EXPLORING DIGITAL IDENTITY FOR DECENTRALIZED SOCIETIES
Where? Qiqo Chat, Online
When? August 16th & 18th, 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM PDT / 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM EDT
Protocols for decentralized social verification are a key missing element of the Internet. In the absence of broadly adopted open standards, so far this role has largely been filled by big technology organizations. Yet, the challenge of furthering open protocols that can support better and more scalable forms of digital sociality, greater local control and federation as well as composable and community-bound rights, is within reach.
This is a central theme for us, as many of the proposals being worked on with the RxC global community (e.g Plural Voting, Plural Funding, and Data Dignity) require some form of participant authentication to be put into practice. As such, recently the DeSoc paper advanced powerful new concepts and served to ignite important conversations around this theme within the blockchain space. Moreover, many other communities, such as the Internet Identity Workshop, W3C working groups and others, have worked on related challenges and fostered many of the innovations that are being used on the current web with tooling developed and ready for Web3 too. With this gathering, our aim is to facilitate a space for knowledge exchange, risk mitigation, and cross-collaboration across an extensive plurality of actors.
For more details, visit the 2022 Conference Page