Health Credentials, Travel, Climate Change, Financial Inclusion & More: Digital Identity Gets Real
summary
Argues that privacy-preserving, portable proof of identity is practical today using Hyperledger Indy and Aries plus DID and W3C verifiable credential specs, Trust over IP governance, and distributed ledgers as trust registries. Describes working pilots: Bonify (20,000 credentials issued), Germany’s IDunion, Kiva in Sierra Leone, and a dynamic work-credentials demo that completes background checks and health-screening in minutes. Claims selective disclosure and wallet-based workflows reduce paperwork and tracking while enabling cross-border vaccine checks via the Good Health Pass approach.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 8:09What is Digital Identity
- 12:15Selective Disclosure
- 12:39Sharing Data
- 15:00Ecosystem
- 16:45Challenges
- 23:19Demo
- 28:18Future use cases
- 32:15What does control over data mean
- 33:19Building blocks of digital identity
- 35:10Trust Over IP
- 39:37Good Health Pass Collaborative
- 41:05Hyperledger
- 41:38Credentials
- 42:14Bonify
- 44:05Kiva
- 45:19British Columbia
- 46:17COVID Credentials
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