Self-Sovereign Identity gives you a radical new perspective on how we represent ourselves in the world. This case study-driven book cuts through the jargon and hype to expose the amazing potential SSI offers for for security, privacy, identity, and even uprooting way the global economy works. SSI experts Drummond Reed and Alex Preukschat present a vision of the future, examining how SSI protocols will impact industries from banking through to government. You’ll get a clear mental model for how SSI works as you tour SSI-enabled eCommerce and eHealth applications and their advantages over current technologies. While you learn the philosophical and sociological concepts that underpin SSI, you’ll reach the book’s lightbulb moment: what this radical technology really means for the shape of our lives, our businesses, and our futures. Learn more about the book here: http://mng.bz/4BzV

1. The Future of
Digital Identity
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2. In a world of changing privacy
regulations, identity theft, and
online anonymity, identity is a
precious and complex concept.
Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a
set of technologies that move
control of digital identity from
third party “identity providers”
directly to individuals.

3. Self-Sovereign Identity gets
right to the chase, teaching
you how to implement SSI
technology with dozens of
practical use cases from
experts across all major
industries, it presents a clear
and compelling argument
for why SSI is a paradigm
shift, and shows how you
can be ready to be prepared
for it

4. Imagine selling a house,
applying for a driver’s
license, or checking an
applicant’s credentials
without evaluating a
portfolio of papers gathered
from various centralized
institutions.
With Self-Sovereign Identity,
you’ll learn how to make it
happen.

5. What people are saying
about the book:
This is very important
book—it treats very
important problem of
digital identity at the
moment in which solving
it is desperately needed.
-Milorad Imbra
Explores the new fascinating
possibilities offered by SSI and
identity framework based on
strong cryptography,
blockchains and digital wallets.
-Davide Cadamuro

6. About the authors:
Drummond Reed has spent over two decades in Internet identity, security, privacy,
and trust frameworks. He is the Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, and co-author of the
Respect Trust Framework, which was honored with the Privacy Award at the 2011
European Identity Conference. Drummond is a Trustee and Secretary of the Sovrin
Foundation, where he serves as chair of the Sovrin Governance Framework Working
Group, and has served as co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee since 2004.
Alex Preukschat is Global Head of Strategic Blockchain Projects with Evernym. Alex
has been active in the Bitcoin space since 2013 and leads SSIMeetup.org, a global SSI
community to share knowledge in the identity space. He is a co-founder of Blockchain
España and Alianza Blockchain Iberoamérica, and author of multiple reports and books
about Blockchain and identity.

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