PositiveBlockchain cases for Digital Identities
#identity #digital #certificate #birth #authentification
SOCIAL CHALLENGES
- 1,2 billion people who currently lack of document to prove they exist
- US identity theft victims lost $15.4 billion in 2014
- 82% online businesses report problems with fake users
- There are 3.8billion people online
- Only 71% of overal births are registered
- Only 46% of all children under 5 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa have their births registered
SOLUTIONS & USE CASES
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PROJECTS
- Aid:Tech: a platform delivering digital entitlements via blockchain technology and digital identity
- Uport: a Self-sovereign identity and user-centric data platform built on Ethereum: the keys to the digital world you’ve always wanted.
- ShoCard: a platform providing secure enterprise identity authentication management and single sign on (SSO) solutions for your business, all powered by the blockchain
- Deloitte’s Smart Identity: a next generation digital identity for individuals, organisations and IoT devices
- Onename: a Fuel Decentralized Identity Protocol, like Facebook Auth, built on the blockchain
- IDBox: a cost efficient device that enables people in developing countries to create a unique identity. The device is then used for voting remittance, energy trading, access to healthcare, etc.
- Abt Associates (project with Papua New Gunea): an MOU with the Central Bank of Papua New Guinea to pilot blockchain-based efforts to establish and confirm identify and improve financial inclusion in Papua New Guinea
- Civic: a blockchain identity-verification technology giving businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities
- VERFiD: a startup from Malta working on digital identity incubated at MITA in 2018
- EverID: a stealth-stage company working on user-centric, biometric, global identity solutions on the blockchain
- Kora Network: a blockchain-based infrastructure for inclusive financial systems. We connect people, communities, and capital
- Taqanu Bank: a globally accessible, secure and self-owned digital identity platform for refugees and people without an address
- Estoni’s e-Residency: a new digital nation for global citizens, powered by the Republic of Estonia, that gives the ability to establish and manage a trusted location-independent company entirely online
- Amply.Tech: a digital protocol that uses the power of information to amplify the social and economic impacts of services delivered through decentralised networks, and provides every child with their own self-sovereign digital identity based on the blockchain. This will enable children to receive benefits and services that they might have previously been excluded from.
- BanQu: a FinTech company focusing on economic identities and extreme poverty
- Chronicled: a blockchain technology for the secure exchange of physical assets, especially working on supply chains, brand protection and anti-counterfeiting
NETWORKS & ORGA
- WIN: a netwok that explores blockchain technology’s potential to provide secure, safe forms of identification for the 2 billion people who lack such documentation
- ID2020 Alliance: a global partnership committed to improving lives through digital identity, bringing together governments, NGOs, UN agencies and the private sector
- Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
- W3C Credentials Community group
EXPERTS & SPEAKERS
- Balázs Némethi, CEO @Taqanu, Berlin
- Alex Simons, Director of Program Management @Microsoft Identity Division
- Ankur Patel, Principal Program Manager @Microsoft Identity Division
- Adam Gunther, Director, Blockchain Trusted Identity @IBM
- Daniel Buchner Head of Decentralized Identity @Microsoft
LINKS & RESOURCES
EVENTS
- KNOW Identity 2018, March 26-28, 2018, Washington
- Digital Identity Summit 2018, May 14-15, 2018, Paris
- Digital Identity Summit 2018, September 12-14, 2018, Los Angeles
- IDnext 2018, March 28-29, 2018, Utrecht
- Blockchaingers Global Digital Identity Deep Dive, February 14, 2018, The Hague
- Identity & KYC Summit Europe, March 1-2, 2018, London
- IDM Europe, 20th September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands