Alex Preukschat and Drummond Reed
Background
Alex Preukschat and Drummond Reed are preparing a book about decentralized digital identity in which many people from the global identity and blockchain communities are participating. It is expected that this book will become a reference piece about decentralized digital identity and the self-sovereign identity ecosystem around the world. It will be published in the autumn of 2019.
Structure of the book
The objective of the book is to be as evergreen as possible in highlighting the importance of self-sovereign identity for the world, sharing use cases in plenty of different industries, exploring the concept of decentralization, explaining the basic architecture and technology principles for SSI and the legal frameworks that will support (and be enabled by) SSI. One-third of any revenue generated by the book will be donated to RWOT, one third to IIW and one third to SSIMeetup.org. The authors will not receive any monetary compensation for the book.
Anthology Format
The book is designed to be an anthology composed of chapters contributed by many different authors in the space. The first three chapters, by Alex, Drummond, and Christopher Allen, will set the stage and provide the big picture of SSI. Then there will be major sections as shown in the TOC below.
About Alex Preukschat
Alex is a best selling author for "Blockchain: the industrial revolution of the internet". Published May 2017 with 7 editions/8000 prints in 15 months. TOP 10 Amazon.es best seller for two weeks and TOP 1 best seller for the business and technology section for one month. Most popular and sold Spanish speaking Blockchain book. 4 editions in 4 months and 5000 printed copies. Published also in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Argentina. Creator and Autor of the first Bitcoin graphic novel of the world: "Bitcoin: The hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto". Published in English, Russian, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish in 2014 that became a global best seller in the global Bitcoin community. Coordinating author of the Spanish translation of the “The book of Satosi” available here libroblockchain.com/satoshi and co-creator of Blockchain España ( Blockchain Espana.org: one of the main Spanish Blockchain communities) and Alianza Blockchain Iberoamérica (AlianzaBlockchain.org: an alliance of Blockchain communities from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, and Spain).
Creator of SSIMeetup.org, a global Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) community, to popularize interest around the principles of Decentralized Digital Identity.
About Drummond Reed
Drummond has spent over two decades in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust frameworks. He joined Evernym as Chief Trust Officer after Evernym’s acquisition of Respect Network, where he was CEO, co-founder, 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 Trust Framework Working Group. He has served as co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee since 2004, the semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Prior to starting Respect Network, Drummond was Executive Director of two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange. He has also served as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons. In 2002 he was a recipient of the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was honored as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor.
Draft Table of Contents
Decentralized Digital Identity: The Advent of Self-Sovereign Identity with Blockchain
Part A Decentralized Digital Identity: What Is It?
1 Decentralized digital identity: principles & fundamentals
2 The path to Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)
3 Concepts of Decentralized Digital Identity
Part B How the Identity Revolution will Change your Business
4 Digital Banking just got faster and more trustworthy with Decentralized Identity
5 Decentralized financial products decrease wait times when powered by Decentralized Identity
6 Insurance firms reinvent themselves with Decentralized Digital Identity
7 Telecommunications providers find profound ways to fill the missing gap of the Internet
8 The energy sector gets a new relationship model
9 Decentralized Digital Identity in Healthcare: The foundations of a new era of trusted relationships between individuals, organizations and clinical things
10 The next Media revolution is here thanks to Decentralized Digital Identity
11 NGOs and financial inclusion powered by Decentralized Identity
12 Governments get on board to enhance the public good with Decentralized Digital Identity
13 Canada: The meaning of trust for Identity
14 Law enforcement and legal professionals streamline crime fighting once and for all
15 Decentralized Digital Identity squashes multiple squabbles in family court
16 Educational facilities turn to Decentralized Digital Identity to keep students and staff safer
17 Animal care, adoption, and accountability just became crystal clear
18 The Coworking and office space industry with decentralized identity
19 The Recruitment industry with decentralized identity
Part C Cross-Industry Use Cases of Blockchain
18 Open democracy and electronic voting
19 Smart cities with Decentralized Identity
20 Music, images and a fairer concept of intellectual property
21 Decentralized identity, Decentralized File Systems, and the Decentralized Web
22 The opportunity of e-commerce with Identity
23 Smart contracts and Decentralized Digital Identity
24 The Self-Sovereign Expansion of the Digital “I” and “We”
25 Supply-chain management powered by Decentralized Digital Identity in Pharma
Part D Decentralization as a model for life
26 Hacktivism, cypherpunks and the birth of Decentralized Digital Identity
28 Decentralization for a peaceful society
29 Decentralization as a model for life
30 The three dimensions of Decentralized Identity
31 Centralization vs decentralization believers
Part E Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Technology
32 Basic Cryptography principles for Decentralized Digital Identity
33 Free software, open source in the Decentralized Digital Identity world
34 Decentralized Digital Identity Architectures
35 Verifiable Credentials
36 DIDs – the basic ingredients
37 Decentralized Identity Graphs
38 Identity wallets are not the same as crypto wallets
39 Making Smart Contracts smart with Decentralized Digital Identity
40 Public Identities in the Ethereum ecosystem
Part F Decentralized Identity and the Law
41 Legal questions from Decentralized Digital Identity to Governance Frameworks
Part G Identity, Investment and Money
42 Decentralized Digital Identity protocol business models
43 Identity is money
Part H Closing
44 A vision of the future based on Decentralized Digital Identity
45 Evolution of the Decentralized Digital Identity Community