October APAC CCG Series Reflections

Hello all,

Just a quick report out on the series of APAC CCG calls we have been
running throughout October.

We held a series of three interesting and well attended calls:

- Henry Hang presented on Turing Space's suite of products for credential
issuance and verification:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2025Oct/0017.html
- Anand Acharya provided an update to Bhutans National Digital Identity
program:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2025Oct/0029.html
- Rey Vea and Haemiwan Fathony discussed microcredentialing in education
from an Indonesian and Singaporean perspective:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2025Oct/0038.html

My sense from these talks was that they were only a small taste of the
adoption of and innovation with Verifiable Credentials in the Asia Pacific
region. Which is fantastic to see and hear about.

Many thanks to all those who presented to the community!

Unfortunately, the final call of the series which was intended as an open
discussion reflecting on next steps for APAC CCG calls was less successful
with only one attendee from California of all places.

So here are my own reflections:

- The call time on 12pm UTC worked seemed to work well, many presenters
voiced a preference for this evening time over a call time in the 9-5
working day.
- Having an APAC call every week is too regular, at least initially. Maybe
once a month would be more realistic and sustainable.
- There was not much continuity of participation across the series. It will
take time to build a core of participants like we have for the Tuesday
calls.
- Not many attendees were aware of the CCG or signed up to its mailing
list. I wonder what we could do to improve this?

In summary, I think there is a lot of potential to provide an open forum
for folks working on decentralized identity adjacent technologies to share
their work and explore avenues for collaboration. However, it will take
consistent commitment and effort to make this happen. Without someone
willing to champion this effort from the Asia Pacific region, I struggle to
see how this will happen.

At the moment, I do not anticipate planning further APAC CCG calls.

I welcome any feedback, thoughts or suggestions. Either reply to this email
or reach out to me directly.

I will also be at TPAC in Kobe, Japan in November and would be happy to
discuss this with you there.

Thanks,
Will Abramson