Technologist (CEng). Digital innovator, consultant, and researcher spanning Web3, AI, and identity. Driven to bring people and technology together beautifully.
If the modern ‘problem of identity’ was how to construct an identity and keep it solid and stable, the postmodern ‘problem of identity’ is primarily how to avoid fixation and keep the options open. (Bauman 2011)
The innovations created in the name of SSI need not deliver the dystopia their SSI form promises.
Covering systems thinking and context, agency, hard borders, trust, trust triangles, and governance.
Phil Windley claims that a technology stack consisting of self-sovereign identity (SSI) and related technologies has all the qualities of generativity.
Nefarious bots are at the crux of fake news. Sybil attacks frustrate pseudonymous democratic participation. Can we create proofs of humanness and uniqueness while preserving privacy and personal security?
SSI has distressing emergent outcomes — the antithesis of the hopes and plans of the SSI community and those attracted to SSI's real-world application. We have to reflect and rethink.
Are we our own worst enemy?
Sharing perspectives and insights towards a healthy web, naturally.
The paper falls far short in its appreciation for human-centred design, and this is quite typical of contemporary approaches to digital identity.
Discussion via matrix.org (because we love open and decentralized). You'll need a Matrix client such as Element.
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