Revolutionizing Identity Management with Blockchain Technology

is uh we've got two great presentations today  they both deal with trust the first one is about trust and identity management and our presenter  is Mr Dino Cataldo Del Ocasio I hope I got that right that means that delacio thank you perfect  thank you uh he is the United Nations digital transformation working group lead he designed  and implemented a global solution for the United Nations using Biometrics and blockchain for proof  of identity existence location and transaction log which is the a

udit evidence and he also  leads the GBA identity management group and he coordinates best practices and Lessons  Learned across all un programs including the World Health Organization the World Trade  Organization world food program and many others thank you very much William for the kind  introduction so I don't have much to add to what you really said about me indeed I have Global  leading the digital transformation working group of the United Nations system and my day-to-day job  is to be a

Chief Information officer at the United Nation pension fund and for the due disclaimer  just want to clarify that I'm participating in the activities at GBA as a professional member  to form my personal capacity so as uh William uh said and Gerard introduced before um the  topic of today one of the topic of today is about identity management and mentioning what is  the value proposition of identity management and blockchain and what are some uh real case examples  and what is also and specifical

ly the purpose and the demanded if you will of this working group  that has been created within the GBA Association so very briefly as Gerard alluded to there  is a link in the chat there are additional information on the website so I will not spend  uh too much time about speaking about the GBA because you can find all those information online  or you can definitely hear from members that are being part of the activities of the GBA for a  long time but simply to highlight that it's a non-profit

member organization there are several  benefit in being part of the GBA and also the fact that the GBA is really focused on creating  thematic working groups that bring together world renowned expert and create opportunity for  all those who like to participate and share both experience idea on how to improve and  move forward the agenda of blockchain um there is as I just mentioned a dedicated  working group that is being created has been established for identity management like other  working

group that you will be able to find on the website that is one of the energy sectors there  is one on on voting and health and so forth and so on so very important and relevant initiative that  bring together subject matter expert but also that offer the opportunity for those who wants to learn  more about this topic to really uh join forces with those who have a hands-on experience in this  environment there are events as William alluded to some bi-weekly some are weekly some are monthly  in t

his specific case of the identity management the working group we are meeting every week on  Wednesday from 9 to 10 Eastern Standard Time so let's start by highlighting and mentioning  the value proposition of using blockchain in supporting in support of identity management or  digit identity there are of course some subtle distinction here that's why I put the two terms  together and of course for those who would like to take this offline we can uh speak uh more  into the details but first and

foremost I I wanted to share this slide that comes from  the decentralized identity Foundation which recognize as part of the studies and the  research that they conducted that although blockchain and distributed Ledger technology  are no perfect they are as of today the best and the most stable approach to support production  really system in support of identity management system at the large scale so I thought that  it was is very relevant and important to start sharing some reliable input fro

m credible  and established organization such as the div here I'm going to share with you additional slide  that basically introduced the concept of what is the role that blockchain can play in the larger  domain of identity management so this is a an article on consensus that highlights and focus the  concept of access the concept of data and security and the concept of fraud Visa the identity and  the reason why I introduce and I capture this slide is really because ultimately comes very  clos

e to to my environment here we are we have the United Nation sustainable development goals  that specifically in the goal number 16 which is about promoting peaceful and inclusive Society  for sustainable development emphasize the role of identity and indeed one of the target within the  goal 16 which is the target 16.9 is about by 2030 to provide a legal identity for all including  of course at the very beginning our life which is a at the moment of birth so and here on the  right side you see

also other icons that speak about the issue that today exists when it comes to  Identity for example just to mention one amongst dividers icon the device topic that you see on  the right side of the screen there is a record of 100 million people that are being displaced every  year and one of the biggest issue that is caused by this displacement is indeed about the fact  that it cannot prove who they are so hence the concept and the uh hope that the use of Technology  such as blockchain can reso

lve can prevent and can help in this in this domain and here again just to  further reaffirm the importance the value at the very highest level governance of the United Nation  there is a resolution of the general assembly so hence the body that represents the entire 193  countries that already in 2019 with a resolution um of the right to privacy in the digital age  to basically reconfirm the critical role that identity and in particular digital identity is  now more and more important so this i

s just to serve as an introduction to a fundamentally uh  frame the conversation as to why it is important to address the possibility the potential that  a technology such as blockchain may have in supporting The Establishment the design and  ultimately the deployment implementation of digital ID solution so let's look very briefly at  the benefit so in terms of benefit as we all saw as we all know first and foremost it is a concept  of decentralization because the blockchain offered the benefit

of not having data stored only on a  central location and therefore basically prevents the typical a common issue or having a single  point for a failure we have of course also the concept of immutability and the fact that the  being tamper-proof the blockchain can ensure authenticity add Integrity of the data that are  stored which of course in the domain of digital identity is critical for for the user and also  for the verifier and the validators we have the concept of transparency again the

blockchain is  definitely a suitable tool and platform here to allow to enable for example government entities  or also the private sector to track the history of the digital identity of individual but not all  of individual because as we know Digi identity can also be associated with asset can also  be associated with organization and so forth we have very importantly and again this derives  also from the good work done by The Sovereign Foundation by the div the digital identity The  decentral

ized Entity Foundation vis-a-vis the concept of self-sovering identity so it's being  proven and indeed the mic is I actually use it for the solution that was deployed by the UN pension  fund this concept of self-sovering identity where blockchain can enable individuals to have a full  control over their personal data and give them the ability to determine decide where and not to share  and what to share these heavy dirt transaction and then of course we have also the concept of the  internet av

ailability the fact that the blockchain here on the right side of the screen I extracted  from the w3c this specific goal that they have defined in the creation of this component of  the decentralized identity called the did or decentralized identifiers one more domain where  again blockchain can be a positive uh force in a supported digital identity it's access control  for example void smart contract it is possible to identify and to determine when access to resources  can issue be granted vis

-a-vis specific attribute and credential so we're seeing the benefit now  very briefly I'm gonna walk you through very few examples that salute that represents solutions  that have already been implemented first and foremost allow me to present my own solution  this is as a William kindly uh introduced this is a solution that was created by the U.N pension  fund in order to make sure that the organization pays beneficiary that are still alive one of  the biggest constraint limitation or challeng

e of the U.N pension fund is its uniqueness the  fact that we are pension fund with more than 84 000 members beneficiary uh dislocated around the  globe and more than 190 countries and the problem of determining whether someone is still alive  or not was always a question by the governing body by Auditors over the bodies and so forth  and so on because until now for the 70 years existence or the pension fund this process was  conducted was verified by using a manual form by sending through Posta

l Service under the 90  countries a piece of a piece of paper that had to be signed and returned by the beneficiary and  of course you can imagine not just the problem of delay or no receipt of this form given that  sometimes some Postal Service may not work as expected but also the exposure to potential  fraud and forgery of the signature so hence the creation of an application that used Biometrics  and that records each of the transaction each of the steps that are performed on the immutable 

blockchain in order to prove evidence to our stakeholders governing body auditor oversight  body and and so forth there are others we're about one-third through the slides and at  the halfway point just for Pace perfect thank you so much William I'll try to uh make sure that I  remain within the allotted time thank you so much other solution for example the hurt ID and also a  solution that is being developed and implemented by an organization which is a member of the GBA  here you have links an

d information for further research for those who are interested in in  following further we have big players we have IBM that specifically created a blockchain platform  in support of digital identity and credentials so definitely very reputable and credible  organization we have other solutions for example in India that have been created specifically  to support e-government procedure or in the world of Education for example for University  in order to confirm the validity of academic degrees s

o this is the uh the the the future  Tech uh solution and there are many others and indeed here I extracted from the gbbc the global  blockchain Business Council one of their uh study that they specifically conducted over the dental  digital identity and that identify commercially available solutions from all this organization  that you see here represented on the slide so we went through the benefit we went through  a case of real implementation however nothing of course it's immune of challeng

es and here let's  look also challenges of course as we know I saw today some blockchain although mechanism have  been implemented to improve their ability with different layers of uh operation there is still  the issue scalability so like in many other domain also in the domain of digital identity when  you are dealing with fast increasing number of digital identity and Associated large number of  transaction this can hamper the Effectiveness and efficiency of a blockchain solution for digital 

identity we had the problem of privacy because data of course as we know once there are the  blockchain are accessible to all whether it's public or private to all the private members of  a private blockchain and permission blockchain we add issue related to the still or the complexity  notwithstanding the very good initiative a training even a gba is promoting still there is a  requirement to have a certain level of technical expertise we had issue regulation of course  digital identity in uh

has affected by different jurisdiction so identify solution and a mechanism  that can compromise amongst other different jurisdiction and legislation can be can be a  challenge issue of course adoption because again blockchain is still falls under the domain of  new Innovative technology so it's not common and familiar to everybody and of course the issue for  a centrally centralization because notwithstanding the attribute that we looked at before these  are the fact that blockchain are by defi

nition decentralized the implementation of a solution  of a digital identity on top of a decentralized blockchain sometimes does create unintended or  necessary centralization for the application itself for the solution of course we also  sometimes we're issue of interoperability because given the existence of multiple different protocol  sometimes this protocol do not automatically communicate with themselves so where do we go from  here this is fundamentally the Mandate of this working group i

s to work with the many identity  management organization framework Association some have you as you've seen in the previous slide  are very well known the div the w3c and so forth and so on in terms of trying to create a common  protocol to identify as I mentioned before not just people but also places organization in order  to make sure that we are protecting the Privacy uh and security of the individual and indeed here you  can see from this slide some of the main actors that are already in d

ifferent sub domain there  are those who work in the ideation and design incubation refinement standardization so you  have the nest there w3c ISO div and so forth so now we go into the part which I hope and I  think that I should not go into too many details and this is about the signature deliverable so far  of the GBA amongst many others but fundamentally uh the blockchain the bmm model definitely  represents one of the uh most important outcome of the work already done and to mention this an

d  to mention is component uh that try to address in a comprehensive and complete manner all the  different aspects of the blockchain however to say that we already I was part of the team that  developed the bmm we already identified it in certain areas there is a need to supplement the  bmm such as the banking the finance domain and the healthcare voting and gaming and identity  management is indeed one of those domain where we are thinking and this is is going to be  in the in the plan of work

of this working group is to create and document a supplement  to add the specific control objectives those specific requirement expectation these heavy  the user blockchain for identity management this is just a an example of the leaders that are  really members of this working group and Gerard was kind enough to create a QR code that will  enable you or whoever is going to access this presentation which by the way is accessible uh  through the GBA global.org website so that you can retrieve th

e detailed information of these  leaders this is this meeting scheduled for 2023 here we are in February speaking of identity  management immediately after me about voting an election and this is the next conference that  uh Gerard alluded to and here by scanning this QR code you can have access directly to the file the  thank you for attention if you have any question we can either take it online now or offline at  any other time thank you so much thank you William great thank you dino very ver

y insightful uh what  I noticed is that despite and notwithstanding some some obstacles huge amount of promise and and what  that can deliver so thank you again Dino uh I can also say for the blockchain maturity model our  company is going to be getting this accreditation probably in the next couple months so very good  deliverable from the from the GBA so I'd like to announce our next presentation it is also along  the lines of trust but it's in regards to voting so our presenter is Eugene mara

zal Mr marzov  is a seasoned CEO with expertise in blockchain and decentralized finance Eugene has hands-on  experience in financial services real estate technology e-commerce health care blockchain and  cannabis Mr razov is also a co-founder of several projects including Equity everscale Academy the  audit de trace and domai's he is also a voting working group leader at the government blockchain  Association but I'll hand it over to Eugene now thank you very much so uh first of all many thanks 

to uh Gerard uh for uh putting us all together um Michael for the intros I happen to know  about self-care a bit um so we should talk more about Partners partnering and uh dino of  course thank you very much for your pioneering um and breakthrough work at the United  Nations which helps enormously I cannot overestimate how important it is for a global  adoption of any new technologies that the fact that they're being introduced by reputable  and globally recognized the authority right which hav

e United Nations clearly belongs to  that list with its uh sister organization so um uh what you're doing is very very  important for other projects as well once a digital uh decentralized identity has been  established and there is a unique Association of a live person and the digital identity whether that  being in the format of self Sovereign format or a government run list but that allows us to apply  that identification in a variety of other meals in the variety of other projects one of tho

se is uh  voting so once we let's assume uh that everybody who is eligible to vote does have a digital  identity for example through the mechanism that didn't introduced it opens a variety of further  possibilities and the critical part is trust um it's very very important to understand that  the fundamental importance of what DNA is doing is establishing trust in something digital so  once that has been achieved and I think you know and his colleagues are well on the way of  doing that through

the uh who went through uh government blockchain Association through uh  many other International organizations working on standardization and towards Mass adoption  of blockchain as a technology they all focus on trust and once we have the digital identity  established we can pick up from there and do a few more amazing things for example we can introduce  a system that guarantees uh trust in voting procedures now to step back briefly um obviously a  group of people um who are committed to impr

oving voting got together and analyze what's going  on in different countries but primarily in the US and identified with the help of very Advanced  and uh amazing experts what are the core issues at the moment with a remote voting what needs to  be improved what needs to be now looks that and um amazingly on my presentation you've seen very  similar issues that Dima showed in this just a few minutes ago so the things that are tampering with  advancement the things that are preventing certain so

lutions from being introduced so there are  certain things in the current system that are not working very well and that is uh by law in the U.S  at least you must ensure permanent separation or voter bulletin and borrower so anonymity must be  insured uh today it's very difficult to talk about any radio solutions that will guarantee except one  Marvel of new technology zero knowledge snarks and similar Technologies we will talk about a little  bit undo centralization right also do the mention t

hat in this presentation same thing here relevant  we are aware of a lot of abuses of voting results a lot of issues um on polling stations Etc massive  security risks obviously uh disputes lawsuits with results verification and audit and of course also  was mentioned integration with other systems is traditionally uh problem currently now what  we wanted to achieve is um a protocol that will guarantee the best security and reliable  performance once the ID has been established we happen to use

the cryptographic and computational  science uh analysis that were designed in the last few years this is all the brand new and uh at  the moment uh talking about scalability Michael yeah at the moment when we talk  about scalability uh another issue that dinner brought up uh there are  blockchains that can support up to 50 000 TPS and with transaction costs less than  half a cent that's critical to have as well and uh immutability is necessary here to remove  any doubt obviously in what has bee

n reported um that those are some of the critical uh things  we need to look at in the voting space so um there are technological solutions today that allow for  high-speed and scalability on blockchain foreign and uh airtight security using advances in  uh cryptographic sites all of that allowed essentially to create an app uh the app allows  you for now on Android to conduct uh well what we like to call indisputable elections so that  they can be uh guaranteeing through anonymity uh useful int

erfaces for both admin  and voter to simple user experience and they must be designed to serve millions of  Voters on the same boat so uh that is possible today it requires as one of the countries uh voter  verification so this must be based on something similar that Dino was describing in terms of  decentralized identity management so there are separate roles I will not go into details for the  admin uh the very simple actions by a voter and uh the app is working today we are conducting from  o

ur basic simple elections but they um address a number of critical points now any specialist in  voting will confirm that uh the way elections are run especially in the US is incredibly complex  and uh it has many levels it has many different requirements depending whether it's political or  commercial uh within political there are different levels or commercial there are their own specifics  so I will not go into more detail right now in the interest of time but uh this is something that is  ac

hievable um right now so at the moment we have the fundamental technology that allows you both at  the core level at the level of extras to address critical things that are important to address  all the existing problems with remote mode and once that's done we are hoping that this  technology with your help with help of government blockchain Association and all of  you here will be spread through the world and become adopted so we are working on that as a  company as a whole and we are certainl

y open to the joining forces with other people working to  improve work through space uh happy to be here