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

Thanks for Sharing the meeting Steve,

Dear Manu,
The irony did not escape us and in fact is the second very interesting event of this nature. The 4th King after a referendum asking the people if they would like democracy over a monarchy, democracy was rejected with more than 90% of the vote, still introduced democracy. So it is only fitting that his son the 5th king gave the people self-sovereign identities.

Bhutan is an amazing place and hopefully we will make it even better with the digital transformation with SSI, DID and privacy at the foundation of the transformation.

Best regards
Jacques von Benecke

Chief Technology Officer

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 6:18 AM <steve.e.magennis@gmail.com <mailto:steve.e.magennis@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 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.
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> From: Drummond Reed <Drummond.Reed@gendigital.com <mailto:Drummond.Reed@gendigital.com>> 
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 3:39 PM
> To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com <mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com>>; W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org <mailto:public-credentials@w3.org>>
> Cc: Jacques von Benecke <jacques@dhi.bt <mailto:jacques@dhi.bt>>
> Subject: Re: [EXT] Bhutanese Crown Prince is country’s first citizen with Decentralized Identifier
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> 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.
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> 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..pdf>, the ToIP Governance Architecture Specification <https://trustoverip.org/permalink/ToIP-Governance-Architecture-Specification-V1.0-2022-12-21.pdf>, and the ToIP Governance Metamodel Specification <https://trustoverip.org/permalink/ToIP-Governance-Metamodel-Specification-V1.0-2022-12-21.pdf>.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> H/T to Ganesh, who found this story:
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> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Froyalcentral.co.uk%2Fasia%2Fbhutanese-crown-prince-is-countrys-first-citizen-with-digital-identity-186659%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cdrummond.reed%40gendigital.com%7Cb020b4b651634f0a6bda08db15ef47e1%7C94986b1d466f4fc0ab4b5c725603deab%7C0%7C0%7C638127889673124461%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RVUXTHqkAOPPZU94ZuK2JaXaQh7%2FK4rRM%2B0Bav3BjV4%3D&reserved=0
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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.
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> Anyone have more information on how this came about?
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> -- manu
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