LATAM Community DID

Follow the Patterns of Commons Ideology and the GAIN Trust Registry parameters to promote the adoption and benefits of a LATAM Community DID

Msc Economics focused on Quantitative Finance, Incentives and Blockchain
January 2022: PhD in Management focusing in Community Policy

Abbreviations & Definitions:

• LATAM: Latin America
• SSI: Self Sovereign Identity
• DID: Decentralized Identifiers
• VCs: Verifiable Credentials
• MVP: Minimum Viable Product
• Patterns of Commoning: Tools for researching, sharing and applying knowledge with regards to common-pool resources. https://patternsofcommoning.org/about/
• GAIN Trust Registry: Initiative of digital engagement as key driver for economic growth - and inclusive participation that require access to high-trust identity verification services. https://gainforum.org/GAINWhitePaper.pdf

Atala PRISM Pioneer Program "Self-governance of Emergent Communities"

Use Case: LATAM Community DID

Why is this important?

1. Latin America is one of the unequal regions of the world. 
2. Latin America is the worst- performing region globally, second only to Sub-Saharan Africa. 
3. Adopting technologies in Latin America often comes from foreign countries rather than from within. This outside influence prevents exposure within the LATAM communities to self-governance, self-regulation, and a proper understanding of the communities needs.

Traditional commons literature often consider "subtractive" resources such as forests and fisheries where one person's use reduces the benefits available for another. Contrary to this, knowledge has been traditionally considered "nonsubtractive" since the more people who share useful knowledge, the greater the common good. (Hess & Ostrom, 2017) This proposal aims at increasing awareness of SSI/DID technologies through didactical and applied sharing of knowledge.

Project Introduction:

A basic course that promotes the adoption and benefits of linking communities by introducing the concepts of SSI and Patterns of Commoning to Latin American countries, a Community VC is issued upon completion, and stored at our partner "Open Source Credential Wallet". https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Open-Source-Credential-Wallet/382078-48088

Use the course structure to host six successful workshops to increase awareness of SSI/DID/Atala PRISM in the subsequent six months. Promote the adoption and DID usage on the local community hubs for memberships & educational workshop certificates in Cardano mainnet.

Working in coordination with our partner "DID for Cardano Indonesia Community" during the first semester of 2022, we will create the building blocks for the introduction of educational material through workshops, issuance of Community VCs, and the partnership with holder wallet. https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/DID-for-Cardano-Indonesia-Community/380911-48088

By joining forces under the same umbrella, we could integrate a comprehensive English Based WebApp MVP that could be named: "Cardano DID Community" that allows for new countries/regions/communities to join and follow our efforts with a standardized approach.

For the second semester of 2022, we would focus on delivering workshops to promote adoption and to invite more countries/regions/communities to use our approach for their own needs. By applying the knowledge acquired at the Atala PRISM Pioneer Program, we would give the community its first basic use case and allow for others to join and grow in a similar way.

Project Details:

The basic implementation of SSI/DID could be done via Atala Prism SDK on a web application. The users would interact with the following English MVP:

• Introduction to SSI/DID, benefits of its adoption and potential use cases in educational format
• Workshops and Upcoming Events (Roadmap)
• Potential use cases and partnerships within the community
• Dedicated Page for Active Communities: LATAM, Indonesia and invitation for newcomers

The Latin America campaign would be carried out with two small impact teams in Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro. Starting with friends and family in the largest economic hubs of Latin America.

SSI/DID Trust Diamond:

1. Issuer: LATAM Community DID
2. Holder: Members of LATAM Community DID @"Open Source Credential Wallet" https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Open-Source-Credential-Wallet/382078-48088
3. Verifier: Community & Course Staff 
4. Governance Authority: TBD (Could be Cardano DID Community)

What does success look like?

• If funded, we would work with our partners to create an accessible and standardized approach for any community to use the SSI/DID technologies.
• Increasing awareness of the benefits and capabilities both in terms of identity and community with a large-scale distribution strategy would allow for the inclusion of marginalized communities and the ownership of identity. 

Key Metrics & Goals

• Introductory Course completion and approval rate
• ->Complete 6 workshops with satisfactory approval rate
• Workshop assistance and participation rate
• ->Timely promotion in order to increase participation
• ->Onboard 300 members and issue corresponding VCs
• Increased interest in Introductory Course, Membership VC
• ->Promote the approach for the usage and benefits of new communities
• Partnerships and collaborations within Cardano and non-Cardano communities
• ->Onboard 15 community partnerships and 15 outside of the community

Supporting Statistics: (LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2021 @ OECD2021)

"A renewed social contract will be key to support the reforms needed to boost the recovery and overcome structural weaknesses in the region" (OECD, 2021)

"Harmonization, co‑ordination, and interoperability at the regional level are essential to facilitate the development of a digital single market, particularly in areas such as the protection of the consumer, personal data protection, digital identity, digital payments, digital values, transport and logistics standards, and tax regimes." (ECLAC and Internet & Jurisdiction, 2020)

• On average almost 50% of the population in LAC was dissatisfied with public education and 53% was dissatisfied with healthcare (Gallup, 2021)
• Latin American labour markets are traditionally informal, fragile and exclusive. More than half of LAC workers have informal jobs (OECD, 2020)
• Inequality, measured by the GINI coefficient, is estimated to have increased by 2.9% in the most unequal region in the world (Gallup, 2021)
• Only 38% of the regional population trusted their government (Gallup, 2021)
• More than 50% of Latam citizens believed that their government was performing poorly in tackling corruption (Transparency International, 2019)
• https://www.oecd.org/publications/latin-american-economic-outlook-20725140.htm

Schedule: January - December 2022

• January - March 2022
• Design introductory courses
• Design workshops
• Design & prototype VC (Expected for third week of February)
• First workshop batch and introductory course cohort (2 sessions)
• Coordination with partner wallet 

• April - July 2022
• Second workshop batch and introductory course cohort (4 sessions)
• Onboard 50+50 memberships and its subsequent VCs
• Include 5+5 partnerships within the community

• August - December 2022
• Onboard 100+100 memberships and its subsequent VCs
• Include 10+10 partnerships within the community and outside of the community 
• Workshop on a monthly basis with aims to introduce the basics, use cases and partnerships in the second semester of the year

Budget:

• Introductory Course & Workshops $4,000
• Issuer Pilot Project Developer(s) $3,000
• Verifier Pilot Project Developer(s) $3,000
• Console Management, Apps UX/ UI Design $3,000
• Project Coordination $5,000
• Marketing, Promotion Resources, English Based MVP WebApp $6,000
• Total LATAM Community DID Budget $24,000

Team & Partnerships:

We are open for collaborations.

Partners from Atala PRISM Pioneer Program:

1) Partnership and collaboration with Andreas Sosilo from "DID for Cardano Indonesia Community" @andreassosilo

• We will be collaborating with a standard introductory course that upon completion, allows a community VC to be issued.
• Promote online events, portray partnerships and use cases from the community and experience from other countries. 
• Promote and strengthen the collaboration and information sharing between several communities. 
• Please find his proposal here:
• https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/DID-for-Cardano-Indonesia-Community/380911-48088

2) Partnership and collaboration with Lance from "Open Source Credential Wallet" @LanceB

• We will partner with this talented team to use their open source credential wallet as the holder for the LATAM Community DID Members.
• Please find their proposal here:
• https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Open-Source-Credential-Wallet/382078-48088

3) New d-EdTech Platform for LatAm

• We will partner Jaime Martinez and his team to promote technical skills VCs for the Latin American countries.
• Please find their proposal here:
• https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/New-d-EdTech-Platform-for-LatAm/381053-48088

4) (APPP) Atala Prism Program Pioneers

• As part of the Atala PRISM pioneers cohort we will collaborate to create bottom-up use cases for SSI/DID technologies for the betterment of communities in accordance to the Patterns of Commoning and the Self-governance of Emergent Communities.

Important Notice:

• This proposal will be complemented by the LATAM Community DID Research proposal in the Grow Latin America, Grow Cardano challenge. We are a small impact team open for collaboration. Please refer to this proposal at:
• https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Latam-Community-DID-Research/381165-48088
• Proposal Site and Documentation:
• https://sites.google.com/view/latamcommunitydid/home