December 19, 2018

Sovrin Welcomes Anonyome Labs, Dativa, regio iT, and Unveil.Social as Founding Stewards

This month we’re happy to welcome Anonyome Labs, Dativa, regio iT, and Unveil.Social as Sovrin Foundation Founding Stewards. With these new additions, we welcomed 32 new Stewards in 2018. Our Stewards’ demographics are diverse, spanning every industry – banking, blockchain development, education, cyber security, engineering, entertainment, FinTech, government, healthcare, legal and technology – and nearly […]

December 3, 2018

Evernym Accelerator Program: A Global Community Building the Future of Identity with Sovrin

  Last month, self-sovereign identity (SSI) pioneer, Evernym, launched an Accelerator Program to encourage the widespread adoption of SSI. The Accelerator Program provides a collaborative forum for organizations to learn the technical, business and policy-related implications for SSI so that they can deploy decentralized identity solutions as quickly as possible. Participants also gain direct access […]

November 29, 2018

Sovrin Welcomes EBPI, lab10 collective, Spark, and Swisscom Blockchain as Founding Stewards

We’re excited to welcome the European Business Process Institute (EBPI), lab10 collective, Spark, and Swisscom Blockchain as Founding Stewards. These organizations join more than 50 Sovrin Stewards who span software experts, telecom and IT giants, NGOs, blockchain experts and financial institutions. Sovrin Stewards share a common belief in self-sovereign identity (SSI) as a public utility […]

November 20, 2018

Use Case Spotlight: CULedger Uses Sovrin to Make SSI a Reality for Credit Unions

The Sovrin Foundation was thrilled in May 2018 when Denver-based CULedger applied to become a Founding Sovrin Steward. CULedger is a credit union service organization (CUSO) that focuses on delivering innovative applications to credit unions through its distributed ledger platform (DLT). Their flagship product, MyCUID, is a DLT built platform that enables credit unions to […]

October 29, 2018

“Identity for Good” Program Helps Provide SSI to NGOs and Nonprofits

We’ve teamed up with Evernym, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, to form Identity For Good, an initiative to provide non-governmental agencies (NGOs) and nonprofit organizations with free access to the latest tools, technology, and expertise surrounding self-sovereign identity (SSI). This December, five organizations will be chosen by a panel of judges, to participate […]

October 25, 2018

Use Case Spotlight: Truu, Using Sovrin to Provide Trusted Digital Identity for Doctors

Manreet Nijjar and Henry Goodier became doctors to provide critical care and give support to individuals in need – from cancer diagnoses to life saving operations. They believe the best care is given when trust exists between two entities such as a patient and a healthcare professional; a physician and a hospital; or healthcare organizations. […]

October 18, 2018

Use Case Spotlight: iRespond, Using Sovrin to Provide NGOs with Trusted Digital Identity Systems

Iris scans are considered the most accurate and reliable means to biometrically identify an individual. Patient identification, for example, is one of the biggest impediments to global healthcare delivery and to the NGOs working with underserved populations. Data integrity is also essential to clinical trials, which are often at risk for patient co-enrollment. iRespond is […]

October 5, 2018

Use Case Spotlight: Collaboration and Interoperability on Sovrin

One of the greatest aspects of open source technology is the way it unites companies and organizations across the globe to collaborate and help solve shared problems. Sovrin is thrilled to see a recent example of such a collaboration called Job-Creds. This project was led by Sovrin Stewards ATB Financial, Evernym, and IBM and aims […]

October 1, 2018

Sovrin Stewards: Helping Create Self-Sovereign Identity for All

The Sovrin Foundation’s mission is to provide people and organizations with access to self-sovereign digital identity, and it does this by building, administering, and promoting a global, decentralized, public identity utility called the Sovrin Network. One group that is central to Sovrin’s success is the Sovrin Stewards.   Stewards form a crucial community within the […]

September 12, 2018

Steward Spotlight: IBM

IBM is among the world’s biggest contributors to open blockchain development and has a long history of research and innovation in emerging technologies. That is why it may come as no surprise that the company is among Sovrin’s Stewards. Today we talk to Dan Gisolfi, DE and CTO for Trusted Identity at IBM, about how […]