2020: THE DECENTRALIZED DIGITAL IDENTITY ECOSYSTEM IN THE IBERO-AMERICAN WORLD

Authors

Lucas Carmona Ampuero

Passionate about exponential technologies and their use for social impact. Driver of Blockchain technology and Self-Sovereign Identity. Advisor, consultant and trainer in Digital Transformation, EdTech, and IoT, with more than 20 years of experience in TI in large corporations and SMEs. Co-founder of Factory Matters, startup creator of FBL Methodology (Factory Based Learning) to bring digital transformation to education. He currently combines his work as CTO in Factory Matters, experiencing Decentralized Digital Identity and Verifiable Credentials in his educational ecosystem, with advice and training in Blockchain and SSI in Blockchain España.

Alex Preukschat

Alex is passionate about the continuous social transformation facilitated by technology and the new P2P economy. He works as the Global Head of Blockchain Strategy at Evernym, a Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) technology company. Alex is the coordinator and founder of the Decentralized Digital Identity community SSIMeetup.org that gathers the best SSI minds of the world to create a global SSI movement. Currently, Alex is working on his next book,  IdentityBook.info, with Drummond Reed that will be published by Manning. Previously, Alex published the first Bitcoin graphic novel of the world (BitcoinComic.org) and the Spanish speaking Blockchain best-seller of Spain and Southamerica “Blockchain: la revolución industrial de Internet“. He is also the founder of Blockchain España (BlockchainEspana.com) and a founding member of the Alianza Blockchain Iberoamérica (AlianzaBlockchain.org). Alex studied at Universidad Pontificia Comillas-ICADE E-4 in Madrid/Spain and ESB Reutlingen/Germany.

Íñigo Molero

Bachelor in Law and Master in Journalism. Has worked during his career for non-governmental organizations managing communication tasks. He currently works as an analyst and consultant. Iñigo is the co-author of “Blockchain, la revolución industrial de Internet” and collaborates in different initiatives of the blockchain ecosystem as Blockchain España or EthicHub.

Daniel Paramo

Enthusiast of the infinite possibilities that the industry 4.0 brings. From having a universal digital wallet for  all your records to having a neobank. He is the co-founder of swys, which let’s companies offer financial services and automate complex financial workflows through it’s suite of plug and play APIs. swys handles the hard work of interoperability, compliance, and analytics. He is also Xertify’s advisor, where they use verifiable credentials, blockchain and analytics to facilitate communication, issuance and verification between students, workers and institutions. He has several years of experience in business development, innovation and flight testing engineering. He founded several startups associated with blockchain and the sharing economy, as well as being a former account executive at Learning Machine and former business development at Bell Helicopter. Daniel holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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How Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is shaping up in the Iberoamerican world

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is booming, and we expect it to be one of the main unifying technologies of the blockchain and decentralized world. Unlike our first report, we have chosen, for this edition, to prepare a shorter executive document that reflects the main trends in the region. In this study, we will focus on Ibero-American initiatives that are either done in the name of SSI or have elements strongly resembling SSI, rather than simple authentication experiments that are further away from the principles of SSI.

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