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The Future of You Podcast with Tracey Follows

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I was invited to discuss self-sovereign identity on Episode 7 of The Future of You Podcast with the host, Tracey Follows, and a fellow guest, Lucy Yang.

On this podcast, we discussed digital wallets, verifiable credentials, digital identity, anonymity and self-sovereignty.

  • Why digital identity is so important and how it differs from the physical realm
  • Tools currently in development to enable self-sovereign identities
  • Whether anonymity or pseudonymity is feasible while maintaining accountability
  • How digital wallets might evolve and consolidate across the public and private sector
  • The principles of physical identity that must carry over into a digital solution and the importance of Open Standards

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Media Mention: MIT Technology Review

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I was quoted in the article in MIT Technology Review on April 6, 2022, “Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users.”

Worldcoin, a startup built on a promise of a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income, is building a biometric database by collecting data from the financially disadvantaged in the developing nations, in exchange for cash incentives.

Below is the paragraph which I am quoted in, with regards to Worldcoin’s business.

Others remain unconvinced that Worldcoin can actually reach everyone in the world—and instead, serves as a distraction from ongoing work to create new identity paradigms. Identity expert Kaliya Young, while declining to comment on Worldcoin specifically, says that “it’s common for companies to claim that ‘if everyone in the world was in our system, everything would be fine.’ Newsflash: everybody is not going to be in your system, so let’s move on and talk about how we solve problems” in online identity.

You can read the entire article by following this link, https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/

Exploring Social Technologies for Democracy with Kaliya Young, Heidi Nobuntu Saul, Tom Atlee

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We see democracy as ideally a process of co-creating the conditions of our shared lives, solving our collective problems, and learning about life from and with each other.

Most of the social technologies for democracy we work with are grounded in conversation – discussion, dialogue, deliberation, choice-creating, negotiation, collective visioning, and various forms of council, assembly, conference, and so on.

Democratic technologies, thought of and used in this way, can be applied in creative new ways that enable people to become more engaged with each other, with better results and less wasted, counter-productive energy, thus moving towards more successful, enjoyable self-governance. They operate at a variety of scales from small groups, organizations, and networks to whole societies.

RxC Live Talk – September 2021

Techsequences Podcast: Self-Sovereign Identity

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I chatted with Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle of Techsequences about self-sovereign identity: what identity is and how we’ve lost control of our own identity in today’s world.

Click on the link below to listen.

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/?powerpress_pinw=252-podcast

“Who are you?”. Answering that may seem at once easy and yet incredibly complex.  In the real world, we are born with, gain or develop aspects of our identity.  But distinguishing who is who is a lot more complex online.  Multiple entities assign IDs and keep track of our activities. Identity models have evolved from the traditional or siloed model to the federated models.  The common denominator however is that you are not in control of your identity. Join us for a conversation with Kaliyah Young, expert in self-sovereign identity, on how we as individuals can gain control over what is uniquely ours: our identity.

Defining Self-Sovereign Identity: Coding Over Cocktails Podcast

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Are you in charge of your own digital identity? How do you share “verifiable” information about yourself on the internet?

Defining Self-Sovereign Identity with Kaliya Young: Coding Over Cocktails Podcast

I had the opportunity to discuss digital identity with Kevin Montalbo and David Brown, two co-hosts of the Coding Over Cocktails Podcast. The topics we covered were: the different domains of identity, how our identities are currently held and managed by corporations, civil society, and governments, and why we should advocate for the rights of our digital selves.

You can listen to the entire podcast and read the transcript of the show by clicking on the link below!

https://www.torocloud.com/podcast/digital-identities-kaliya-young

Also, you can watch the short “preview” of the show on YouTube.

Self-Sovereign Identity for the Decentralized Web Summit

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Introduction to Self-Sovereign Identity at the Decentralized Web Summit

I gave a presentation, “Introduction to Self-Sovereign Identity” at the Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco, California, on August 1, 2018. Self-Sovereign Identity helps individuals have control over their own identifier. This talk shares the origins of the work and how it works.

Self-Sovereign Identity at RightsCon

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I gave a talk, “Self-Sovereign Identity” at RightsCon in Tronto, Canada, on May 18, 2018.

Self-Sovereign Identity at RightsCon

Self-Sovereign Identity technology has enormous potential to empower individuals and address privacy challenges globally. It uses shared ledgers (blockchain) to give individuals the power to create and manage their own identifiers, collect verified claims and interact with others on the network on their terms.

Identity is Changing: The Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity Infrastructure using Blockchain

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I gave a presentation, “Identity is Changing: The Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity Infrastructure using Blockchain,” at InteroplTX on May 2, 2018.

Identity is Changing at InteroplTX

Identity can seem deceptively simple. We know who we are. Sometimes we have to convince others of that fact and confirm other characteristics: our age, our qualifications, or our right to access some services or tools. This happens every day over the Internet, but in ways that are disorganized, redundant, and risky. The lack of reliable, universal standards puts our private information at risk of public dissemination, fraud or worse.

A new set of standards is emerging that creates an infrastructure for self-sovereign identity that can scale. This talk looks forward to help you think ahead and prepare for this new infrastructure. We will walk through standards that together create a new identity infrastructure that leverages the blockchain. This isn’t about what you can implement tomorrow to solve your employee identity challenges or manage customer accounts. It will instead prepare you for the coming changes and help you play a role in shaping them.

My Identiverse: The Evolution of Digital Identity and Openness, Plenary Digital Identity and Embodied Practice

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I was asked to give this talk at the What is Universe? at the University of Oregon, (on their Portland Campus). I cover the history of the Internet Identity Workshop and talk about its core nature as a torus / bowl a feminine form and how this has resulted in the innovation of Self-Sovereign Identity.

Personal Data, My Value Six Sense Making Diagrams in the Rise of the Personal Information Economy Workshop

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This talk was presented at the 2016 Cloud Identity Summit. It was in the Rise of the Identity-enabled Personal Information Economy Track. It puts forward 6 Diagrams to make Sense of the overall Personal Data Ecosystem including What is Personal Data? What Happens to Personal Data? What are Market Models and how is it regulated?

Ethical Market Models in the Personal Data Ecosystem

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This is the presentation I gave at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing October 2015. It covers three main ethical market models that could support the emergence of a Personal Data Ecosystem centered on individuals and their personal clouds. The three models are Vendor Relationship Management, Infomediaries, and Data Aggregators. It highlights the need for Accountability Frameworks (also called Trust Frameworks) combinations of code and law/policy. This is contextualized in an overall Landscape picture where two other modes of governance also co-exist – Peer Governance and Identifier Governance.

Identification and Social Justice

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I, along with Bob Blakley, gave this talk as the closing keynote for the Cloud Identity Summit on July 19th, 2012 in Vail Colorado. It discusses a range of issues and options for identity in society. It postulates that social justice or fairness must be an underlying design feature of any system. It encourages people to get involved with the NSTIC process and the current steering committee being formed.

Nancy's 'very human' Presenation at MooseCamp

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Nancy White gave a great presentation about people and the interaction with the blogosphere at Moose Camp. Here are the notes that I took.
Roles in Network:
Filters
Amplifiers
Conveners
Facilitators
Investors
Community builders
Skills for learning with others:
Listen, Fliter (search, Tag, bookmark) annotate, blog
Be unkonwing
REciprocate
Facilitation for:
Relationshiop
Identity/REputation
presence
Flow
Facilitation skills:
the Classics
Informed by ICT
Space Holding
Improvisational
Creatively Abrasive (Leonard)
Shouting doesn’t work online the way it does face to face
Convening Conversations:
Invite
Name the Question
Initiate
Design for local choice
Nurture
Art of the Invitation critical compencay:
Intercultural antennae
Broadly defined
“default” culture
Heart variations
Biggest Challenge?
Intercultural skills:
look…read
live/work/play
Fala! (speak)
Bridge
Tolerance for Ambiguity:
OK with ‘not in control’, not knowing
Move forward without certainty.
Ability to switch contexts:
Multi-membership mavens
connectors
Networkers
multiple perspectives
Outsiderness
The struggle is the solution:
See the reality in the current situation
Grieve the cost for what exists now
Treat the conversation as action.
There are two ways of spreading the light:
To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.