On the US side our partner Digital Bazaar has set up infrastructure for issuing digital Permanent Resident Cards as envisioned by the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) In the EU we issued digital diplomas using the pre-production European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (EBSI) In the experiment we successfully showed how the US- and EU-issued digital identity credentials can be exchanged between the two sides
The concept behind this experiment was to demonstrate interoperability in the area of the emerging Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) concept building on top of infrastructures that are being developed in the US and the EU SSI is clearly emerging as a next-generation paradigm for digital identity that enables independence privacy security and human dignity for individuals as well as new opportunities for digital identity of organizations and things This approach is based on inherently decentralized architectures that eliminate dependencies on centralized authorities