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Open Blockchain presented to the W3C Credentials Group

Alexander Mikroyannidis, Tuesday 14 July 2020 | Annotate
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On July 13th 2020, the work of the Open Blockchain group was presented to the W3C Credentials Community Group. John Domingue, Allan Third, Alexander Mikroyannidis, Niaz Chowdhury and Mano Ramachandran joined a conference call between all members of the W3C group and presented their latest work on Verifiable Credentials and Blockchains. In particular, John and Allan presented the Open Blockchain architecture and its applications on the Institute of Coding project. Alexander presented an overview of the QualiChain project, its scope and objectives, as well as the pilot conducted by the Open University on lifelong learning. Niaz and Mano presented a Blockchain-based COVID-19 digital immunity passport. The slides from this presentation are available here.

The mission of the W3C Credentials Community Group is to explore the creation, storage, presentation, verification and user control of credentials. The group focuses on a verifiable credential created by an issuer about a subject (a person, group, or thing) and seeks solutions inclusive of approaches, such as self-sovereign identity, presentation of proofs by the bearer, data minimisation, as well as centralised, federated and decentralised registry and identity systems. The group is drafting and incubating Internet specifications for further standardisation and prototyping and testing reference implementations.

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John Domingue

Professor of Computer Science

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Research Fellow

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Alexander Mikroyannidis

Senior Research Fellow

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Niaz Chowdhury

Research Assoc. for Blockchain Learning Verification

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Manoharan Ramachandran

Res. Assoc. for Blockchain Learning Verificatiion

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