Creating a Digital Nation: Principles for a Decentralized Identity Ecosystem
Thought
The concept of identity in the digital age, and the potential for establishing a digital nation with decentralized sovereignty.
Note
Creating a Digital Nation with Decentralized Identity.
Analysis
The rise of blockchain technology and the proliferation of digital interactions prompt questions about how identity is managed online. With the increase in data breaches and privacy concerns, the need for a secure and sovereign identity has become paramount. The idea of a "digital nation" can be understood as a community or collective with a shared digital space, using decentralized technologies to manage identities, governance, and communal resources. This could lead not only to enhanced security and privacy but also to new forms of citizenship that are independent of geographical borders.
In aligning with Arthur Koestler's notion of Bisociation, the concept of a digital nation combines the framework of traditional nation states (political domain) with decentralized technologies (technological domain) to form an entirely new structure of societal organization. This interdisciplinary integration leads to the novel idea of a digital nation, providing a potential alternative to the current system of nation-states tied to physical territories.
Books
- “The Sovereign Individual” by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
- “Who Owns the Future?” by Jaron Lanier
- “The Starfish and the Spider” by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
- “Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy” by Melanie Swan
- “The Internet of Money” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Papers
- "Decentralized Blockchain Technology and the Rise of Lex Cryptographia" by Aaron Wright and Primavera De Filippi
- "Self-sovereign Identity: A position paper on blockchain enabled identity and the road ahead" by Christopher Allen
Tools and existing Products
- uPort: A self-sovereign identity and user-centric data platform, built on the Ethereum blockchain.
- Sovrin: A decentralized global public utility for self-sovereign identity.
- Blockstack: A decentralized computing network and app ecosystem.