RE: [EXT] Bhutanese Crown Prince is country's first citizen with Decentralized Identifier

Jacques von Benecke and Suprit Pradhan have graciously offered this project
to present at the Ecosystem Working Group community call March 16 @8a
Pacific. One and all are welcome to attend with Q&A at the end.

 

-S

 

 

 

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From: Drummond Reed <Drummond.Reed@gendigital.com> 
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 3:39 PM
To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>; W3C Credentials CG
<public-credentials@w3.org>
Cc: Jacques von Benecke <jacques@dhi.bt>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Bhutanese Crown Prince is country's first citizen with
Decentralized Identifier

 

Manu, the short story is that in mid-2021, the Bhutan National Digital
Identity (NDI) team got a hold of the SSI book
<https://www.manning.com/books/self-sovereign-identity>  I co-authored with
Alex Preukschat  (plus 54 contributing authors including many on this list).
They got in touch with Alex and I, and then retained the Evernym team to
help them guide them in building this over the past two years.

 

This spring the Bhutan Parliament should pass a National Digital Identity
Act I spent 6 months helping them draft - all based on the Principles of SSI
<https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ToIP-Principles-of-SSI.p
df> , the ToIP
<https://trustoverip.org/permalink/ToIP-Governance-Architecture-Specificatio
n-V1.0-2022-12-21.pdf>  Governance Architecture Specification, and the ToIP
Governance Metamodel
<https://trustoverip.org/permalink/ToIP-Governance-Metamodel-Specification-V
1.0-2022-12-21.pdf>  Specification.

 

They are very seriously committed to it, from the King of Bhutan on down.
And the NDI team they have assembled, led by their CTO Jacques von Benecke,
is amazing. As you put it perfectly, it is a textbook example of a sovereign
embracing self-sovereign identity.

 

=Drummond 

 

From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com
<mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com> >
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 2:42 PM
To: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org
<mailto:public-credentials@w3.org> >
Subject: [EXT] Bhutanese Crown Prince is country's first citizen with
Decentralized Identifier

H/T to Ganesh, who found this story:

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So, like 1) that's awesome, and 2) they're using Decentralized
Identifiers!?, and 3) I hope no one is missing the irony of an actual
sovereign using Self Sovereign Identity.

Anyone have more information on how this came about?

-- manu

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