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Towards a Trustful Digital World : Exploring Self-Sovereign Identity Ecosystems (2021)

Laatikainen, G., Kolehmainen, T., Li, M., Hautala, M., Kettunen, A., & Abrahamsson, P. (2021). Towards a Trustful Digital World : Exploring Self-Sovereign Identity Ecosystems. In PACIS 2021 : Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. Information Systems (IS) for the Future (Article 19). Association for Information Systems. https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2021/19

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All authors or editors: Laatikainen, Gabriella; Kolehmainen, Taija; Li, Mengcheng; Hautala, Markus; Kettunen, Antti; Abrahamsson, Pekka

Parent publication: PACIS 2021 : Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. Information Systems (IS) for the Future

Place and date of conference: Online, 12.-14.7.2021

eISSN: 2689-6354

Publication year: 2021

Article number: 19

Publisher: Association for Information Systems

Publication country: United States

Publication language: English

Persistent website address: https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2021/19

Publication open access: Not open

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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/78407

Web address of parallel published publication (pre-print): https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.15131

Abstract

In the current global situation—burdened by, among others, a vast number of people without formal identification, digital leap, the need for health passports and contact tracking applications—providing private and secure digital identity for individuals, organizations and other entities is crucial. The emerging self-sovereign identity (SSI) solutions rely on distributed ledger technologies and verifiable credentials and have the potential to enable trustful digital interactions. In this human-centric paradigm, trust among actors can be established in a decentralized manner while the identity holders are able to own and control their confidential data. In this paper, we build on observations gathered in a field study to identify the building blocks, antecedents and possible outcomes of SSI ecosystems. We also showcase opportunities for researchers and practitioners to investigate this phenomenon from a wide range of domains and theories, such as the digital innovation ecosystems, value co-creation, surveillance theory, or entrepreneurship theories

Keywords: identity (societal properties); identity (mental objects); identification (recognition); electronic identification; innovations; digital technology; trust; reliability (general)

Free keywords: decentralized identity; self-sovereign identity; innovation ecosystems; digital trust

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Reporting Year: 2021

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