I’m excited to share that I have joined the Verifiable Community project led by Grace Rachmany.
This is a full circle moment for me, returning me to the roots of why I devoted 20 years of my life to the digital identity field. My passion has been in fostering the creation of distributed identity protocols that support people’s having control over the identifiers and share meaningful information about people, organizations, things, agents and really anything that can be pointed at with an identifier.
After 20 years of work, we have the baseline protocols. Now the question is how we will use them. I believe now is the time to dive in and work with others on developing real products for real people and communities.
I plan to contribute to efforts:
- Being spearheaded by governments to use the protocols in digital public infrastructure.
- By large consortium that steward global registries for products to leverage the technology in supply chains
- By organizations trying to support clarity in global trade and financial systems with entity identifiers for organizations.
However, having said all that, I began my career working to build distributed social networks for communities working on improving the world. This is my personal “why” I dedicated 20 years of my life to cultivating a community that could produce the protocols we now have.
When I learned more about Verifiable Community and Sideways.Earth and got to know the technical team, I was compelled to join them. I feel Sideways is on a trajectory to help make key aspects of the original Planetwork Augmented Social Network vision. This is the vision that is at the root my work for all these years.
Grace will be in Geneva this week on behalf of the project and I hope you get to meet her.
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