Drummond Reed's Nov. 21, 2019 keynote presentation for Secour's Digital Identity & Dementia Summit. This presentation provides a quick introduction to self-sovereign identity (SSI), a few of the pilots in production today, and how SSI can be designed to work for everyone through a concept called digital guardianship.

1. Self-Sovereign Identity
and Digital Guardianship
Drummond Reed | @drummondreed

2. Good morning Toronto!
A little about me:
▫ Chief Trust Officer, Evernym
▫ Trustee, Sovrin Foundation
▫ Chair, Sovrin Governance Framework WG
▫ Member, Sovrin Guardianship Task Force
▫ Co-Author, W3C DID Spec
▫ 20+ years in Internet identity
▫ 15+ years in identity standards
You can reach me at @drummondreed or
drummond.reed@evernym.com.
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3. I am here because we
have reached a watershed
in digital identity
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4. “Blockchain Identity”
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“Decentralized Identity”
“Self-Sovereign Identity”

5. I am not going to explain any
of the technical details of SSI
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(Go to YouTube and search
for “Trust over IP”)

6. SSI in a nutshell
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7. What I am here to tell you is
how fast SSI is growing
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It is just like the Web
20 years ago

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13. And I am also here to tell you
that Canada is a world leader
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14. ● Verifiable digital
credentials for all
legally registered
business entities
● Near real-time updates
across all agencies
● All open source based
on Hyperledger Indy &
Aries
● vonx.io

15. Problems being addressed:
✔ Reusable KYC data
✔ Rapid onboarding for financial products
✔ Regulation insights to data portability
● Government ID
● Driving License
● Bank Statements
● Proof of Address
● Post Secondary
Certificates
● Proof of Employment
● Proof of Earning
● Medical Insurance
● Medical Records

16. But what if you can’t manage
your own digital identity?
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17. 3 billion don’t
have access
to the Internet
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18. 1.9 billion
are children
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19. 70 million
are refugees
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20. 50 million
are adults
with dementia
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21. How can we make identity
work for all?
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22. The Sovrin Governance Framework
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2.2 Guardianship
An Individual who does not have the capability to
directly control that Individual’s Identity Data (a
Dependent) shall have the right to appoint another
Identity Owner who has that capability (an Independent
or an Organization) to serve as the owner’s Guardian.

23. SSI & Guardianship In Action:
Helping refugees in northern Thailand
access essential health services
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Announcing the world’s first
newborn guardianship project
▫ Infant–Parent guardianship affects over 1B
people worldwide
▫ iRespond is taking the challenge as a leader
in privacy-respecting humanitarian action,
kicking off the real-life implementation of
newborn-parent guardianship where it is
needed most
▫ Focused on humanitarian causes (poverty,
education, health, human safety)
Look for details in a soon to be announced press
release from iRespond at www.iRespond.org.

25. ““Gaining a [digital] identity, something that’s
intrinsically part of you and can’t be lost, and yet
that contains nothing that can compromise you
by divulging more than is required—that can be
life changing.”
- Eric Rasmussen, President & Chairman, iRespond
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26. “Guardianship is the
touchstone for digital ethics"
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—Scott Warner, Secours

27. Thank you!
@drummondreed · drummond.reed@evernym.com
This presentation and more technical introductions to SSI are available at
www.slideshare.net/evernym
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