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Archives for June 2021

Special Topic IIW 1/2 Day Virtual Events – UX July 22nd and Business Aug 4th

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I’m super excited to announce that we have two different special topic IIWs coming up. If you interest or practice focuses on either of these we invite you to join us!!!

User-Experience and SSI is coming up Thursday July 22nd.

The Business of SSI is coming up Thursday August 4th.

From the EventBrite about the UX event

This IIW Special Topic event creates the space for User Experience Professionals, Product Managers, Interface Designers, and those in related roles working on decentralized identity or self-sovereign identity applications and tools to discuss, share and collaborate together.

We know there is a lot happening in the industry and we know that just as important to the success of the technology as the “tech stack” is the human experience while using applications built on it. This half day event is an opportunity for those focused on UX to dive deeply into this side of things.

From the EventBrite about the Business of SSI event

This IIW Spceial Topic event is for CEOs, Founders, Business Development leads, anyone who cares about the Business of SSI . It provides the space for you to discuss, share and collaborate together.

The Internet Identity Workshop has been bringing together innovators in the field of Identity focused around the individual since 2005. While open standards are essential to open digital identity systems, as important to getting adoption are viable business models and products that solve real world pain points for customers. This half day event is an opportunity for those focused the Business of SSI to dive deeply into this side of things.

Fake Students

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It became clear to me again today why we here in California need Verifiable Credentials. I teach in a CCC – a California Community College. This summer I have a class and right now is the “census deadline” to drop students who haven’t been attending class.

Below is the note we were sent regarding fraudulent student applications.

Dear Faculty teaching summer 2021 courses, Fraudulent CCC Apply applications may have impacted the enrollment of your class. If so, these would be “students” that you were likely preparing to DROP with Census for no show. It is even that much more important that you COMPLETE YOUR Census ON Time. If you are not sure if any student is from a fraudulent application, you can look at your student roster. If there is a student with no phone number listed, they may be fraudulent because this is one of the identifying markers with this statewide problem. If you have students like this that have not attended class, complete your census, and please email your class code and the student ID number to __@____.edu