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28. Governance Before Innovation?
Digital Identity should be all about innovation, but it is dominated by governance. Read on to discover the pitfalls of this approach and how the…
Jul 12
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Dr Alan Mayo
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27. SEDI: Distributed, not Decentralized
State-Endorsed Digital Identity is new and shiny. In this newsletter I dive into SEDI in more detail and consider where it fits...
Jun 3
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Dr Alan Mayo
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26. Enhance, Duplicate or Replace?
Three choices of how to rework Identity - let's make the choice wisely as it is crucial for societies everywhere,
May 19
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Dr Alan Mayo
25. The State of Identity Planetwise
I updated this on 2 June 2026 as I changed my terminology from Credential to Distributed Identity. One never stops learning...
Apr 5
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Dr Alan Mayo
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24. Identity Starts with People
Maori proverb: "He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata" In English, "What is the most important thing in the world? It is people…
Nov 5, 2025
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Dr Alan Mayo
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23. Identity is Centralized
Really - could this be true?
Sep 24, 2025
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Dr Alan Mayo
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22. Seven Challenges for Distributed Identity
Distributed Identity, an alternative to Networked Identity, has seven challenges. (updated 2 June 2026 as I changed terminology to use Distributed…
Sep 20, 2025
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Dr Alan Mayo
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21. The Plummet
How did that happen? We were promised a reusable Digital Identity ecosystem, and now we are getting digital copies of documents on a smartphone?
Jul 31, 2025
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Dr Alan Mayo
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