About Episode - Progress is often slowed down because of binary thinking. This type of behaviour sometimes happens within the self-sovereign identity world: “Such protocol is good, such protocol is bad”; “Such community is good, such community is bad.”

During this conversation, we discuss:

• Digital Sovereignty - operating in the digital world (or metaverse), with an emphasis on Government’s role in the digital world.
• Why organizations such as Mozilla, Google, Apple recently objected to the W3C decentralized identifiers standards - does this go against the independence of people? Does it have to do with energy consumption of proof-of-work blockchains?
• Deciphering Interoperability - there's a need to focus more of the conversations around portability. Rouven provides some easy to understand examples.
• What’s happening in the DIF and what are some of the cross-community collaborations
• Overviewing Top-down and Bottom-up approaches - the differences in governance,  the importance of reputation, opening up portable reputations from siloed spaces.
• What to control and what not to? Where do I fit into a Decentralized ID ecosystem? Some examples of services offerings, including how financial institutions can create new value offerings.
• Verified vs Verifiable - why these two words are fundamentally different and how they sometimes wrongly used.

About Guest

Rouven Heck is the Identity Lead @ ConsenSys Mesh and the Executive Director @ Decentralized Identity Foundation

Prior to joining ConsenSys, Rouven had a number of positions at Deutsche Bank working as a Blockchain Expert, COO, Program Manager, and Service manager.

You can find Rouven on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rh7; and on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rouvenheck/.

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