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    Blockchain and Identity
            Theatre 4 was the place to be at Identity Week Europe in Amsterdam earlier this month, when a series of presentations and panel discussions on decentralized identity and blockchain proved
        
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    24 Jun 2024
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    Revolutionizing the traveler experience
            Nick Price, who co-chairs DIF’s Travel & Hospitality SIG and Nick Lambert, CEO of DIF member Dock Labs explored the potential for decentralized identity to revolutionize the traveler experience
        
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    13 Jun 2024
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    Building Trust in AI through Decentralized Identity
            DIF's ED Kim Hamilton Duffy, Wayne Chang, CEO of SpruceID and Professor Linda Jeng, a lawyer, former financial regulator and founder of Digital Self Labs, took to the
        
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    5 Jun 2024
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    Les Miserables of the Cyber Frontier
            Digital identity pioneers Markus Sabadello and Nat Sakimura crossed swords on stage during an absorbing discussion at EIC in Berlin this evening.

Markus kicked off by asking why the internet
        
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    4 Jun 2024
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    Decentralized ID Technical Mastery Sprint @ EIC
            DIF’s ED Kim Hamilton Duffy and SC member Steve McCown delivered a Technical Mastery Sprint to a packed audience on the opening day of the 2024 European Identity and
        
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    4 Jun 2024
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    Interoperability in the spotlight
            Identity providers including Canadian Bank Note (CBN), Veridos (a joint venture between German security tech company Giesecke+Devrient and federal technology company Bundesdruckerei) and Thales shared digital and mobile identity
        
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    22 May 2024
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    ID4Africa 2024 AGM kicks off
            DIF SC members and staff are among 2000+ participants from 101 countries participating in the ID4Africa 2024 AGM in South Africa.

Almost half of the delegates present at the event
        
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    21 May 2024
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    Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as an Identifier Metasystem
            Authors: Zaïda Rivai (Danube Tech), Kim Duffy (DIF)

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), offer an often overlooked benefit: they function as an identifier metasystem, enabling future-proofing and interoperability across diverse identity systems.
        
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    15 May 2024
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    An Overview of the DIF Identifiers & Discovery Working Group
            By Markus Sabadello

I would like to take this opportunity to write a few words about the Identifiers & Discovery Working Group at the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), which is
        
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    13 May 2024
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    Bridging the Gap: OpenID and DIDComm
            Join the Decentralized Identity Foundation community call on 27 May at 09:00 PDT / 12:00 EDT /  18:00 CEST to learn how organizations can leverage the combined capabilities of
        
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    10 May 2024
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    Guest blog: Cole Davis
            Switchchord provides tools for songwriters to document ownership of their creations and connect with music publishers who administer their copyrights. The company is bringing sophisticated digital identity and legal technology
        
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    30 Apr 2024
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    Introducing DIDComm 2.0
            DIDComm — or Decentralized Identifier Communication — provides a method for creating a direct, secure line of communication between the owners of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). 

In this article, we provide an overview
        
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    30 Apr 2024
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    Welcoming Ankur Banerjee to the Helm of DIF TSC
            The past year at the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) has been a period of remarkable progress. We have made significant strides in advancing the interests of the decentralized identity community,
        
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    29 Apr 2024
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    Presentation Exchange v2.1: Working Group Approval
            We are excited to announce that Presentation Exchange v2.1 has reached a significant milestone and is now under review for Working Group Approval. This update marks a critical step
        
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    12 Apr 2024
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    DIF and KuppingerCole announce collaboration
            The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and KuppingerCole are excited to announce a collaboration aimed at bringing new value to members, customers and digital transformation leaders.

DIF is a global membership
        
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    2 Apr 2024
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    Effective governance now with DIF Credential Trust Establishment
            In the digital identity space, the Trust Establishment (TE) and Credential Trust Establishment (CTE) specifications play crucial roles in defining how trust is established and managed. CTE, in particular, is
        
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    27 Mar 2024
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    DIF's work on Interoperability Profiles
            The challenge 

Interoperability is a basic requirement for secure identity management and seamless communication between identity systems and services.

However, in a world of multiple digital identity standards and protocols,
        
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    20 Mar 2024
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    Guest blog: David Birch
            David Birch is a keynote speaker, a published author on digital money and digital identity, fintech columnist, social media commentator and an international advisor on digital financial services. A recognised
        
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    1 Mar 2024
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