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# Future of Digital Identity
* [Bullish Case for Self-Sovereign Identity](https://sgershuni.medium.com/bullish-case-for-self-sovereign-identity-c2c26857f0ab) 
  > How is SSI technology creating a trillion dollar market?

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* [The way towards self-sovereign identity](https://innovalor.nl/en/Blogs/self-sovereign-identity) Ines Duits
  > This series of blogs focus on self-sovereign identity, SSI. This post explains where SSI originated from by giving a timeline of how digital identity has changed over the years. [In the second blog](https://innovalor.nl/en/Blogs/what-is-self-sovereign-identity), we focus on what SSI is exactly. In the third blog, give two examples of use cases (IRMA and Sovrin) where SSI plays an important role.
* [Inventories, Not Identities: Why multisigs are the future of online accounts](https://blog.gnosis.pm/inventories-not-identities-7da9a4ec5a3e)
  > Embracing more than the normative individual as a fundamental unit of account, such a paradigm could better serve the creation of resilient, accountable, and mutualistic institutions leading into the twenty-first century.
* [Can the Digital Future Be Our Home?](https://www.windley.com/archives/2021/05/can_the_digital_future_be_our_home.shtml) Windley
  > This post features three fantastic books from three great, but quite different, authors on the subject of Big Tech, surveillance capitalism, and what's to be done about it.
* [Authentic Digital Relationships](https://www.windley.com/archives/2020/08/authentic_digital_relationships.shtml) Windley
  > Self-sovereign identity, supported by a heterarchical identity metasystem, creates a firm foundation for rich digital relationships that allow people to be digitally embodied so they can act online as autonomous 
* [The Future of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3Dmx58bYHFrFk)
  > We were joined by Drummond Reed and Alex Preukschat, co-authors of Manning Publication's new book 'Self-Sovereign Identity,' for a conversation on the book's development and recent release and what the future holds for SSI as a technology, architecture, and movement.
* [Personal Identity and the Future of Digital Interactions](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/blog/posts/2021/personal-identity-future-digital-interactions.html) Ping Identity
  > What if individuals could determine how to share data and with whom? What if that data was always up to date? And what if instead of merely having a unified customer profile in a single company, each person could have one identity experience for all the companies and people they interact with?
* [The Digital Supply Chain of the Future](https://medium.com/transmute-techtalk/the-digital-supply-chain-of-the-future-79e9431aaa0d) Nis Jespersen Transmute

There is no limit to what a DID can identify. The obvious examples are organizations and people, as explained above. They can also represent assets such as shipping containers, seals, boxes, vessels, or locations, and intangible concepts like bookings, agreements, transactions, or documents.
* [the most important questions](https://werd.io/2021/one-of-the-most-important-questions-turns) Ben Werdmuller

what is the future you want to build?

Is it one where everyone has equal access to knowledge and opportunities? Where everyone can have a good life regardless of background?

Or is it something else?

* [GiD Report#181 — The future will be self sovereign](https://medium.com/global-id/gid-report-181-the-future-will-be-self-sovereign-d0218fff9989)

Just as the World Wide Web empowered people to connect and share knowledge and information, the rise of Bitcoin taught us that we could have direct ownership over our valuable assets and payments — no middle man or central operator necessary.
* [The Future Now Problem](https://www.continuumloop.com/the-future-now-problem/) Continuum Loop

When the idea of what is available right NOW is blurred among the ideas of the FUTURE, you can’t differentiate between what is feasible TODAY from what is not ready for prime time.
* [The Future: Proving your Identity](https://gdprnow.fireside.fm/30) GDPR Now
  > we talk about the future of credential management – Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) also known as decentralised identity. SSI is an efficient, secure and privacy enhancing solution for identity verification. It puts individuals at the centre of the verification process and is the future of identity management.

* [The Future of Authenticating Your Data](https://www.reality2cast.com/61) with Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Dave Huseby
  > Across time and space immediately being tracked and, and falling victim to what I call sort of casual surveillance or corporate surveillance, right? Where is your data flows through systems; businesses are able to observe that movement of your data, your information aggregated, develop some kind of psychological model and then able to sell that to people who wish to manipulate you, sell you things, that kind of stuff

* [Panel at Radical Exchange on Future Digital Identity](https://identitywoman.net/panel-at-rxc-digital-identity-a-look-ahead/)
    > Hosted by Kaliya Young this panel included Paula Burman form Democracy Earth and Supriyo Roy from Idena talking about the their different digital identity systems that are very future looking. 
* [Future 2030: Self Sovereign Identity Explained](https://www.coindesk.com/self-sovereign-identity-reshape-internet)
A comprehensive Article on CoinDesk about the future and what SSI looks like in that future. Kaliya interviewed for it.
* [Three Scenarios for Rolling Back Surveillance Capitalism](https://reb00ted.org/tech/20201009-three-scenarios-rolling-back-surveillance-captialism/).
* [Next Stop: A Global Verification Network](https://trbouma.medium.com/next-stop-global-verification-network-69f14a6673ab) Tim Bouma
  > The hardest part ahead is not the technology, it’s the wholesale re-conceptualization of what is required for a global verification network that puts the power of the network back into the endpoints that is you and me.
* [Four Future Scenarios about Identity & Access in 2040](https://esatus.com/wp-content/uploads/Broschuere_eng_final.html). We talk about Total Surveillance, Mega Corporations, Identity Chaos & Self-Sovereign Identity 2.0.
  > After a look into the past and present, we now fast-forward to the year 2040, where we meet Julia and accompany her through her everyday life. In four different IAM future scenarios, which can be viewed separately, we will understand how life under total surveillance feels for Julia. In times where identity chaos prevails, we can see what it means when Julia can no longer be sure about her digital identity, with only her physical identity being certain. In a world dominated by mega corporations Julia‘s experiences with her employer show us the far-reaching significance and influence such corporations have gained in relation to IAM. Finally, we experience how Julia is able to regain her informational self-determination thanks to her identity wallet - Self-Sovereign Identity 2.0.
* [The Future of Work & Skills – a human-centric skills data space](https://mydata.org/skillsdata) MyData
* [Whitepaper](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QPbc1mwVUj7Tttb4MA9VMRT-bJgjqwqI/view)
> In order to improve the competitiveness of EU’s workforce, the strategy identifies a need for high-quality data for qualifications, learning opportunities, jobs and skill sets of people.
* [The Future of Identity. A collection of interconnected research](https://borgbraincrypto.medium.com/the-future-of-identity-eee42109efd2)
* [Scaling the personal data economy, MyData 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNTuuOAZ1Uc)
  > using Futures Thinking to envision how different business strategies, policies and actions implemented in the personal data ecosystem can pave the path towards the Desirable Future.
* [Towards Self-Sovereign Identity with Tykn Co-Founders, Khalid Maliki and Jimmy J.P. Snoek](https://open.spotify.com/episode/37WCJ39VocsCKrgBEK3doO) Ubisecure LTADI
  > The conversation details the 'three pillars of SSI' (verifiable credentials, decentralised identifiers and blockchain), how SSI fits with existing processes, what it should appear as to end users (and what level of education they need around the technology), the importance of accessibility for inclusivity, and what's next for Tykn. "In 5 years, people should take [SSI] for granted" Khalid Maliki
* [5 identity priorities for 2021—strengthening security for the hybrid work era and beyond](https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/01/28/5-identity-priorities-for-2021-strengthening-security-for-the-hybrid-work-era-and-beyond/) Microsoft
  > In this paradigm, individuals can verify a credential with an ID verification partner once, then add it to Microsoft Authenticator (and other compatible wallets) and use it everywhere in a trustworthy manner.
* ['When you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck'](https://datasovereigntynow.org/2021/01/18/when-you-invent-the-ship-you-invent-the-shipwreck/) Katryna Dow, founder and CEO of Meeco [VIDEO]
  > Katryna believes that it is vital for the future of the internet that people and organisations obtain control of their data. This concept is called ‘data sovereignty’, but achieving that means rethinking the digital infrastructure the current internet is built upon. She calls for a soft infrastructure that consists of agreements between public and private-sector parties about the access to data.

* [Okta CEO: Here’s where cloud identity management is headed](https://www.csoonline.com/article/3607350/okta-ceo-here-s-where-cloud-identity-management-is-headed.html) CSO
  > CSO: Do you have an opinion on self-sovereign identity?McKinnon: I do. I think that it’s the future. We’ve got to get it done. The problem is: How does it get bootstrapped? How does it get useful in enough places so that enough people use it to make it useful? Where is it going to come from?

* [The Past, Present and Future of Identity](https://www.thinkdigitalpartners.com/guest-blog/2021/02/15/the-past-present-and-future-of-identity/)
  > Susan Morrow, considers the ‘digital identity journey’ to date and the important opportunity for the government to make use of the lessons learned when creating tomorrows digital identity ecosystem.
* [The Future of Identity: Self-Sovereignity, Digital Wallets, and Blockchain](https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Self-Sovereign-Identity-The-Future-of-Identity-Self-Sovereignity-Digital-Wallets-and-Blockchain.html) InterAmerican Development Bank
  > enables sovereignty for individuals over their digital assets and credentials -such as digital passports, digital diplomas, digital property titles, and tokenized currencies such as dollar, euro, pound, or pesos- using digital wallets that can take the form of a mobile app. Secondly, when the subject of these digital assets and credentials presents them to a third party to prove ownership, the third party does not need to reach out to the issuer to verify them, as they can go against a public, decentralized, and immutable registry, such as a blockchain network, where the cryptographic proofs of the asset or credential were registered and are maintained by the issuer in an standardized and trustable way.