Next Generation Internet Initiative. An opportunity to fix the internet The EU is not an integrated territory if it has no agency over data of people, machines and processes. These are predominantly in the hands of commercial “over the top” non-EU players. Aggregated data leads to new combined services that generate and produce more data.…

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FEB2Sunday 2 February19:00 – 22:00Commons Hub BrusselsBruxelles, BruxellesRegistrationWelcome! To join the event, please register below. RegisterAbout Event​On Sunday February 2nd, the Disposable Identities community invites you to an open conversation about the future of Digital Identity. ​19.00 Doors ​19.15 – 20.45 Panel & open conversation ​Which direction we want to go?A top down approach building…

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We need Disposable Digital Identities for a more secure and resilient digital society Track: Digital Wallets and Verifiable CredentialsRoom: AW1.126Day: SundayStart: 10:00End: 10:30Video only: aw1126Chat: Join the conversation! This presentation and demo will focus on core ideas, challenges and developments in the area of Disposable Identities; a technical branch of Self Sovereign Identity. We discuss…

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Abstract: Many smart contract applications – or more precisely blockchain-based digital ledger technologies (DLTs) proliferate. And yet, without accounting for the identity dimension and the different authentication regimes, there is little chance that these technologies will gain widespread use, and their disruptive innovation potential will not be realized. A growing number of digital interactions in…

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We tie the Smart Cities concept to the On-Life human-centered vision. The need to provide citizen-focused empowering visions of smart cities planning and development is very much needed, especially when a post-COVID environment requires urban growth “resets” within stringent sustainability limits. Our selected case studies describe some of these current challenges. Two novel utopian visions…

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The classical tools and theories of the international political economy and diplomacy were the product of and well suited for the analogue world, where old strategies built on resource scarcity and ‘real’ events with physical objects apply. As transportation was experiencing revolution with cars, roads and highways, becoming mainstream, it was mission critical to come…

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The Object Management Group is exploring potential issues and opportunities for standardization across the world of distributed ledger (DLT) and Blockchain ecosystems. One area of interest is ‘self-sovereign’ identity (SSID), where we see potential for standardization for a new kind of ‘Disposable’ SSID. These are context-specific or ephemeral identities, framed in terms of the existing…

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Disposable Yet Official Identities (DYOI) for Privacy-Preserving System Design – The case of COVID-19 digital document verification and credential-based access control in ad hoc outdoor and indoor settings (and beyond)Petros Kavassalis; Nikos Triantafyllou; Panagiotis Georgakopoulos; Antonis Stasis; Rob van Kranenburg In this paper we report on the design of a service system to endow next-generation…

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About Disposable Identities The Disposable ID acts as a pseudonymous ID and consent, accompanying every data exchange and hardcoding the values of the GDPR. Foundation io,  Disposable Identity as a Service As you learnt to read and write with ABC; society as we know it – what we accept as normal  – is built according to…

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The mindset necessary to understand the need for extreme centralization (Trust-framework) and extreme decentralization (disposable identity) at the same time is war. War allows us to understand loss of sovereignty by losing agency over the basic assets that citizens accept voluntarily (democratically) to fund with their taxes. In 2020 this basic asset is data of people and objects…

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