12 Use Cases for improving Trust on the Web using Open Government Data

Hi all,

 Thinking about decentralised secure social networks, I came
to think about how one could apply that one level up: instead
of foaf connected persons, one could think of connected companies
and institutions, linked to nations, which themselves could
form a Web of Nations of two-way foaf-like diplomatic links.
Researching this I found that a lot of the needed data was 
already available. 

It occurred to me recently, that it would help to put together
a list of use cases illustrating how it could affect our daily
interactions on the web.
So this weekend I wrote up 12 use cases:  

 1. Enhance Trust in Small Businesses
 2. Help Legitimate Institutions of Knowledge stand out
 3. Make Fake News sites stand out
 4. Stop Phishing attacks
 5. Stop GUI Confusion attacks
 6. Improve Trust in Apps
 7. Help Search Engines and Social Networks attribute content
 8. Cheaper EV X509 Certificates
 9. Anchor flexible Verifiable Credentials (age, licences, …)
10. Trusting Linked Data
11. Anchor Provenance (PROV)
12. Machine Readable GDPR Policies

The following blog post details in a couple of paragraphs each of 
these points with illustrations and links where helpful
https://medium.com/@bblfish/use-cases-for-the-web-of-nations-361c24d5eaee

I would be very grateful for feedback on these, problems
people may have with them (it is difficult to address unexpressed
problems) and even suggestions as to applications I may have missed.

Working from home,

Henry Story
https://co-operating.systems/

Received on Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:47:11 UTC