Decentralized Identity & Digital Transformation II
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Do People Really Want to Be in Charge of Their Identity?

Combined Session
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 14:00—15:00
Location: Empore

Shared Ledger Technology is increasingly mature, but remains a relatively under-deployed technology in the digital identity space. The emergence of self-sovereign identity approaches, underpinned and powered by shared ledgers, offer new and exciting solutions to establishing digital identities.

As both technologies gain greater mainstream focus, will the combination of the two approaches unlock genuinely consumer-focused identity solution? Moving away from large centrally managed architectures, and giving consumers the power to store, manage and share their personal attributes at a time and manner entirely of their own choosing embodies the new data protection environment post-GDPR and addresses consumer concerns over the power of the big tech companies. It limits the need for centralised processing power and removed honey-pots for hackers. At a technical level the flexibility and immutability of the ledger enables individuals and enterprises to build trusted identities that rely less on formal proofs and easy to forge documents – important in the developed world, but absolutely game changing in the developing world.

The combination of Self-Sovereign and Shared Ledge provides new opportunities and a new vista for digital identity development. Our recent research both identifies the potential of the combined tech, the natural fit with the legislative landscape, and provides a clear view to the factors that will enable wider adoption.

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Do People Really Want to Be in Charge of Their Identity?
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Do People Really Want to Be in Charge of Their Identity?
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John Erik Setsaas
John Erik Setsaas
Signicat AS
John Erik Setsaas is VP of Identity and Innovation at Signicat. He is responsible for ensuring that Signicat’s digital identity services are at the forefront of innovation, whilst solving the...
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