Digital Identity: A Look Ahead

We will be sharing with the Radical Exchange community three different approaches to digital identity. All step out of conventional paradigms of user-names and passwords and go beyond the “blockchain way” of using just public-private key pairs. Come learn about Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials used in Self-Sovereign Identity, Idema’s proof of personhood solution and Democracy Earth’s approach to reasoning about personhood in DAOs.

SPEAKERS Paula Berman is researcher and builder at the intersection of technology and democracy. Founding member of Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit organization backed by Y Combinator and Templeton Foundation building open source censorship resistant digital democracies.

Supriyo Roy is a veteran designer with product design experience spanning multiple contexts, geographies, mediums, and industries. Currently he leads the foundational UX team at Amazon Alexa Smart Home. He is a strong proponent of inclusive design, and exploring ideas that will disrupt and bring more connectivity and empowerment to the developing countries. Supriyo holds a Masters in Industrial Design from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. He has been working across channels and mediums with past design stints extending to roles with Klaviyo, Flipkart, Spangle, Faasos, and Microsoft. Supriyo’s work for the mobile form factor has fetched him multiple design accolades. His contribution to the growing product design community in India has helped in fostering a new wave of problem solvers for the emerging markets. Currently, he is a community member in Idena project exploring the bounds of pseudonymous crypto-identity.

Kaliya Young known as the “Identity Woman” has spent the last 15 years working to bring about the creation of a new layer of the internet for people based on open standards. She was recently profiled in Wired UK where her work co-founding the Internet Identity Workshop was featured. In 2017 she graduated in the first ever cohort from UT Austin’s iSchool with a Master of Science in Identity Management and Security. Her master’s thesis The Domains of Identity: A framework for understanding identity systems in contemporary society is being published this month by Anthem Press. In 2019, she travelled to India for two months as a New America India-US Public Interest Technology fellow to study Aadhaar their national ID system. She co-founded HumanFirst.Tech with Shireen Mitchel, a project focused on creating space for diverse voices and building a more inclusive industry. In 2012 she was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and Fast Company named her as one of the most influential women in tech in 2009. She consults with Governments, NGO’s, Startups and Enterprises on decentralized identity technologies.