Self-Sovereign Identity – or SSI in brief – is now a major thing. Germany has become one of the world’s key SSI accelerators. Countless people and organizations – small and large – are getting excited and actively involved. Now de facto driving forces are: 1. SSI Pilots by the German Federal Chancellery as first demonstrations of the Digital Identity Ecosystem. 2. IDunion – a solution-oriented research project co-funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy in the cluster of showcases in Secure Digital Identity. This presentation provides a brief SSI introduction and an update on these two major German SSI initiatives.
