There is also a large innovation funding program for Digital IDs by EU Innovators – NGI Sargasso - for collaboration between EU, Canada and USA, where it was recently possible to apply for funding.
Similar like wonderful NLNet ( NLnet; All projects ) program for open source projects, but this one https://ngisargasso.eu/ is for digital IDs and things like this, and program logo is a fingerprint… Program is run by 5 other organizations and is running for a few years.
They funded around 60 ideas so far, this is projects list:
Are these projects for the better, or for worse?
Looking through the projects I see a lot of buzzwords: AI, Blockchain, Quantum, so a lot of these projects will fail… And at the center stage is “Digital ID” as a great “innovation”.
Some examples:
- “Interoperable identity and credential solutions bridging EU and North America”
- “Blockchain-based Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identities”
- “Facilitate Verifiable Credentials Presentation across borders”
- “Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography Self-Sovereign Identity Stack”
- “Decentralized Electronic Signature using Blockchain based Digital Identity”
- “EBSI and Verifiable Credentialing in Canada.”
- “Democratizing Decentralized Digital Identity through Cloud agents”
- “Decentralized Digital Identity Profile”
- etc
Some better sounding examples:
- “Decentralized Digital Sovereign Identity and Voting System using Blockchain Technology” (at least interesting to explore)
- “Empower eDemocracy For Peace” (at least sounds nice)
- “Zero-Knowledge Authentication with Compromise Detection”
- “Secure and Efficient Data Spaces”
- “Towards a Standard Interface for Differential Privacy Systems with Database Interoperability”
- “Enhancing Trusted Transatlantic Data Processing and Storage with Fully Homomorphic Encryption”