This article describes how governments of sovereign states might be involved in building identity ecosystems based on self-sovereign principles and how regulatory conformity of such ecosystems can be achieved. When it comes to identity management the involvement of the government can be a tricky topic. It needs to be involved…

The trust infrastructure is concerned with the question of how and why the presented information can be trusted. It defines the rules for all stakeholders and enables legally binding relationships with the combination of governance frameworks, which are built on top of trust frameworks. But before we dive deeper into…

This article takes the mental models of identity and explores how they can be achieved with a self-sovereign identity (SSI) solution. To pin down the meaning and definition of identity is a challenging task due to its uniquely human nature. It can have totally different meanings for different people. However…

This article highlights and describes five aspects, which are crucial for the adoption of self-sovereign identity (SSI). Every new technology, which aims to change the way we live requires certain aspects to be fulfilled. This article provides an overview of five critical requirements to achieve mass-adoption of SSI. …

This article explains the ethical situation societies face in the context of a transition from an organisational to a self-sovereign identity. Ethics is concerned with the study of morality and the application of reasons to elucidate specific rules & principles that determine right & wrong for a given situation. Morality…

This article aims to explain the current identity-management developments of our society on a meta-level and highlights the importance of self-sovereign identity. Status quo of online identity: A person’s online identity is split among a multitude of companies and organisations, which store the personal data of their users on centralised databases. But identity is more…

This blog-post aims to help the reader understand current developments regarding the adoption of self-sovereign identity solutions on a European level via ESSIF. EDIT (16.06.2020): This article originally referred to the framework as “eSSIF”, which has been adjusted to the official syntax. The European self-sovereign identity framework (ESSIF) is part…

This blog-post focuses on four different online identity scenarios while highlighting the importance of the adoption of self-sovereign identity solutions. It also provides the reader with an overview of the status-quo before diving deeper into the topic. The history of online identity. Where do we come from? In the early 2000’s companies increasingly offered their products and services online and…

This blog-post aims to explain what decentralized applications are and provide the reader with a better understanding of why dapps are developed and how you can access them. Dapp [Decentralized application]: An application that uses decentralized protocols for some or all aspects of its operation. Crucial parts of the program…