cost of their "free" services.
* [The Rising Consumer Demand for Data Privacy and Autonomy](https://medium.com/sequoia-capital/the-rising-consumer-demand-for-data-privacy-and-autonomy-b8254bf3368e) 2021-11-19 Sequoia
> Increased supply of user-friendly private tech and increased demand for privacy have converged, creating a moment of unprecedented opportunity for founders with a vision for privacy-first online experiences.
## Development
* [Why Privacy by (Re)Design Better Defines Responsibility for Privacy](https://anonyome.com/2021/09/why-privacy-by-redesign-better-defines-responsibility-for-privacy/) 2021-09 Anonyome
> Where privacy by design puts the onus on app developers to be proactive about data privacy, privacy by (re)design redesigns the “app ecosystem to address data sharing”, spreading the burden.
* [Can Consent Ever Play a Valuable Role in Consumer Privacy?](https://anonyome.com/2021/08/can-consent-ever-play-a-valuable-role-in-consumer-privacy/) 2021-08 Anonyme
> Can we rely on ‘informed consent’ if the informed part is largely missing?\
> Consent doesn’t scale well from the consumer’s perspective.
* [Reciprocal Negotiated Accountability](https://www.windley.com/archives/2021/06/reciprocal_negotiated_accountability.shtml) 2021-06-21 Phil Windley
> The self-sovereign internet underscores a tension between those who desire perfect oversight of society and those who desire perfect privacy. In this post, I explore a method for conditional legibility of private communications.
* [Agency By Design (Privacy is not Enough)](https://iiw.idcommons.net/20B/_Agency_By_Design_(Privacy_is_not_Enough)) 2021-05-06 Adrian Gropper
> I’m not a fan of Privacy by Design.\
> In the industry are only concerned about compliance, very rarely talk about Human Agency\
> Privacy by Default is the opposite in some sense to privacy by design\
> The problem is that It conflict with community in many cases. (e.g. social credit score)\
> Cultural differences (EU accepts better centralization than US)\
> Delegation and agency are one the same thing\
> Agency is a much bigger thing and delegation is a mechanism that supports it\
> I want my fiduciaries to know as much as possible of me (e.g. my doctor, my lawyer) \
> Model Agency as hierarchy and delegation is the mean to have it.
* [Understand the ORGANS Framework Before Building Privacy-Preserving Apps](https://academy.affinidi.com/understand-the-organs-framework-before-building-privacy-preserving-apps-cfc00e00a90c) 2022-08-23 Affinidi
> - O -> Open Standards
> - R -> Revocable by individuals
> - G -> Granular
> - A -> Auditable
> - N -> Notice to all parties involved
> - S -> Secure
* [Data Privacy: does anyone care?](https://blog.meeco.me/data-privacy-does-anyone-care/) 2021-09-15 Meeco
> The compelling data and research suggest that my original question now needs to be reframed. People most certainly do care about their data privacy. The question now is: how are organisations going to bridge this data privacy chasm?
* [Provisional Authenticity and Functional Privacy](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/03/provisional_authenticity_and_functional_privacy.shtml) 2022-03 Phil Windley
> Provisional authenticity and confidentiality can help us manage the trade offs between privacy and authenticity to support online accountability along with functional privacy.
## Application
* [Use Sudo Platform’ Decentralized Identity Capabilities to Rapidly Deliver Customer Privacy Solutions](https://anonyome.com/2022/04/how-your-business-can-rapidly-deliver-customer-privacy-solutions-with-the-sudo-platform-a-5-part-series%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04 Anonyme
> In this 5-part series, we’ll look at how enterprises can rapidly deliver customer privacy solutions with the Sudo Platform digital identities and decentralized identity capabilities.
* [Revoke](https://revoke.com/personal/how-it-works/)
> Revoke allows you to send requests to retrieve and/or delete your data.
> - Each company has 30 days to respond under the GDPR.
> - Revoke gives you full visibility and control of what to do with that information.
> - Easy to use app helps you discover who hold yours personal information.
* [Exposed documents reveal how the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm](https://restofworld.org/2022/documents-reputation-laundering-firm-eliminalia/) 2022-02 Rest of World
> Reputation firms like Eliminalia use legal threats and copyright notices to have material taken down around the world.
>
> From the we can’t talk about ourselves without ®’s camp
## Privacy Violations
* [Privacy Harms](https://teachprivacy.com/privacy-harms/) 2021-02-09 Daniel Solove Teach Privacy
> This article makes two central contributions. The first is the construction of a road map for courts to understand harm so that privacy violations can be tackled and remedied in a meaningful way.
* [John Oliver on Surveillance Capitalism](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/04/john_oliver_on_surveillance_capitalism.shtml) 2022-04 Phil Windley
> In researching this story, we realized that there is any number of perfectly legal bits of f—kery that we could engage in. We could, for example, use data brokers to go phishing for members of congress, by creating a demographic group consisting of men, age 45 and up, in a 5-mile radius of the U.S. Capitol, who had previously visited sites regarding or searched for terms including divorce, massage, hair loss and mid-life crisis.
* [Google Sued for Misleading Users Over Location Data Privacy](https://anonyome.com/2022/03/google-sued-for-misleading-users-over-location-data-privacy/) 2022-03 Anonyme
> “Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access. The truth is that contrary to Google’s representations it continues to systematically surveil customers and profit from customer data.”
* [Report] [Me2BA Product Testing Spotlight Report Published: Data Sharing in Primary & Secondary School Mobile Apps](https://me2ba.org/me2ba-product-testing-spotlight-report-published-data-sharing-in-primary-secondary-school-mobile-apps-2/) 2021-05-04 Me2Ba
> 60% of School Apps are Sending Student Data to Potentially High-risk Third Parties Without Knowledge or Consent According to New Research from Me2B Alliance
* [Someone could be tracking you through your headphones](https://nrkbeta.no/2021/09/02/someone-could-be-tracking-you-through-your-headphones/) 2021-09-02 NRK Beta
> - At least 9149 products with Bluetooth transmitters were uniquely recognized at least 24 hours apart.
> - At least 129 headphones could be tracked in the dataset for longer than 24 hours.
> - Popular headphones models from Bose, Bang & Olufsen, Jabra, Sennheiser and JBL can be tracked over longer periods of time.
* [Links Between Privacy and Disinformation: Julia Angwin](https://anonyome.com/2021/07/the-links-between-privacy-and-disinformation-julia-angwin/) 2021-07
> Privacy, as we know, is a complex topic. When it converges with technology, it becomes more complicated.  One aspect of this complexity is where privacy fits in with disinformation—false or misleading information spread intentionally to confuse or manipulate people.
* [Literature] [Privacy Risks With Opioid Recovery Apps](https://www.expressvpn.com/digital-security-lab/opioid-telehealth-research) 2021-07-07 ExpressVPN
> Perhaps the most alarming revelation from our study of ten opioid addiction treatment and recovery apps is the consistent access of unique identifiers, given the sensitivity of privacy around health and substance use issues.

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# Decentralization
* [The Center Will Not Hold: How Decentralization is Reshaping Technology and Governance](https://thedefiant.io/decentralization-upends-governance) 2022-07-19 The Defiant
> In this summary paper, we will explain the different components of decentralization, the benefits of decentralized systems, examples of how different projects have approached the process of decentralizing, and good-faith critiques of decentralization. This paper will act as a TL;DR summarizing the concept of decentralization within its current usage, while providing linked resources throughout for those interested in digging deeper into specific areas.
* [The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question](https://www.wired.com/story/web3-blockchain-decentralization-governance/) 2022-05-22 Wired
> Fixating on the degree—rather than the type—of decentralization is leading us astray
* [We need to talk about Self Sovereign Identity](https://medium.com/coinmonks/we-need-to-talk-about-self-sovereign-identity-2f741eda2591) Olaf van Wijk
When we talk about SSI in relationship to the decentralization movement where bitcoin was the frontrunner, we talk about it in a similar manner as the original promise of nuclear energy. In this case not an abundance of cheap energy but the notion of self-control at the level the bitcoin ledger operates. But how would that look like?
* [Does the W3C Still Believe in Tim Berners-Lee’s Vision of Decentralization?](https://www.evernym.com/blog/w3c-vision-of-decentralization/) Evernym
- The W3C is facing a critical decision about the future of the Web.
- Last month, Google, Apple, and Mozilla lodged formal objections to W3C approval of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) 1.0 specification.
- Upon close inspection, their four objections all reflect deep misunderstandings of DID architecture.
- So why did these particular three vendors object—when over 10 times that number of W3C members voted in favor of approval?
- In the end, this may come to a full democratic vote of all 431 W3C member companies—a referendum on how much decentralization really matters to the Web.
- To learn more about what’s at stake, [register for our November 3rd webinar](https://www.evernym.com/blog/w3c-vision-of-decentralization/#webinar).
* [Decentralization may be key to protecting our digital identities](https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/06/decentralization-may-be-key-to-protecting-our-digital-identities/) VentureBeat 2021-11-06
By introducing decentralization, there is an opportunity for dApp developers to uphold strong, secure data privacy protections for users across the board.  By offering strong privacy defaults and more user-centric options, decentralized data solutions will enable individuals to make informed decisions about their data.
* [Why decentralization matters](https://cdixon.org/2018/02/18/why-decentralization-matters) CDixon 2018-02-18
Decentralization is a commonly misunderstood concept. For example, it is sometimes said that the reason cryptonetwork advocates favor decentralization is to resist government censorship, or because of libertarian political views. These are not the main reasons decentralization is important.
* [A Unified Theory of Decentralization | by 𝔡𝔴𝔥 - The Startup](https://medium.com/swlh/a-unified-theory-of-decentralization-151d6f39e38?sk=b2a71917dcb5ce948196887c7ff48fde)
It is common to [hear people say that “decentralized” describes what a distributed system is](https://medium.com/@jaygraber/decentralized-social-networks-e5a7a2603f53) [not](https://medium.com/@jaygraber/decentralized-social-networks-e5a7a2603f53) [instead of what it is](https://medium.com/@jaygraber/decentralized-social-networks-e5a7a2603f53). However, when using the word “decentralized” they typically mean something more than just the organization of the network. To them it implies a partitioning of the services, governance, and overall power structure to prevent any one entity, or user, from controlling others in the system. It then follows that a fully decentralized system — among many other things — atomizes the power structure to the smallest possible unit and distributes it out to the edges where it is under direct user control.
Before setting out on solving the authentic data solution for global scale I wanted to best understand the problem of decentralization and then declare the principles that I bound myself while solving it. There was very little discussion other than some clarifications on what I mean by "absolute" privacy by default and how that may make users reluctant to use any software like that.
* [The Principles of User Sovereignty and A Unified Theory of Decentralization](https://iiw.idcommons.net/2A/_The_Principles_of_User_Sovereignty_and_A_Unified_Theory_of_Decentralization) by David Huseby
his was a reprise of my sessions from April, 2020 to set the table for follow on sessions about the authentic data economy. I wrote two articles about these topics a year ago:
* [A Unified Theory of Decentralization](https://medium.com/swlh/a-unified-theory-of-decentralization-151d6f39e38?sk=b2a71917dcb5ce948196887c7ff48fde) by David Huseby
> Before setting out on solving the authentic data solution for global scale I wanted to best understand the problem of decentralization and then declare the principles that I bound myself while solving it. There was very little discussion other than some clarifications on what I mean by "absolute" privacy by default and how that may make users reluctant to use any software like that.
* [Decentralization is the Future of Digitization](https://jolocom.io/blog/decentralization-is-the-future-of-digitization/) Jolocom
In Germany, for example, the federal government initially decided to store data from the nation’s Corona-Warn app on centralized servers, [as reported by Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-tech/germany-flips-on-smartphone-contact-tracing-backs-apple-and-google-idUSKCN22807J) in April 2020. In response, multiple stakeholders like the [Chaos Computer Club (CCC)](https://netzpolitik.org/2020/ccc-warnt-bundesregierung-vor-zentralistischer-corona-app-covid19-contact-tracing-pepppt-dp3t/) loudly criticized the plans and the resulting public outcry forced the government to reconsider. The fact that the government heard the criticisms, re-evaluated its proposals and opted for a decentralized version of its Corona app instead – one  where data will only be stored on users’ phones instead of centralized government servers – was [news](https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/corona-app-launch-100.html) well received by large parts of society.
* [How to Prevent SSI from Becoming Yet Another Platform?](https://northernblock.io/how-to-prevent-ssi-from-becoming-yet-another-platform-with-joachim-lohkamp/) with Joachim Lohkamp of Jolocom
One of the desired outcomes of using standards-driven open source code projects is to avoid vendor lock-in. If your digital identity is a public good, then you shouldn’t be locked in to one specific company. If a company goes out of business, I may lose my identity data. If I find a better alternative, I’m unable to port my identity. Therefore, interoperability is a vital aspect of being able to provide sovereignty to individuals but also to governments.
* [Decentralization Is Like the Analog World](https://www.kuppingercole.com/events/eic2022/blog/decentralization-is-like-the-analog-world) Kuppinger Cole
Decentralized identity is an incredibly flexible technology that solves fundamental problems in the way we manage digital communication. But this capacity to do more than one thing at once can be a source of confusion.
* [Juicy Telemetry](https://wider.team/2022/04/04/juicy-telemetry/) Wilder Team 2022-04-04
I was in a [Sovrin IoT](https://sovrin.org/) call when I heard the phrase “juicy telemetry.” A digital twins product leader was bemoaning all the really good data held back by the manufacturers of equipment. Data they needed to properly model their twins, to keep them current, to validate their assumptions. For good and bad reasons, the makers of wind turbines and cars and ship engines and weather sensors choose to hide data.
* [Decentralized Systems Don't Care](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/07/decentralized_systems_dont_care.shtml) Phil Windley
I like to remind my students that decentralized systems don't care what they (or anyone else thinks). The paradox is that they care very much what everyone thinks. We call that coherence and it's what makes decentralized systems maddeningly frustrating to understand, architect, and maintain.
* [The Handbook of Handbooks for Decentralised Organising](https://hackmd.io/@yHk1snI9T9SNpiFu2o17oA/Skh_dXNbE?type=view)
a mega list of handbooks and toolkits for groups working without top-down management from social movements to workplaces open source for anyone to read, update, share

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> interested users will be able to create a self-sovereign identity on the platform by following the steps on the [social.network](https://t.co/xRbWzSrZQf) landing page (h/t [@SelfSovID](https://twitter.com/SelfSovID)
* [How to Sign Users In with IndieAuth](https://aaronparecki.com/2021/04/13/26/indieauth) Aaron Parecki 2021-04-13
> IndieAuth is an extension of OAuth 2.0 that enables an individual website like someone's WordPress, Gitea or OwnCast instance to become its own identity provider. This means you can use your own website to sign in to other websites that support IndieAuth.
* [The latest in the DWeb: Jolocom’s breakthrough](https://jolocom.io/blog/sdi-breakthrough/)
At the last DWeb Meetup, we were invited to share our role in the German Government’s 60M Euro SDI (Secure Digital Identities) innovation project to bring “Self-Sovereign Identity” to German and EU citizens.
* [Credentials and HTTP-Sig authentication for Solid](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2021Feb/0029.html) Henry Story
> Here is an extended version of the HTTP-Signature document I put together today, bringing in ideas that have emerged thinking about this over the past 3 months