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Decentralized Identity

At its most basic, decentralized Identity is about giving the control of your data back to you with a digital identity. Usually your data (sometimes called attributes, identifiers, and credentials, for example your birth date) are stored in a centralized location If you make an account on a company website, the data is likely stored by the company. You don’t hold your information and therefore you have less control over it.

Guide
Guide
Decentralized Identity – a Playbook for Your Enterprise
Where is the blockchain? Looking beyond the blockchain hype with Decentralized Identity. Gain a differentiated understanding of the potential of Decentralized Identity for your organization.
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Tools Choice
Tools Choice
Providers of Verified Identity
Evaluate the perfect provider of verified identity for your enterprise. Examine the entire market segment and get in-depth analysis of products and services. Make a well-informed decision based on...
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Blog
Blog
Decentralizing Identity for the Digital Era
Every day the world is becoming more digital, which means we increasingly need an effective, trusted, and convenient way to prove our identity as we interact with digital services from...
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Leadership Compass
Leadership Compass
Providers of Verified Identity 2022
This Leadership Compass provides an overview up-to-date insights on the leaders in innovation, product features, and market reach for full-services Providers of Verified Identity. These vendors...
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Frontier Talk
Frontier Talk
Bringing User-Centricity to Decentralized Identity | Frontier Talk #6 - Nat Sakimura
Raj Hegde sits with identity veteran, Nat Sakimura - Chairman of OpenID Foundation to understand how user-centric learnings from existing authentication protocols can be applied to future identity...
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Building the Future of Identity | Frontier Talk #4 - Doc Searls
Frontier Talk
Building the Future of Identity | Frontier Talk #4 - Doc Searls
"Progress is the process by which the miraculous becomes mundane.” says Doc Searls, the next guest on our popular podcast series - Frontier Talk. In this episode, Raj Hegde sits down with...
EIC Speaker Spotlight: Michele Nati on Decentralized Identity
Blog
EIC Speaker Spotlight: Michele Nati on Decentralized Identity
Michele Nati, Head of Telco and Infrastructure Development at the IOTA Foundation, will participate in panels on Decentralized Identity and Self-Sovereign Identity at the European Identity and...
Blueprint for a Digital Health Pass
Blog
Blueprint for a Digital Health Pass
The Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint was released mid-June to help shape the development of a cohesive but decentralized method of issuing, holding, and verifying the results of a COVID...
Decentralizing Provenance in an Industry 4.0 World | Frontier Talk #3 - Dr. Carsten Stöcker
Frontier Talk
Decentralizing Provenance in an Industry 4.0 World | Frontier Talk #3 - Dr. Carsten Stöcker
In this episode, Raj Hegde sits down with Dr. Carsten Stöcker, Founder & CEO of Spherity to understand how #decentralized identity is transforming the end-to-end supply chain lifecycle....
Decentralized Biometrics and Next-Generation Authentication | Frontier Talk #2 - Frances Zelazny
Frontier Talk
Decentralized Biometrics and Next-Generation Authentication | Frontier Talk #2 - Frances Zelazny
Raj Hegde sits down with Frances Zelazny, Co-founder & CEO of Anonybit, to understand the novel concept of decentralized biometrics. Tune in to this exciting episode for a deep dive on...
Azure AD Verifiable Credentials Entering Public Preview
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Azure AD Verifiable Credentials Entering Public Preview
Microsoft announced on April 5, 2020 that its Azure AD Verifiable Credentials is now in public preview. This solution enables organizations to design and issue verifiable credentials to their...
Decentralizing Mobility, Coopetition and Platforms | Frontier Talk #1 - Dr. Harry Behrens
Frontier Talk
Decentralizing Mobility, Coopetition and Platforms | Frontier Talk #1 - Dr. Harry Behrens
Raj Hegde sits down with Dr. Harry Behrens, Head of Blockchain Factory at Daimler Mobility, to discuss how decentralization is transforming the fragmented mobility industry. Tune in to this...
COVID Response and Decentralized Identity Solutions/Verifiable Credentials
Analyst Chat
COVID Response and Decentralized Identity Solutions/Verifiable Credentials
Anne Bailey and Matthias Reinwarth discuss how decentralized identities and verifiable credentials help respond to the pandemic by powering contact tracing applications, immunity passports and...
Anne Bailey: Reimagining Identity: a Buyer’s Guide to Decentralized Identity
Event Recording
Anne Bailey: Reimagining Identity: a Buyer’s Guide to Decentralized Identity
Blockchain is a reaction to real security and privacy concerns.  Whether or not you choose to adopt any blockchain solution, these concerns do exist and should be addressed in the way...
Prof. Dr. David Chadwick: COVID-19 Certificates for Everyone
Event Recording
Prof. Dr. David Chadwick: COVID-19 Certificates for Everyone
Working with the NHS, we are connecting our verifiable credentials infrastructure to its COVID-19 tests database so that we will be able to issue COVID-19 verifiable credentials to people in...
Interview with Dr. Andre Kudra
Event Recording
Interview with Dr. Andre Kudra
Markus Sabadello: U.S. Permanent Resident Cards with SSI
Event Recording
Markus Sabadello: U.S. Permanent Resident Cards with SSI
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has supported Self-Sovereign Identity technologies such as Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials for several years. Now,...