Insights and News from the Forefront of Self-Sovereign Identity
Do Top-Level Domains Still Matter?
Do Top-Level Domains Still Matter?Is the TLD Still Relevant? In a digital landscape flooded with phishing, fraud, and malicious activity—across .com, traditional ccTLDs like .ca, and newer gTLDs...
A Summary of Internet Identity Workshop #39
(Images used in banner courtesy of Ankur Banerjee, @ankurb) Introduction Below are my personal highlights from the Internet Identity Workshop #39, held from October 29–31, 2024, at the...
Northern Block Pilots Trust Registry with IATA and Air Travel Partners
[30 October 2024, Bangkok] Northern Block, in collaboration with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and key industry partners, has demonstrated that the future of air travel is...
Offering Outputs, Not Restrictions
The purpose of this blog post is to argue that, instead of expanding controls and imposing unnecessary restrictions on interactions outside their...
Prioritizing Governance Assertions Over Identity Assertions
Are there cases where focusing on governance instead of identity helps achieve our same digital trust goals, while enhancing privacy preservation?...
Seeding a Digital Trust Ecosystem (with Nancy Norris & Kyle Robinson)
 >>  Listen to this Episode On Spotify >> Listen to this Episode On Apple Podcasts About Podcast Episode Energy and Mines...
Chapter 3 – Digital Trust (from Attaining Sovereignty by Unlocking Digital Trust)
We live in an Internet environment where we lack trust due to the lack of true identities.We lightly define trust in the Preface to these...
Chapter 2 – Digital Identity (from Attaining Sovereignty by Unlocking Digital Trust)
In March 2021, the prime ministers of Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Germany called on the European Union (EU) to speed up "digital sovereignty" and...
Chapter 1 – Digital Sovereignty (from Attaining Sovereignty by Unlocking Digital Trust)
In the world of self-sovereign identity (SSI), there are various opinions about using the word sovereignty for describing the ambitions that we are...
Attaining Sovereignty by Unlocking Digital Trust
We wrote An Introduction to Digital Trust in 2021 so that we could send it as a resource to people looking for a simple explainer. It’s proved...
Trust Over IP Foundation: The First Public Review Draft of the Technology Architecture V1.0 Specification
Spending a few days at the Internet Identity Workshop 35 in San Francisco provided a great opportunity to catch up on some reading. I was especially...
Northern Block Participates in the DIACC Foundational ID Report
Northern Block Solutions leveraged to support the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC)'s work on Foundational...
Northern Block participe au Sommet international de l’innovation en villes médianes (SiiVim)
English follows Dans le cadre de notre expansion au Québec, nous avons participé au Sommet international de l’innovation en villes médianes...
Northern Block and the Government of British Columbia Demonstrate Interoperability in the Sharing of Sustainability Data
NB Orbit Enterprise Platform used in Energy & Mines Digital Trust (EMDT) initiative to enhance Sustainability Reporting between multiple...
Learnings from Aries, Indy and Various Verifiable Credential Implementations
September 13, 2022 By Mathieu Glaude Introduction My name is Mathieu Glaude. I’m the CEO of Northern Block, a company bringing products to market...
Achieving AIP 2.0: Increased Interoperability
1Â What is Aries Interop Profile (AIP)? Aries agents are all united through the standards and protocols they aim to adhere to, and the underlying...
Why credential issuance should be holder-driven
Notes to readers:Â The thinking for this post came as we prepare for the public launch of our AiP 1.0 mobile wallet app - and as we prepare to...
Are we really committed to protecting the rights of people and democratic societies? (from CIS2022)
This presentation was made at the Cybersecurity & Identity Summit (CIS2022) held from April 26 to 27, 2022. Mathieu Glaude presented 'Are we...
