Definitely Identity

An interview with co-founders of https://tykn.tech , a company dedicated to ensuring that identities are portable, private, and secure so that no one has to lose access to their identity ever again.

Tykn co-founder, Jimmy Snoek, is a musician, business developer, and entrepreneur, currently residing in The Hague. Tykn's other co-founder, Khalid Maliki, has keen product design knowledge combined with a passion for social impact. Both Jimmy and Khalid believe that believes Self-Sovereign Identity will positively impact billions of people’s lives.

In this podcast, we talk about self-sovereign identity, Tykn's platform called Ana, current projects underway, and what the future holds for digital identity, and more generally, digital credentials.

Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D., is the founder and owner of ProSapien LLC. ProSapien is a technology research and development company based in Lindon, Utah.

In this episode, we explore the Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI)and how it relates to decentralized identity. We also touch topics in the white paper: trust domains, self-certifying identifiers, architectural implications, and more.

You can find Sam's whitepapers at https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/tree/master/whitepapers

More material is available at https://identity.foundation/working-groups/identifiers-discovery.html

In this episode, I interview Keith Jansa, Executive Director of the CIO Strategy Council ( https://ciostrategycouncil.com/ ). As Executive director, Keith is leading several initiatives, including standards-setting related to digital identity.

We cover numerous topics, including the development of national standards, the role of the Standards Council of Canada ( https://www.scc.ca/ ), its technical committees, and, the development of CIOSC’s latest national standard on digital identity.

We also talked about the contribution of the Canadian Public Sector through work done on the Public Sector Profile of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework ( https://canada-ca.github.io/PCTF-CCP/)

In this episode, I interviewed Dakota Gruener, Executive Director of ID2020. We talked about the mission of ID2020, her recently published white paper on immunity certificates. We also talked about the more general issues on digital identity and trust frameworks.

Links:

ID2020 website: https://id2020.org/

Dakota’s white paper: Immunity Certificates: If We Must Have Them, We Must Do It Right, available at: https://ethics.harvard.edu/immunity-certificates

Pan-Canadian Trust Framework: https://canada-ca.github.io/PCTF-CCP/

A conversation with Amos Doornbos, Director of Strategy & Systems: Disaster Management at World Vision.

Amos spends much of his time trying to convince agencies that technology is the easy part and the real challenge is changing people’s behaviour and organisational processes and culture. We had a great conversation on the deeper issues of human rights, dignity and protection.

You can find more about Amos on his blog at: https://thisisamos.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/amosdoornbos

A conversation with Darrell O'Donnell on the state and potential of digital wallets. This episode is really Part 2 of my first episode with Darrell.

Darrell knows his stuff as you will see from the links below. Don't forget to download the digital wallet report (over 80 pages of valuable insights)

Digital Wallet Report: https://www.continuumloop.com/get-digital-wallet-report

Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrello

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrellodonnell/

CULedger: www.culedger.com

Continuum Loop (my company): www.continuumloop.com

A discussion with Dave Roberts about the latest release of the public sector profile of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework Version 1.1.

Over the years, Dave has been an instrumental contributor to the PCTF. We discuss the current version of the PCTF including the prior work that led up to what we have today.

You can find the latest version of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework on GitHub at: https://canada-ca.github.io/PCTF-CCP/

An interview with Natalie Smolenski. Natalie leads the sales of digital credentialing solutions at Hyland Software (https://www.hyland.com/), which recently acquired Learning Machine (https://www.learningmachine.com/).

In this episode, we discussed digital credentialing, decentralized systems and self-sovereign identity.

An interview with Aaron Shull who is the managing director and general counsel of the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI).

Aaron advises on a range of domestic legal and corporate matters and has substantive expertise in international law, global security and internet governance.

You can find Aaron's coordinates at: https://www.cigionline.org/person/aaron-shull

An interview with Emrys Schoemaker of Caribou Digital. We discussed the identity ecosystem of Kenya and the broader issues of digital identity systems.

You can find more details about Emrys at https://www.cariboudigital.net/advisor/emrys-schoemaker/

and on Twitter at

https://twitter.com/emrys_s