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Course Overview

Trust is essential in our everyday lives, we need to prove things about ourselves, and have appropriate confidence in others, to take any action from the day-to-day and to our significant life decisions. Proving things about ourselves online, and trusting things about others online, is hard and the tools and designs we currently use present problems for people and organizations alike. Online trust crumbles with each data breach and surveillance economy outrage. 

This course will help you learn about how the emerging technologies and design principles behind self-sovereign identity can be used by organizations, people, and even things to help to restore our confidence in online transactions. The course provides insights into these technologies, the fundamental principles upon which they rely, how they can be used to build better systems, and where new developments are heading. It will teach you how these technologies can support new trust models and new business models.

By the end of this course, you will have a better understanding of SSI technology and principles, and how they can be used to build better systems.

What You Will Learn

  • How SSI is different to many other models of digital identity and trusted data
  • How to recognize a good SSI solution from an “SSI washing” solution
  • Why these difference matter
  • economically
  • socially and ethically
  • How these technologies and the SSI principles can be used to build better systems for us all

Program Curriculum

  • Context and Key Terms
  • Why We Need Better Models for Online Trust?
  • Why Privacy is Important for All of Us?
  • The Conceptual Building Blocks of SSI
  • The Technical Building Blocks of SSI
  • Commercial, Social, and Personal Benefits
  • Section Summary
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Basic Cryptographic Approaches
  • Decentralized Trust Architectures – Big Picture
  • Trustworthy Data: Verifiable Credentials
  • Trustworthy Endpoints: DIDs and DID Docs
  • Secure Communication: DID Comm
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Recap: What is a Decentralized Trust System?
  • Key Management Models
  • Credential Lifecycle Management
  • Wallets and Agents
  • Governance Frameworks
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Delegation and Guardianship
  • Organizational Identities and Delegation
  • The Internet of Things: Ownership and Control, Rights and Duties
  • Supply Chains & Provenance
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Example Applications
  • Building the Business Case
  • Alternative and Emerging Models
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Network and Communication
  • Open-source Software: Hyperledger and DIF Repositories
  • New and Emerging Models
  • The Global Community
  • Where and How to Get Involved?
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 6 Quiz
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Instructor

John Phillips

John Phillips is an internationally recognized expert in SSI. Active across several global interest groups and foundations, John was an invited co-author of the SSI book “Self-Sovereign Identity”, writing the chapter on how to explain SSI to people and organizations. Building on a lifelong career in global emerging technologies, across sectors from the Space Industry to Higher Education, John has spent his career explaining the technology and its potential to impact our social and economic lives at an individual, organizational and national level. He began his career as a designer and coder working on helicopter simulators before testing emerging communication products for space station freedom and software development environments for space systems. The opportunity to work across more than 10 countries, and live in several more, has given John an international perspective, a respect for different opinions and approaches, and a realization that there is always more to learn.

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