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Blockchain as a Humanitarian Tool for Digital Identity
The world is abuzz with blockchain. Financial service providers, governmental agencies and—most recently—humanitarian organizations are all investigating how blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), generally, could improve operations.[1]...
If there is one thing that is certain about the decentralized identity space its that its far from unified, and hasn’t been for the decades that its been proposing everything from OpenID through to IOTA and the various “self sovereign ID” proposals. For any distributed id to be likely to be persistent enough to be worth the phenomenal effort of getting the billion or so un-identified into it, its going to need something that goes beyond one company or protocol, it will need standards of some kind with multiple independent parties agreeing to them, otherwise the most likely outcome is a huge push to register people, followed by the demise of whatever technology/blockchain/database its based on and we are back to square one but with even less trust.