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2019-03-09 The Sovrin Foundation The Sovrin Foundation is a private-sector, international non-profit that was established to govern the world's first self-sovereign identity (SSI) network. The Sovrin Foundation is a private-sector, international non-profit that was established to govern the world's first self-sovereign identity (SSI) network. single true false
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Indy
Verifiable Organizations Network
Sovrin Foundation
Aalto
Absa
Amihan
ARTiFACTS
Attinad
ATB
BIG
BakerHostetler
Cisco
Certisign
Crypto Valley Association
CULedger
Danube Tech
Desert Financial
Datum
DigiCert
Digital Bazaar
Estatus
Evernym
Vimsa
Finicity
First Education CU
IBM
InfoCert
iRespond
KYC-Chain
lab10 collective
OAS Staff FCU
Perkins Cole
ProSapien
Qiy Foundation
Royal CU
SICPA
SITA
Spark NZ
Swisscom
T-Labs
TNO
Truu
TwinPeek
Tykn
Veridium
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
GDPR
Trust Framework
MyData
Sovrin Foundation
DKMS
Humanitarian
2020-11-19

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Ecosystem

Literature

  • Library - Sovrin
    • Distributed ledger identification systems in the humanitarian sector By Aiden Slavin August 2019

      Commissioned by the I4A Council and the Sovrin Foundation, this report examines identification management systems in the humanitarian sector that use distributed ledger technology (DLT).

    • How DIDs, Keys, Credentials, and Agents Work in Sovrin By Daniel Hardman April 2018

      This document shows how low-level building blocks of the Sovrin ecosystem function in a practical real-world scenario where key management concerns matter deeply. It also introduces some notation and terminology. It makes heavy use of concepts described in the formal sequence diagrams and exposition from DKMS Design and Architecture V2.

    • Inevitable Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity September 2016

      Why Sovrin represents the solution to identity challenges. This whitepaper explains why the Internet does not currently have an identity layer and how the emergence of distributed ledger technology (DLT) finally makes one possible.

    • Sovrin: Digital Identities in the Blockchain Era By Dmitry Khovratovich and Jason Law December 2016

      This is the original paper that describes the core ideas behind the Sovrin Network and how they implement self-sovereign identity at a global scale.

    • How Sovrin Works By Phillip J. Windley October 2016

      Sovrin is an open-source identity network built on distributed ledger technology. Sovrin is public and permissioned. Public means everyone can use it. Permissioned means that the network nodes that ensure consensus of transactions on the ledger are governed, in this case by the nonprofit Sovrin Foundation. Some illustrated practical examples of key Sovrin features in action.

    • Sovrin Network: What Goes on the Ledger? By Andrew Tobin

      A white paper from Evernym in cooperation with the Sovrin Foundation. An overview of what is on the Sovrin Network distributed ledger and why.September 2018

    • On Guardianship in Self-Sovereign Identity By Sovrin Guardianship Task Force November 2019

      This report explores why digital guardianship is a core principle in the Sovrin Governance Framework and a core feature of the Sovrin Network and other SSI architectures.

    • Sovrin: A Protocol and Token for Self-Sovereign Identity and Decentralized Trust

      A comprehensive, highly readable 40 page paper describing the complete Sovrin ecosystem, including the problems Sovrin is designed to solve; why it is designed to be a global public utility; how the overall architecture is designed for for resilience, privacy and scalability; the markets it is expected to impact.January 2018

    • What if I lose my phone? By Daniel Hardman

      What happens when my device is stolen? What happens if I forget my private key? What happens when my private keys are compromised or lost? This document will explore multiple scenarios when an identity holder loses control of their cloud agent through theft, hack or forgetfulness.March 2019

    • Sovrin Governance Framework (formerly the Sovrin Trust Framework)

      The constitution of the Sovrin Network—specifies the business, legal, and technical policies governing Sovrin as a global public utility.**The Sovrin Governance Framework V2 is now in public review—see this page.**The original Sovrin Provisional Trust Framework was published on 28 Jun 2017.

    • Getting Started with Sovrin

      A technical orientation guide using the Sovrin Command Line Interface.

    • Steward Agreement

      The current agreement in force between the Sovrin Foundation and the trusted organizations operating validator nodes on the Sovrin network.**The new Sovrin Steward Agreement is now in public review—see this page.**The current Sovrin Steward Agreement was published on 28 Jun 2017.

    • Sovrin Glossary

      Defines 254 terms used in self-sovereign identity infrastructure. This is the official glossary used by all documents in the Sovrin Governance Framework—it was most recently approved by the Sovrin Board of Trustees on 04 December 2019. Includes eight illustrated appendices (33 pages) that describe core terms in detail.

Phil Windley

EU General Data Protection Regulation Act

Research Papers

Reports

Sovrin Stewards

The Sovrin ledger is operated by Stewards, trusted organizations within the ecosystem who have agreed to abide by the requirements in the Sovrin Trust Framework and are responsible for operation the nodes that maintain the Sovrin distributed ledger.

Stewards also, as a group, accept or reject any changes to the ledger-specific portions of the Sovrin open source code by virtue of that role. They thus provide a counterbalance to the Sovrin architects who maintain the Indy code base.

Founding Stewards

Amihan Global Strategies

Our mission is to steer companies into the digital future. As a digital transformation partner, we utilize technology to help our customers seize opportunities and deliver new levels of customer engagement.

Attinad Software

We are leaders in providing consultation and implementation of Digital Solutions and the Transformation services for various verticals with a holistic approach. [...] We offer services ranging from Digital Strategy and Consulting to Design, Application development, Implementation, Maintenance and System Integration.

  • Sovrin Foundation names Attinad Software Founding Steward

    Attinad Software in 2015 was ranked number six on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2015, which ranks the top 50 fastest growing technology companies in the country. Attinad Software provides enterprises with emerging technology solutions like Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud, and IoT stack (SMACT).

ATB Financial

Today, more than 5,000 team members serve over 773,000 customers in 245 Alberta communities. Just like our clients, we're Albertans and we work beside them in their communities through a network of more than 300 locations across Alberta.

BakerHostetler

BakerHostetler, one of the nations largest law firms, represents clients around the globe.

Cisco

  • The Sovrin Foundation Names Cisco Founding Steward

    The Sovrin Foundation announced the addition of Cisco as a founding Steward. In that role, Cisco will operate and maintain a validator node tasked with ensuring the availability and integrity of the worlds first distributed ledger purpose-built for self-sovereign identity, which comprises the Sovrin Networks core.

Crypto Valley Association

We support and connect startups and established enterprises through policy recommendations, projects across verticals, initiating and enabling research, and organizing conferences, hackathons, and other industry events.

Datum

The Datum network allows anyone to store structured data securely in a decentralized way on a smart contract blockchain. The DAT smart token enables optional selling and buying of stored data while enforcing data usage rules as set by the data owner.

Desert Financial Credit Union

At Desert Financial, weve helped over 10,000 Arizona business leaders create a plan to grow their business and bank with ease; thats how you know youre in good company when you partner with us!

Digicert

in 2003, our founders started DigiCert with the belief that internet security could be human and easy.

  • DigiCert Joins the Sovrin Foundation as a Founding Steward

    “At DigiCert, we have spent nearly two decades as a public certificate authority, and recently for connected devices, refining our processes and improving industry standards for providing scalable encryption and authentication,” said DigiCert Chief Technology Officer Dan Timpson.

Digital Bazaar

We pioneer payment, identity, and credential technologies that will power the next generation Web. We have been heavily involved in Web standards for over a decade, participate in cutting edge research and development, and contribute to the open source community.

  • Founding Steward and Technical Governance Board

    Digital Bazaar is a founding steward for the Sovrin Network and I use my knowledge of international standards and identity and blockchain technology to advise the foundation on their technical, operational, and security strategy.

Evernym

Evernym was founded in 2013 to solve the digital identity crisis. We envisioned a world where consumers are in complete control of their digital identity, where privacy is a basic human right, and where consumers and organizations can foster a new relationship rooted in trust.

  • Launching the Sovrin Network

    I'm grateful to everyone who has worked hard for this day. Thanks especially to Timothy Ruff, Jason Law, and everyone at Evernym for their dedication and hard work. Thanks to the Sovrin Trustees and Technical Governance Board. I'm also grateful to the founding stewards who have made this possible.

Finicity

our team set out to reimagine how technology could help people use their financial data. Our goal? To give people simple, accurate, and rapid insights so they can make better financial decisions.

InfoCert

Our solid institutional roots and strong focus on European regulatory compliance mean we can create a Digital Champion of Trust, able to serve customers with our local companies.

lab10 collective

Together we combine technology and beautiful interfaces to provide cutting-edge solutions to the global climate crisis. We utilize privacy by design principles for human data and open data principles for machine data accompanied by cryptography, open-source software and decentralized technologies to drive us towards our vision.

  • ARTIS: the genesis

    we have become founding member of the MyData movement, signed an agreement with the Sovrin foundation for becoming a Sovrin Steward (meaning: having the privilege to run a validator node for their PoA blockchain) and attended the recent Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View, California.

Perkins Cole

Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients success.

SICPA

Throughout its history, SICPA has dedicated itself to helping governments, central banks, high-security printers and industry find comprehensive solutions to widespread security issues.

SITA

Nearly every passenger flight relies on SITA technology. We work with our air transport owners and members to provide technology solutions that make a difference at a community level.

  • Sovrin Foundation names SITA a Founding Steward

    In its role as a Founding Steward, air transport technology provider SITA, will collaborate with the Sovrin Foundation and other Sovrin Stewards to create, operate and maintain the foundations decentralized digital identity network.

Spark New Zealand

Sparks success is dependent on customers in one key market: New Zealand. That's why we're passionate about using technology to be truly useful to our customers, helping make our country better and enriching the lives of all New Zealanders.

Swisscom Blockchain

We design, build, run, and host distributed ledger solutions for companies.

T-Labs

T-Labs is the R&D unit of Deutsche Telekom and is in a close partnership with the Technische Universität Berlin. At its sites in Berlin, Darmstadt, Beer Sheva, Budapest and Vienna, T-Labs sits amongst a world-class host of universities, startups, investors, research institutes and corporate innovation hubs to jointly shape the future of communication services.

Tykn

  • Tykn as new Founding Steward of Sovrins Trust Framework

    Tykn can proudly announce the position of Founding Steward in the Sovrin Network, worlds first self-sovereign identity (SSI) network. The Sovrin Foundation is a private-sector non-profit that works internationally in the realm of human digital governance by setting up a trust framework necessary to ensure the integrity of the network.

Veridium

Our continuous innovation is important to us. We have 50 patents granted and 69 more are pending across over 20 countries, for car access, wearables, UBA and more.

We support the following standards:

  • IEEE 2410 (2015, 2017, 2019)
  • IEEE2418-6
  • ISO SC 27/WG5
  • W3C Dencentralized Identifiers
  • W3C Verifiable Credentials

We have achieved the following certifications:

  • FIDO 2.0
  • FIPS 140-2
  • iBeta (including DEA)
  • Citrix Ready
  • RENIEC

Vimsa (was: European Business Process Institute)

Visma delivers software that simplifies and digitises core business processes in the private and public sector. With presence across the entire Nordic region along with Benelux, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America, we are one of Europes leading software companies.

Other Sovrin Stewards

Aalto University

Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We build a sustainable future by creating novel solutions to major global challenges. We value responsibility, courage, and collaboration.

Absa Group Limited

Our banks are in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (Absa Bank Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia. In addition, we have offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. We have an international presence in London, operating as Absa Securities UK, and a representative office in New York.

  • Newest Steward is the first African bank to join Sovrin Foundation

    Absa Group is one of Africas largest diversified financial services groups with presence in 12 countries on the continent and with more than 42,000 employees. It offers products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management and insurance.

ARTiFACTS

A huge amount of research is not accessible. There are no reliable ways of identifying the source or provenance of research outputs. ARTiFACTS enables researchers to create an immutable record of their outputs so they can be securely shared expanding access to vital information and accelerating discovery.

Best Innovation Group

Best Innovation Group, Inc is a technology innovation and development company catering to the financial industry. We invite you to join the hundreds of financial institutions that have already worked with our team of experts in designing technology solutions to fit their growing needs.

Certisign

Certisign is a pioneer and the largest Certification Authority in Brazil. For more than two decades, it has made it possible for services to be carried out online, providing companies with agility, cost reduction and sustainability and, consequently, giving people more time and money to do what really matters.

CULedger

In working through a national consortium made up of credit unions and trusted industry investors, CULedger has pioneered new developments related to global self-sovereign decentralized identity, MemberPassTM, that will further enhance the trust credit unions have with their members.

Danube Tech

Grown out of a background of Internet freedom activism and grassroots hacker culture, we continue to explore digital developments at the edge of important political and social questions. We contribute to ongoing discourse about anonymity vs. veronymity, centralization vs. decentralization, as well as sovereign and user-centric digital identity.

estatus AG

esatus AG is a medium-sized IT consulting company that was founded in 1999. The headquarter is located in Langen (Hessen). According to the companys mission “Enforcing Information Security”, we are the qualified, experienced and flexible partner for consulting projects around the topic of Information Security, in particular for Identity & Access Governance, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) and IT Security.

  • Self SSI

    SeLF allows you to integrate the Self-Sovereign Identity into your infrastructure without modifying your legacy IT-applications, directories or management systems. SSI credential-based access rules (CrBAC) transform the new technology into authentication and authorization objects that can be synchronized and used by conventional technologies like SAML or LDAP.

First Education Credit Union

Knowing the future starts today, we use our financial knowledge to educate and encourage our members to make smart, well-informed choices about their finances—and about their financial future, too!

IBM

  • Stweard Spotlight IBM

    IBM is among the worlds biggest contributors to open blockchain development and has a long history of research and innovation in emerging technologies. That is why it may come as no surprise that the company is among Sovrins Stewards.

iRespond

Our Story - Deployed in seven countries in SE Asia and Africa, iRespond is working with global NGOs, governmental agencies, and leading organizations in the Healthcare, Clinical Trials and Protection sectors to help bring the invisibles out of the shadows.

KYC Chain

KYC-Chain is a compliance dashboard and whitelabel customer on-boarding portal enabling companies to perform due diligence on their customers in accordance with CDD/AML/KYC requirements.

OAS Staff Federal Credit Union

We started in 1962 serving the employees of the Organization of American States (OAS). Over the years, we have grown to serve more than 6,500 members worldwide, and now hold over $218 million in assets. We have expanded our field of membership and now fulfill the financial needs of employees and members of more than 25 organizations, including the National Geographic Society, after a merge with their Credit Union in August 1, 2018.

ProSapien

ProSapien offers research and development services in a unique mix of advanced computational intelligence related technologies.

ProSapiens founder and principle engineer is Samuel M. Smith. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1991. He spent 10 years in academia at Florida Atlantic University, eventually reaching full professor status. He has over 100 refereed publications in the areas of automated reasoning, autonomous vehicles, and distributed systems as well as raising over $20 million in career sponsored research primarily in autonomous systems. His specialty is automated reasoning, reinforcement learning, computational intelligence, and distributed systems.

Qiy Foundation

The Qiy Scheme Rulebook consists of a set of documents concerning governance, legal and technical issues. The evolution of the rules is a dynamic and continuous process.

The Qiy Scheme is an open standard. Therefore we invite everyone to join the process of improving the rules and regulations.

  • DigitalMe offers Sovrin based services

    The combination of Qiy Trust Network (streaming data) and Sovrin Distributed Ledger (blockchain) brings trust in the relation between individuals and organisations in a secure and fast way.

Royal Credit Union

We are Royal Credit Union, a not-for-profit credit union committed to making a positive impact in the lives we touch. We've been providing financial solutions and trusted advice to our Members for more than 50 years.

The City of Osmio

Certification authorities, when built and managed properly, can bring security and trust to online spaces. The City of Osmio brings duly constituted public authority to the CA role.

TNO

TNO connects people and knowledge to create innovations that boost the sustainable competitive strength of industry and well-being of society. This is our mission and it is what drives us, the 2,600 professionals at TNO, in our work every day.

  • TNO APPROVED AS SOVRIN STEWARD CO-RESPONSIBILITY ON SIGNED ATTESTATIONS FOR SELF-SOVEREIGN IDENTITY AND DECENTRALIZED TRUST • 13 FEB 2018

    Being a Sovrin Steward includes the running of a Sovrin network node in the TNO Blockchain Lab, checking the integrity of the software running on that node, participating in the community governance process of Sovrin, as well as providing access to users.

Truu

Our approach will enable healthcare professionals to spend more time caring for patients. We will empower doctors and reduce the administrative burden for healthcare organisations.

  • Use case spotlight: Truu, using Sovrin to provide trusted digital identity for doctors

    They believe the best care is given when trust exists between two entities such as a patient and a healthcare professional; a physician and a hospital; or healthcare organizations. That trust is, in part, fostered by strict regulations; for example, doctors are required to be certified and accredited by multiple organizations. However, current regulatory mandates are upheld by repetitive, inefficient, and time consuming manual processes, creating large administrative burdens for over-stretched doctors and HR staff.

TwinPeek (dead?)

Outsource your business compliancy with EU Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by implementing a one-step privacy-by-design function into your website or mobile application and show goodwill in supporting privacy of your customers and gain more trust.