Empower citizens to

control their own

data/identity with the

European Self-Sovereign

Identity Framework

Daniel Du Seuil ESSIF Convenor - EBSI

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielduseuil/

A little (digital story)(contains product placement :-)

Meet my e-bike

In 2020 getting a e-bike loan is digital, not?

I was welcome during

the office hours

between 9-12 and 13-

16

Copy of my ID, copy of

last three months pay

check, consent to

check the debt registry,

etc

New appointment

during office hours to

hand over the

documents

Sign the contract and get my copy

Archive my

contract and

consent

Challenges

● Digital flow?

● Validation of documents?

● Multiple copies of documents?

● Archive of documents?

● Linking different sources?

● Consent registration?

● Re-use of information

● ...

Other cases/challenges

Authenticity diploma?

Identity refugees?

Know your customer?

Checking your age?

Customer experience?

Local identity?

Moving to a new house?

When we think of digital identity we

therefore need to see it not as a single

thing. It is rather the sum total of all the

attributes that exist about us in the digital

realm, a constantly growing and evolving

collection of data points.

Definition digital identity

EU blockchain observatory report on digital identity and blockchain

https://www.eublockchainforum.eu/sites/default/files/report_identity_v0.9.4.pdf

Current (centralized) approach

and solutions

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Control of citizen data

mygov,

mybank,

mycity, etc

Our current EU ‘once only’ approach (Government-Government)

Estonian

example

Linking authentic

(public/private) sources?

Sharing to much information/details?

Discreetly share information?

Trust?

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Control of your own identity data?

“

Control of your own identity data?

The user/citizen in control?

Self sovereign identity?

‘Self-Sovereign Identity is

the next step beyond user-

centric identity and that

means it begins at the same

place: the user must be

central to the administration

of identity.’

— Christopher Allen

disclaimer: example with jolocom SSI solution

wallet, other solutions available/possible

https://www.devteam.space/blog/how-to-build-a-self-sovereign-identity-wallet/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqydT3EujQk

How does these new identity models really work?

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Identity is not only public government related. Many private

partners are actively involved (bank accounts, insurance

documents, social media, health records, etc)

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and it does not end at the national borders ...

ESSIF

European Blockchain Partnership (EBP)Collaborate to let EU take the lead in blockchain

EBP background

ESSIF (European Self

Sovereign Identity

Framework)

● How to collaborate in on the many

cross border challenges of Self

Sovereign identity in Europe?

● Initiative launched in EBP by

Germany/ Nordrhein-Westfalen with

help of Netherlands and Belgium.

● Use case and project in the

European Blockchain Service

Infrastructure (28 member states

involved)

● Belgium and Spain project-

convenors

Scope of ESSIF

• Empower citizen in the management of their data via SSI

• Stimulate the SSI-transformation of public services

• Facilitate cross-border interaction with SSI

• Make/keep national SSI projects interoperable

• Integrate/align existing building blocks such as eIDAS, e-delivery, once-only with SSI

• Conceptualize and build an identity layer in the new European Blockchain Services Infrastructure supporting the current use cases

• Preserve European/democratic values in the implementation of Self Sovereign identity

• Stimulate SSI development and standardization on global level (W3C, DIF, ISO, CEN-CENELEC, etc.)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmOCNt8aXy8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXCzY-GM_U&t

SSI ecosystem without ESSIF

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SSI ecosystem with ESSIF specification and public

services involvement

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ESSIF specifications (example: Relying party

environment)

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ESSIF - eIDAS

• SSI eIDAS legal report, see https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/ssi-eidas-bridge/legal-deliverables

• https://youtu.be/ATXCzY-GM_U

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ESSIF - GDPR

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SSI ecosystem with ESSIF components

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Example ESSIF implementation:

Diplomas features in EBSI

Diplomas

ISSUE A DIPLOMA

VERIFY A DIPLOMA

REVOKE DIPLOMA

SUSPEND DIPLOMA

Student

REQUEST THE ISSUANCE OF THE DIPLOMA

ACCEPT DIPLOMA

SHARE DIPLOMA

Institution

ISSUE EDUCATIONAL ADSCRIPTION ATTRIBUTES

(membership)

ISSUE LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

VERIFY EDUCATIONAL ADSCRIPTION ATTRIBUTES

(membership)

Governance

ADD EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

GRANT ACCESS TO AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

REVOKE ACCESS TO AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

REMOVE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Related projects

ISSUE EUROPEAN STUDENT CARD

VERIFY EUROPEAN STUDENT CARD

Out of Scope of ESSIF

• The interpretations of the data (semantics) and the necessary standardizations and business logic is however outside the scope of ESSIF.

• ESSIF will provide in its first instance support for other EBSI use cases (like diploma and notarization)

• ESSIF will not build and maintain an SSI wallet for all European citizens and interfere in this way with the emerging market of SSI solutions and personal data storage.

• Academic research on SSI is out of scope of the EBSI use case ESSIF.

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ESSIF v2 timeline

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Get involved

• Full documentation and source code of v1 will be soon published on https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/EBSI

• Join the ESSIF stakeholder meeting (2-3 meetings per year)

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1876: "This 'telephone' has

too many shortcomings to be

seriously considered as a

means of communication." —

William Orton, President of

Western Union.

Thank you for your attention(and thanks to Rene Margritte)