My concern, since digital identity was a hot topic around 2000 amongst national governments, is that identity fraud, forgery is, I think, the number one crime today, and registration, validation and verification are only as secure as the identity management technology deployed by the identity authority.
It was insecure in the year 2000, and it is insecure today. How to ensure the independence of validation of identity claims? I think there may be a role for blockchain here, for verification when identity detail change requests are processed. There is still the unresolved question of how to ensure all Identity Blockchain Group Members are trustable. My initial thoughts were that they really had to be at a federal or regional government level, though with todays state actors perpetrating cyber espionage, how do we set up a federation of trust across national borders. And please recognise that we require international collaboration to address the greatest challenge we have ever faced as a species, how to safely ratify carbon emissions reduction on a global basis. This is a topic that has come up today at COP27, the UN Conference of Parties to address climate change. Because currently every country's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting is inaccurate to a greater and lesser degree, either inadvertently or in some cases deliberate under reporting.
tCO2e metrics might well be another blockchain use case in the global annual reporting context, though not in the transactional sense.
I believe we have to think outside the boundaries of perceived national interest. The big challenges today are international - stopping war and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, or preferably earlier, as we are already on track for catastrophic inundation of coastal areas.
Best
Nya
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Nya Murray
Director
Trac-Car
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 07, 2022 09:51:28 AM
From: Alex Sharpe
Subject: Summary of the First Digital Identity Accreditations
This a nice article from Schellman mapping out the initial set of Digital Identity Accreditations. It will be interesting to see how things evolve. If history is any indication of future success, accreditations add a certain levell of credibility.
Understanding the First Digital Identity Accreditations
https://www.schellman.com/blog/understanding-the-first-digital-identity-accreditations?utm_content=221785449&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-10472234
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Alex Sharpe
Principal
Sharpe42
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Co-Chair Philosophy & Guiding Principles Working Group
Co-Chair Organizational Strategy & Governance Working Group
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