18 Explaining the value of SSI to business

 

John Phillips

    To realize the true potential of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), we need to be able to explain the value that SSI represents to organizations and people. We need to provide a compelling, understandable, and truthful account of what SSI can mean, so our audience sees the value in it for themselves. This is as essential to SSI’s success as the technology that underpins it. We selected this as the first chapter in part 4 because it provides guidance on how best to communicate the value of SSI to business leaders. It is also important for technologists, who can use these ideas to better understand business goals. The author, John Phillips (of 460degrees, based in Australia), speaks from experience—he is one of the world’s leading communicators about the value of SSI. Lucky enough to start his career working with international space agencies and living in a number of countries, John is now directing his efforts and passion toward better digital trust for all.

    18.1 How might we best explain SSI to people and organizations?

    18.1.1 Failed experiment 1: Leading with the technology

    18.1.2 Failed experiment 2: Leading with the philosophy

    18.1.3 Failed experiment 3: Explaining by demonstrating the tech

    18.1.4 Failed experiment 4: Explaining the (world’s) problems

    18.2 Learning from other domains

    18.3 So how should we best explain the value of SSI?

    18.4 The power of stories

    18.5 Jackie’s SSI story

    18.5.1 Part 1: The current physical world

    18.5.2 Part 2: The SSI world—like the current physical world, but better

    18.5.3 Part 3: Introducing the Sparkly Ball1—or, what’s wrong with many current digital identity models

    18.6 SSI Scorecard for apartment leasing

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