Digital Identity and Distributed Ledger Technology: Paving the Way to a Neo-Feudal Brave New World?

Gstrein, Oskar Josef; Kochenov, Dimitry

doi:10.3389/fbloc.2020.00010

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“…It should not be taken for granted that advanced digital identities fix these issues. They might as well enable an era of "neo-feudalism" and increased social division, especially if their implementation is done naïvely purely focusing on questions of technical feasibility (Gstrein and Kochenov, 2020).…”

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Digital Identity and the Blockchain: Universal Identity Management and the Concept of the “Self-Sovereign” Individual

2020

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“…With decentralization however, this pattern might be changing. When focusing on this governance layer of digital identities, three types can be distinguished (Gstrein and Kochenov, 2020):…”

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2020

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“…23 Circumventing the developing world state through individual digital rights may represent mobility for some, while for others it will mean the ability of the global North to replace universal rights with digital risk assessment and the ''segregation of the global population into relatively closed groups of varying value.'' 24 The ongoing discussions around non-proprietary standards for SSI, on or off chain functionality, does little to change the contours of a tech-humanitarianism that allows blockchain developers to extract value from the global South.…”

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Blockchain humanitarianism and crypto-colonialism

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2022

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The humanitarian sector has emerged as a powerful mechanism of legitimation for blockchain technology. Platform developers in the aid sector have been eager to showcase the promise of decentralization and encrypted blockchain data as the inheritance of the world's poor and developing nations. This article claims that humanitarian blockchain projects are inextricably linked to the politics of the crypto-economy, proprietary platforms, and a class of solutionists championing Silicon Valley's cultural values. Blockchain humanitarianism has emerged through a private-public partnership (PPP) model in the non-governmental organization (NGO) sector that embraces tech disruption and innovation. Ethically sound blockchain humanitarian projects are precluded by the inherent obscurantism of the technology, the inability to transpose blockchain's governance logic in the social realm, and inextricable ties to the political economy of cryptocurrencies. Projects in the developing world have thus embodied a colonial logic of techno-experimentation for platform developers and imbricate the NGO sector into the PR logic of blockchain solutionism. ll

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“…interpersonal nature of most expressions of our identity (Hopman & M'Charek, 2020). Following a tradition of identification technologies, ' intensified regimes of surveillance, securitisation and control' (Lyon, 2008;Cheesman, 2020) would tend to emerge, further solidifying existing inequalities (Gstrein & Kochenov, 2020).…”

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Self-sovereign identity

Γιαννοπούλου¹,

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2021

Internet Policy Review

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The concept of self-sovereign identity (SSI) describes an identity management system created to operate independently of third-party public or private actors, based on decentralised technological architectures, and designed to prioritise user security, privacy, individual autonomy and self-empowerment. Issue 2This article belongs to the Glossary of decentralised technosocial systems, a special section of Internet Policy Review. Definition of the termThe concept of self-sovereign identity (SSI) 1 describes an identity management system created to operate independently of third-party public or private actors, based on decentralised technological architectures, and designed to prioritise user security, privacy, individual autonomy and self-empowerment.1. We will use the term sovereign identity and SSI interchangeably.

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Digital Identity and Distributed Ledger Technology: Paving the Way to a Neo-Feudal Brave New World?

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

Digital Identity and the Blockchain: Universal Identity Management and the Concept of the “Self-Sovereign” Individual

Digital Identity and the Blockchain: Universal Identity Management and the Concept of the “Self-Sovereign” Individual

Blockchain humanitarianism and crypto-colonialism

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