Re: DIDs and VCs mentioned on US Capitol Hill Hearing

Congrats to Anil John and his team at DHS for having the foresight to fund
this work. Great to see Doug Maughan giving it visibility at the
Congressional level.

=Drummond

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identifiers were mentioned
> yesterday during the US Capitol Hearing on Leveraging Blockchain
> Technology to Improve Supply Chain Management:
>
> https://youtu.be/J7aCUM2RfJA?t=34m56s
>
> Good job everyone! The work we're doing here is a part of publicly
> recorded national dialogue now... :)
>
> Many thanks to DHS S&T for partially funding some of this work[1][2] and
> helping all of us spread the message on Capitol Hill and to US lawmakers.
>
> -- manu
>
> [1]https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/
> 2017/09/25/news-release-dhs-st-awards-750k-virginia-tech-company
>
> [2]https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/
> 2017/07/20/news-release-dhs-st-awards-749k-evernym-decentralized-key
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: Veres One Decentralized Identifier Blockchain Launches
> https://tinyurl.com/veres-one-launches
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 9 May 2018 18:44:00 UTC