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Tribal DIDs=Indigenous Sovereignty

Problem

Tribal identity systems, in place for millennia, are not yet recognised by states/institutions creating national DIDs, excluding indigenous population’s pre-colonial norms, rules, rights & sovereignty

Solution

Using AtalaPrism SDK, integrate DID wallet features in Āhau, the tribal identity DApp made for, by, with Maori, indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) to enable issuance of verifiable credentials

Total to date

This is the total amount allocated to Tribal DIDs=Indigenous Sovereignty. 4 out of 5 milestones are complete

$352,800

Total funds requested

Distributed: $239,400

Remaining: $113,400

04/23

07/23

11/23

01/24

02/24

Complete

In Progress

To be completed

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541

Total Votes

₳130M

Votes Yes

₳109M

Votes No

About this idea

access adoption blockchain collaboration community-building dapps developers infrastructure

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Introduction

In Aotearoa (New Zealand) the state has drafted a new Digital Identity Services Trust Bill that will define the rules for how institutions and organisations in Aotearoa will recognise and trust someone's digital identity. It intends to revolutionise how Banks, Universities, Health care providers, Schools, Passport issuers and other public services work.

The draft Bill states that the “Rules will incorporate Te Ao Māori perspectives of identity” as part of its legislative purpose. To what extent this happens is still being determined. Our capability, as Maori, to develop our own systems of identity to be interoperable with other institutional identity systems will be a contributing factor.

This project proposes we develop a Tribal DID, in alignment with these draft Identity management standards to empower Maori to have their Tribal Identity practises recognised by organisations and institutions and their rights to sovereign identity, as Maori, and its legitimacy, enshrined.

Why its (very) important

This is an exciting time for our Maori communities. The Government (of the last 200+ years) has the opportunity and responsibility to organise itself to operate alongside existing Tribal governance systems, practices and authority. The work Āhau, the Indigenous Identity DApp, has undertaken over the last 4 years is a significant step towards ensuring this opportunity is realised.

Āhau is well on the way to enabling its communities to be recognised issuers of verifiable identity credentials. Enabling this important technological advancement to take place will speed along the future which delivers Maori the self-determination and self-governance we have the right to.

Āhau is a scuttlebutt based dapp used by tribal communities to identify and register community members, preserve cultural heritage and histories, and grow individual and collective identity. Our next step is to use AtalaPrism’s SDK to integrate digital identity wallet features in the Āhau DApp.

Our goal is to provide tribal communities with the ability to issue verifiable credentials to their tribal members. Tribal members will then be able to present these credentials to third parties to use as a reliable and trusted form of identity verification.

Context

Māori (indigenous people of New Zealand) are a collectivist society connected by tribal groupings called Whanau (immediate family), Hapu (extended family groups), and Iwi (‘tribes’ of broader, related whanau). In the early years of our colonisation, during the British invasion of Aotearoa, the English sought to establish a treaty agreement known as Te Tiriti o Waitangi or The Treaty of Waitangi between The British Crown and the tribal chiefs of Aotearoa.

Many chiefs of Aotearoa, agreed to peace and signed Te Titiri in good faith so that the Crown would cease unlawful attacks, confiscation of Māori land, and enforce greater control over English settlers. Te Tiriti also provided for the right to Rangatiratanga or self-determination and self-governance for Maori.

However, the British did not honour Te Tiriti, and today Aotearoa, now named New Zealand (by the New Zealand Company which made a business of colonising Aotearoa) is now governed by a Government setup by the English Crown. Less than 5% of the land remains in Māori hands.

While Aotearoa bears this dark history, the Crown has established a process for reconciliation and apologies. As Māori we are now progressively imbuing our cultural systems (with varying degrees of friction and speed) into legislation, courts, education, health and many other parts of society.

Identity is foundational for Māori communities in identifying tribal members and how we connect with each other. Māori identity is also foundational to the future of our society as a whole. Our people being able to prove who they are, via a means which is aligned culturally to them, is a crucial element of all future interactions aiming to restore trust; to instantiate indigenous human rights; and, with integrity, live up to the egalitarian image our country has acquired globally.

Providing a solution for tribal communities to reaffirm their cultural systems of identity and integrate this with the Digital Identity Services Trust Framework is critical to the future we want to create. It will not only acknowledge Māori’s right to establish and confirm their identity, it will also provide an opportunity for institutional models of identity to expand their understanding and systems of identity to be more inclusive of community issued credentials.

This advancement can and (we hope) will, have ripples across the world. Community issued credentials are applicable to many people, in many contexts and countries, not least to those who are part of this Project Catalyst community.

Use case one: Trusted by Tribes

Working with a number of related Māori communities we will design the process for issuing, presenting and verifying, Verifiable Credentials (VC’s) in alignment with tribal identity processes.

These VC’s will be provided from one tribe and will be accepted by another tribes as a relying party

Use case two: Trusted by Government

After successfully designing and understanding the tribal processes for verifying identity and issuing VC’s, we will work with the Government rules development team to facilitate the design of the process of accepting tribal VC’s as a verified form of identity.

Use case three: Trusted by Organisations

After designing the process so that the Government can recognise tribal communities as trusted sources of identity, and enabling Āhau to be recognised as a DID infrastructure provider we’ll then work with a number of organisations to facilitate the design of the process for them accepting VC’s through Āhau as a recognised form of Identity verification.

Identity Compliance

The team from digital legal systems labs will lead the testing of the rules design process against the digital identity standards and rules. This will be developed in a way that not only helps Āhau to identify areas of compliance but also is a tool that other identity systems can use to support the development of identity systems in Aotearoa.

AtalaPrism in Āhau

We will have a developer participate in the AtalaPrism Pioneer Programme to get early access to the SDK. Our team will then develop the frontend and backend for dapp integration with the SDK

Identity Pilots

With the technical infrastructure in place we will roll out a number of tests with the different use cases mentioned above.

Application rollout

Upon successful delivery of the pilots we will initiate an application wide rollout to deliver features to all communities and users.

References

https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/Government/2021/0078/latest/LMS659576.html

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3446983.3446992#:~:text=A%20DID%20acts%20as%20an,for%20undoubtedly%20proving%20an%20identity

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

This proposal supports the Challenge to develop “a thriving ecosystem of different DApps, products and integrations for the community to use that increasingly become the better alternatives over current centralized providers” in two important ways.

First, most importantly, Tribal DIDs are not only a ‘better alternative’, they are a human right.

Integrating an authentic indigenous identity platform for people who maintain ancient polycentric governance practices with Cardano products will be significant.

Delivering Mori Tribes with Sovereign Identity which is interoperable with existing centralised systems provides a model for, and can develop into, far more advanced solutions for many colonised people.

Āhau is mainly used by indigenous communities in Aotearoa but is also being explored in other parts of the world. This solution, built on top of Cardano will enable a new audience, critical to the establishment of true diversity in its ecosystem, to connect with the potential and opportunities Cardano offers.

Second, the intention of developing this product, using draft legislation being proposed by a state is an important use case for Cardano.

Presenting a working DApp to a Government which meets all the requirements that that Government is proposing in its draft bill will enhance Cardano’s brand and reputation. Demonstrating without doubt that Cardano’s intention really is “to make the world better for all”.

We’ve already demonstrated we do what we say we’ll do, and have achieved significant success to date with Āhau.

We look forward to taking next steps towards that better world as part of the Project Catalyst DApps and Integrations Challenge cohort.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Technology Risk

AtalaPrism SDK is still in it early phases so its hard to tell how stable it is, and how it easily it will intergrate to with Āhau. To mitigate this risk we will be participating in the pioneer programme working directly with the AtalaPrism team to solve technical challenges we face. We will also continue to look for alternative DID stacks as part of our technical research

Communications Risk

The project has three core contributing teams. This includes the design team, the development team, the legal team. The coordination and commuinciation between these teams needs to be clear to ensure that we are all working towards the same clear objectives. For this reason we have an experienced project manager as a part of the team to ensure that the coordination and communication between teams is clear with regular checkins and updates.

Scope Creep

With every digital project its important not to let the scope of the project grow outside of the initial project objectives. Our product owner will be responsible for ensuring that the design, development and legal teams stay within the requirements of the project in an agile manner with small functional slices being developed and delivered throughout the project.

Compliance Risk

This projects aims to demonstrate how traditional cultural identity systems meet Government and industry standards and can be interoperable with newly proposed systems. One risk around this project is that the cultural practises of identity management and recognition do not align with the Government and business standards.

This risk will be mitigated by the legal team who’ll identify areas of noncompliance and provide recommendations for how the cultural systems may be changed to comply. The project also aims to provide recommendations that communicate to the Government digital identity standards design team how the proposed standards themselves may be changed to align with cultural systems, in accordance with the goals of the legislation and rights of indigenous people.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Partners

Tribal communities and members
DIA (The NZ Government Department of Internal Affairs – births, deaths, marriages department)
A Bank, A Credit union, Easycrypto

Systems/teams

Phase one: Discovery and Design

3 months Oct – Dec

Discovery/ Design
Confirm project team and partners
Project manager
Digital legal systems labs
Tribal communities
Department of Internal Affairs
Industry partners
User stories defining and UX
use case one trusted by tribes
use case two trusted by Government
use case three trusted by industry
wireframing of UI
the issuing of VC’s
the storage and management of VC’s
the receipt of VC’s
the verifying of VC’s
the sharing of VC’s
and a history of VC’s
Identity compliance research
Research identity rules and standards
Identify and define compliance measures
Technology research
AtalaPrism Developer Pioneer programme participation
Technology design and speciifcations

Phase two: Development

3 months Jan – Mar

Develop backend prototype
Integrate into Āhau
Develop UI
Develop API
Develop backend modules
Develop techincal documentation
build cardono into mobile app (EXTRA)
Node-js-mobile environment
build pilot installers
Run internal testing
Internal testing with team and our team tribes
Small adaptations of UI
develop process for legal compliance
Identify and model the relevant sections of the Digital-identity-services-trust-framework-bill
Analyse compliance challenges between the bill and Tribal DID’s processes.
Document the compliance challenges and communicate that to:
Tribal partners
Ahau project development team
The Government drafting teams

Phase three: Piloting

3 months Apr – Jun

Pilot use cases
Use case one: trusted by tribes
Tribes can issue VC’s to verified members
Tribal members can present VC’s to a relying party
Related tribes accept tribe issued VC’s a recognised source of identity
Use case two: trusted by Government
Government can accept tribe issued VC’s a recognised source of identity
Government can issue VC’s to tribal members
Use case three: trusted by industry
Industry partner can accept tribe issued VC’s a recognised source of identity

Phase four: Deployment

3 months Jul – Sept

Wallet features will be published application wide
User guides and videos will be developed to support use and feature onboarding and communicate the potential use cases for Māori communities
Application support will be provided for new uses

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Budget Summary

Comprehensive budget

https://clik.vc/didindigenoussovereignty

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Āhau NZ Ltd is a Māori owned and operated business in Aotearoa (New Zealand) building solutions by our people, with our people and for our people. Our team of developers have been working together on our distributed application for three years.

The team also includes project managers responsible for coordinating project partners and team ensuring the project remains on track in alignment with the budget and timeframes; and, a pool of contract user research, design, testing experts and community educators who work closely with our communities to ensure the product is aligned with tribal custom, practice and authority.

The team is led by:

Ben Tairea

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-tairea/

Ben is Kaiwhakahaere/CEO of Āhau. He is also the Deputy Chair on the Executive Council of Digital Identity New Zealand. Ben is experienced with the product and community development required to deliver on the project and the Digital Identity requirements and environment for which this solution will need to land to be a recognised identity solution in Aotearoa (New Zealand).

He is Project Lead and Product Owner responsible for the overall development and UX/UI design along with the implementation of the product by the community and industry partners.

Mix Irving

https://twitter.com/whimful

Lead Developer for Āhau, and Technical Lead for this project Mix has been programming for 10+ years, with 6+ of those working on distributed systems and secure scuttlebutt. He is responsible for the technical design, development and integration with the existing application. Mix will lead the development team.

Hamish Fraser

https://hamish.dev

Rules-as-code developer for Digital Legal Systems Labs. Previous experience working in both Central and Local Government, researcher involved in the Legislation as Code report, funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation. Owner of Software development company Verb (20 years). Hamish is responsible for the analysis and design of the rules-as-code components, documenting the compliance challenges and communicating those to enable product development.

Tom Barraclough

https://www.brainbox.institute/projects

Co-founder and principal consultant at Brainbox, Tom works at the intersection of law, public policy and digital technologies. He has led multiple public interest research projects including the Legislation as Code project, funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation, and has co-founded the Digital Legal Systems Lab. Responsible for the compliance and integration of Government identity standards and the development of compliance tools to support identity processes. This role will also work with the Project Lead and Product Owner to develop recommendations and advocate for any required changes to standards.

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes, identity is just the first step in self-determination/self-governance for Māori and other indigenous communities.

We would like to integrate with DAO governance and finance systems in the future and think that the Cardano ecosystem could provide the tools, resourcing and systems to support these future objectives.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

Yes

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

Yes

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

Phase one: Discovery and Design

Milestones

Confirm team and project partners
Outcome
Team agreements in place
Partner agreements in place
Responsibility
Project manager
Method of sharing
We will provide a project update in the townhall
UX designs for identity processes
Outcome
design diagram for DID exchange with tribes
design diagram for DID exchange with Government
design diagram for DID exchange with industry
Responsibility
Product owner
Method of sharing
Designs will be shared via our repo
UI wireframes
Outcome
Application designs for issuing DID’s
Application designs for the storage and management of DID’s
Application designs for the receipt of VC’s
Application designs for the verifying of VC’s
Application designs for the sharing of VC’s
Application designs for viewing the history of VC’s
Responsibility
Product owner
Method of sharing
Designs will be shared via our repo
Identity compliance research
Outcome
Report on the Bill with recommendations
Responsibility
Rules as code and Legal Lead
Method of sharing
Report will be available via the project repo
Technology research
Outcome
AtalaPrism Developer Pioneer programme participation
Technology specifications and designs
Responsibility
Technical lead
Method of sharing
Via the project repo

Phase two: Development

Milestones

Develop backend prototype
Outcome
CLI application prototype using for issuing, sending and verifying DID’s
Responsibility
Technical lead
Method for sharing
Via the project repo
Integration into Āhau DApp
Outcomes
Develop frontend components
Develop API
Develop backend modules
Develop technical documentation
Responsibility
Technical lead
Method for sharing
Via the project repo
Build pilot installers
Outcomes
Create separate installers for pilot teams
Responsibility
Technical lead
Method for sharing
Available via the project repo
Develop process for legal compliance
Outcomes
Expression of compliance rules in a Rules-as-code format
Responsibility
Rules as code and Legal Lead.
Method for sharing
Available via the project repo

Phase three: Piloting

Milestones

Deliver pilot use cases
Outcomes
Deliver pilot for use case one: Recognised DID’s between tribes
Deliver pilot use case two: Recognised DID’s with Government
Deliver pilot use case three: Recognised DID’s with industry partners
Responsibility
Project manager
Method of sharing
For each pilot a report will be written up defining the outcomes. These will be available via the project repo and Ahau website.

Phase four: Deployment

Milestones

Wallet features will be published application wide
Outcomes
DID wallet feature will be available in public DApp by all tribal communities and members
User guides and videos will be developed to support use and feature onboarding
Responsibility
Product owner
Method of sharing
Via the DApp and project repo and website

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

Tribal communities in Aotearoa (New Zealand) will have the ability to issue Tribal DID’s that can be recognised by Government, institutions and organisations as an authoritative source of identity.
Indigenous peoples around the world can also have their human rights honoured and do the same.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is an entirely new project.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

16 - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

16.10 - Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements

16.3 - Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all

16.6 - Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels

Monthly report

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November 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Hangarau / Technical - completed building auto-issuance of credentials to new group-members (for tribes that have set up issuance config) - completed auto-presentaion of a credential to help strengthen registration with other tribes - initial in-team testing of functionality in test network - UI work revealing the credentials - initial work building the libraries into Android Client - bug reports + feature requests to AtalaPrism team - call with AtalaPrism team offering feedback, and describing our needed use case (see below) - call with DID.coop

Evidence

https://gitlab.com/ahau/prototypes/ssb-atala-prism

Explanation

Repo links: – code in testing in Ahau – early QA done – adding functionality to Android app – blockers with Pluto building for mobile Google doc: – Simplified setup form for tribal administrators (part of ploycentric trust framework mesh)

September 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

— Working with Partners *In the “Trusted by Tibes” use case, our work with partners has continued, while the Development team have been huddled, working though technical challenges. *Trbal partner workshops have reached the halfway mark (of those planned for the current workplan). Attendees have been able to install and begin to use the Āhau app, which enables them to begin to curate the basis of their whanau connections – the traditional validation of their identity. *The “Trusted by Government” use-case, our first meeting with the design and technical team working on the Realme (https://clik.vc/realme) product for the Department of Internal Affairs. We discussed the opportunity to develop a pilot and agreed to meet again to codesign a programme of work. –Develop backend prototype *We continue to be blocked from delivering our POA for Phase 3. We want to be able to issue Verifiable Credentials, but have the following hard requirements: - Infrastructure Sovereignty - data about people is held by the people - authority to create VCs must be controlled by the people - not run by some company (e.g. Ahau Ltd) - not hosted by some "cloud" provider (e.g. AWS) - keys are held in community - accessibility, maintainability: runs on everyday computers - Resilience - no single computer failing results in loss - any computer dying or meeting house hosting one burning down should be recoverable - the Issuer is currently a single point of failure in this sense - no single human being inaccessible should cause problems - multiple kaitiaki/custodians/admins should be able to issue - if one kaitiaki dies, other should be able to continue A problem we've hit with the Issuer in AtalaPrism is that it's a logical centralisation. It doesn't seem designed to support multiple centers of authority (multiple admins)? It seems designed to have be a singular instance? We're looking for ways to safely navigate issuing credentials which fit within our values + needs. Work done since our last monthly report has included meetings with the Atala PRISM team and research work to find a way to solve the challenges above. Please refer to Statement of Milestones (SOM) for project plan to understand these activities context and relevance here: https://clik.vc/tdids2

Evidence

https://clik.vc/f9tdidspoa3update

Explanation

https://clik.vc/f9tdidspoa3update:

September 4, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

– The project formally started on the Oct 3, 2022. *Report #1 Nov 25, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport1 *Report #2 Dec 20, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport2 *Report #3 Jan 24, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport3 *Report #4 Feb 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport4 *Report #5 Mar 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport5 *Report #6 Apr 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport6 *Report #7 May 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport7 *Report #8 Jun 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport8 *Report #9 Jul 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport9 — Working with Partners *We’re very pleased to report the work done with our lead tribal partner in July has seen the planning and commencement of a schedule of workshops, weekly, to continue our community-led development. - Open, weekly in person sessions include the CEO and Website administrator from our Lead tribal partner organisation and attendance has already grown to include a dozen other tribe members. - The Website Registration Form has launched and is being tested, with bugs and changes identified by whanau at the commencement of our weekly sessions. - At our weekly trainings we have begun teaching hapu-whanau how to use our platform and are preparing them for phase 4 piloting. - Feedback so far, direct from participants: –”I finally understand how Āhau works. Thank you for simplifying the tech for me.” –”I went down South with my whakapapa books, usb sticks, laptop so that when my moko asked me to show them their whakapapa, I had to pull them all out. The word that comes up for me is potential. I’ll be using Āhau to share [whakapapa] with my moko now.” –”I agree with Whaea. Potential. Technology and I don’t get along. It’s why I’ve brought my niece with me.” –”We need to make use of this tool.” –”I hadn’t heard of Āhau and I wasn’t sure what to expect coming here to help Uncle but now I’m excited for my kids to be able to capture our whakapapa and stories for them.” –”Omg, is it finished already? I wish it was longer. My son is the techy not me but I see how easy it was to connect and now me and mum can start working on our whakapapa for the launch of our marae in November.” - Our team participated in ‘Digital Trust Taumata Conference’ building relationships with industry & government connecting with organisations in the digital identity ecosystem in Aotearoa which has added further opportunity to realise in our Ecosystem governance work in the future (https://digitaltrustsummit.co.nz/). *The “Trusted by Government” use-case follow-ups, with parties from the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) Digital Identity project team, has finally resulted in meetings commencing in September regarding a pilot project. They have just issued the “Transition to Verifiable Credentials Technical Whitepaper” (https://clik.vc/transitiontovcs) which provides useful insight into their approach. *In the “Trusted by Relying Parties” we have chosen to develop a Fund 10 proposal for the Project Catalyst community to vote on, working with Continnum Loop (Darrell O’Donnell), Studentreader.io (Tony Rose), 2Shakes (Mike Kelly, KYC provider) and yūmi.ai (Rob O’Brien, Regenerative Finance/Accounting Infrastucture provider) to undertake an Ecosystem and Trust registry development process to explore, draft and get buy-in on governance frameworks once our proof of concept is complete at the end of 2023. –Develop backend prototype *Our team have found integrating SSB with the Atala Prism SDK challenging (some design choices not compatible with our use case) and need to build additional infrastructure at our end in order to intergrate. We are behind schedule with regard to POA for Phase 3 and are blocked from delivering until Atala Prism is licenced and outsourced or an alternative resolution can be developed in collaboration with the Project Catalyst / Atala Prism tribes. Please refer to Statement of Milestones (SOM) for project plan to understand these activities context and relevance here: https://clik.vc/tdids2

Evidence

https://clik.vc/f9tdidspoa3update https://clik.vc/decolonisingfincom

Explanation

https://clik.vc/f9tdidspoa3update: Links to work-in-progress and video explanation of challenges and blockers https://clik.vc/decolonisingfincom:

July 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

– The project formally started on the Oct 3, 2022. *Report #1 Nov 25, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport1 *Report #2 Dec 20, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport2 *Report #3 Jan 24, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport3 *Report #4 Feb 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport4 *Report #5 Mar 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport5 *Report #6 Apr 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport6 *Report #7 May 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport7 *Report #8 Jun 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport8 — Working with Partners *We’re really happy to report its been a busy month with community-led development. We have been co-designing and developing kanohi ki te kanohi (face-to-face) with our primary Tribal Partner (1) and they have been upskilling us in how they make their decisions around identifying and sharing individual and collective data, permissions, and governance. This has only been possible due to our whanau having had the information (over the last 5 months, as part of this project) that they’ve needed to decide how their tribal processes transfer, specifically to the digital realm. *The “Trusted by tribes” Tribal Partner 1 - Papa Hapū are moving from this process design and development to implementation with the tribal registration process including weekly in person session with CEO and Website administrator. *Processes have been codified into web forms to link website, to existing app (and ultimately to DApp). *We’ve setup ‘training tribes’ within Ahau Platform for ‘groups’ with access to certain information. ‘Training tribes’ we use to show and practice the registration process steps. We refine, ask questions, e.g.; should it be human step or platform step, why and what's the decision criteria which is shared with our devs. *Its important to note; this work is only ever done at the speed of the community itself. Our entire dev team has been engaged in the work, with one of the team onsite. We have spent additional time in this area, which will continue, primarily because our whanau at the Papa Hapū have had the availability, and opportunity to work with us has been driving towards an important milestone. The launch with tribal members of initial registration system which populates the Tribe administration registry on Saturday 15 July. *As a consequence of this work we will continue to foster the wider hapū community buy-in as we now have with three new tribal members lined up to undertake training with on their new registry starting at the beginning of August. *Tribal Partner 2 - Ngai Tahu and Tribal Partner 3 - Ngāpuhi will engage again subsequent to the technical development work to produce a PoC completing with Tribal Partner 1. *The “Trusted by Government” follow-up with parties from the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) engaged in this project (to discuss next steps when ministry budget is confirmed) are still planned however, were deferred to August. *In the “Trusted by Relying Parties” as we began to layout AML/CFT KYC processes for VC’s having identified the lack of liability/safeharbour policy design in our jurisdiction, we discussed this with our Digital Legal Systems Lab team and agreed that this issue is beyond the scope of (our team, and) this project. In response, to continue our project in the area of relying parties, we engaged in deeper discussion with experts based in Canada (met through the Atala Prism Beta programme, Continnuum Loop). Their recommendation was to undertake an Ecosystem Development process to explore and draft ecosystem governance frameworks and test indicative agreements and standards with ecosystem members. *Team decision around undertaking this work was to package it in a separate project which will avoid us having to slow down our dev work for the PoC and delivering our work for our community. The necessary engagement with the three regulatory bodies currently engaged with KYC compliance (Financial Markets Authority, Department of Justice, alongside DIA) and other ecosystem members is a significant piece of work, resulting in Fund 10 Project Catalyst Proposal: https://clik.vc/decolonisingfincom. — Technology research *The team are on schedule to reach their expected outcome and extend into some early deliverables for Phase 3 and 4 of this project. *Now, when registration of a whanau member occurs, once processed by a kaitiaki, results in an associated profile created for the group according to the requirements of the Hapū. NOTE, the person registering will not have their own Ahau account. If a person is expecting that, they will complete the registration with the Ahau app. V1 which will connect web registrations to the Ahau software V2 which will enable verifiable presentations as apart of the registration process. (See evidence for link UI and live form and back end UI) – Develop process for legal compliance *Due to delay with NZ Government working partners and lack of clarity around ecosystem trust frameworks the templates the Digital Legal Systems Lab team have created a repository of template examples for compliance, drawing from jurisdictions where there are some similarities (Australia, etc.) (See Work in progress board evidence for link). –Develop backend prototype *Team are now working with AtalaPrism’s tribe to integrate and are head down on pairing sessions with their SSI/Cardano experts. Please refer to Statement of Milestones (SOM) for project plan to understand these activities context and relevance here: https://clik.vc/tdids2

Evidence

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1 https://clik.vc/tdidsart1 https://clik.vc/ahauwebregorepo1 https://clik.vc/ahauwebregorepo1

Explanation

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1: Work in progress reporting board https://clik.vc/ahauwebregorepo1: References to templates for compliance with DISTF https://clik.vc/ahauwebregorepo1: Gitlab repo of registration and kaitiaki verification development https://clik.vc/decolonisingfincom:

June 21, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Evidence

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1 https://clik.vc/ahauwebregorepo1 https://clik.vc/govis23slides https://clik.vc/govis23recording

Explanation

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1: Work in progress reporting board https://clik.vc/ahauwebregorepo1: Gitlab repo of registration and kaitiaki verification development https://clik.vc/govis23slides and https://clik.vc/govis23recording:

May 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Evidence

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1

Explanation

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1:

April 21, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Key activities for period: Mar 20 – Apr 20 – The project formally started on the Oct 3, 2022. *Report #1 Nov 25, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport1 *Report #2 Dec 20, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport2 *Report #3 Jan 24, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport3 *Report #4 Feb 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport4 *Report #5 Mar 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport5 — Working with Partners * Continued working with participants in the “Trusted by tribes” use case Māori tribes with whom we are designing the process for issuing, presenting and verifying, Verifiable Credentials (VC’s) in alignment with tribal identity processes. https://clik.vc/tribaldidsvcprocess * The “Trusted by Government” use case, the project team’s legal experts took a further working meeting with Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) DISTF lead, prior to the bill passing its 3rd reading in NZ Govt’s Parliamentary process, to discuss move forward plan (dependant on govt budget allocation for public servant participation) * In the“Trusted by Relying Parties” we workshopped avenues for applying DIDs/VC’s in the hierarchy of legislation which includes AML/CFT KYC process and began to scope where to make proposals to the DIA re: running pilot projects and draft compliance templates for issuers and relying parties. * Alot of work done compiling results of legal research, including; Questions to be resolved re: DISTF Draft Rules https://clik.vc/questionsdistf. DISTF feedback for NZ Govt. Department of Internal Affairs – which Includes a proposal for a new rule to bring the DISTF in line with Te Tiriti o Waitangi: https://clik.vc/maoridistffeedback *Curated initial requirements for pre-assessment DISTF tool/suite of tools to allow all use-cases to answer questions about their identity services and then take that information to compile the documentation and recommended actions for DISTF compliance. Possible tools to be developed in response to the rules: https://clik.vc/preassessmentdistftools * Produced and conducted webinar: What is Digital Identity and what does this mean for Māori? Āhau’s team co-ordinated 6 panel members, runsheet, questions and MC’d the event. Digital Identity New Zealand. Event participation: 252 registered, 300+ attended. The video recording is not yet available publicly, however links here to voice recording: https://clik.vc/maorididwebinarmp3 ; Transcript: https://clik.vc/maorididwebinartrans ; and Slides (with images of panel members at the event): https://clik.vc/maorididwebinarslides – Technology research * Began working in earnest with the Atala Prism tribe on the Beta programme technical and business tracks, including accessing Office hours, Slack, Networking and tech deep-dive meetings, the new SDK and other participants * Initiated potential partnership with a recommended Atala Prism partner – Continuum Loop * Prepared pitch materials and participated in Atala Prism’s DragonsDIDen events (x3). Video of latest pitch: https://clik.vc/apdidenpitch (Timestamp for Tribal DIDs pitch – 1:27:10) **Please note: Access to this video is via Atala Prism team In conclusion, a great month. The Te Ao Māori Digital Identity Webinar; reports and recommendations on the Draft DISTF Bill, AML/CFT KYC regulations; introduction to the SDK and more work on the product architecture and specifications with the AtalaPrism Developer Pioneer programme; and, commencement of Wallet feature co-design with our tribal partners — all this together has represented big and positive steps forward for our team towards our goal – a working MVP by the end of the year. Please refer to Statement of Milestones (SOM) for project plan to understand these activities context and relevance here: https://clik.vc/tdids2

Evidence

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1 https://clik.vc/questionsdistf https://clik.vc/maorididwebinarmp3 https://clik.vc/maorididwebinartrans https://clik.vc/maorididwebinarslides

Explanation

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1: Work in progress reporting board https://clik.vc/questionsdistf: Questions to be resolved re: DISTF Draft Rules https://clik.vc/maorididwebinarmp3: Webinar Voice recording https://clik.vc/maorididwebinartrans: Webinar Transcript https://clik.vc/maorididwebinarslides:

March 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Key activities for period: Feb 20 – Mar 20 – The project formally started on the Oct 3, 2022. *Report #1 Nov 25, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport1 *Report #2 Dec 20, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport2 *Report #3 Jan 24, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport3 *Report #4 Feb 20, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport4 // Despite the recent natural disaster that struck Aotearoa where the TribalDID’s project is based, our team has been working diligently on our project. Many of the people who were affected by the cyclone personally or in their job, working to help people affected, are returning to their work and have reconnected with the work we are doing. We are happy to report that progress is being made, and we are moving forward with our objectives. // — Working with Partners * Participants in the “Trusted by tribes” use case are rebooking meetings to continue the work to understand current identity verification processes. * In the “Trusted by Government” use case, the project team’s legal experts have been given permission to share the analysis work done on the New Zealand government's DRAFT Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Bill. The team have proposed areas for development and an additional rule to the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) and the DISTF working group. Follow-up meetings to discuss the proposals are being organised. See “Identity compliance research” * To further the work in the “Trusted by Relying Parties” use case, members of the business ecosystem have taken part in a workshop to agree an outline of the benefits of SSI in the KYC/AML space to reduce compliance overhead. The goal is to make proposals to the DIA, including running pilot projects. * Our Stakeholder participants have now booked a date for the Maori Digital Identity webinar, and presenters are being confirmed. The webinar will take place 6 April 2023 organised in cooperation with Digital Identity New Zealand, our country’s SSI ecosystem’s professional association. It will be facilitated by Āhau’s, Cofounder and Relationship Director, Kaye Maree Dunn alongside Te Matarau - Māōri Tech Association who are collaborating on the panel discussion. The webinar title: What is Digital Identity and what does this mean for Māori? // – Identity compliance research * We have collated and verified the related rules to be included in SSI compliance. * Documented requirements to comply to the draft rules as they stand. * Analysed compliance challenges between the bill and Tribal processes. * Identified and collated a preliminary definition of process for Tribes to address compliance issues (so any Marae can use this to address requirements that don't honour tikanga, kawa, Indegenous Data Sovereignty) * Completed 1st Draft: A guide to complying with the New Zealand Governments DRAFT Digital Identity Standards Trust Framework (DISTF) rules: https://clik.vc/distfguide * Submitted feedback for the New Zealand Government, Department of Internal Affairs on their DRAFT Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Rules https://clik.vc/distffeedbackdia * Created preliminary requirements for a suite if tools to enable Tribes to become Digital Identity Services providers and comply with DRAFT DISTF rules https://clik.vc/distfdevelopment * First workshop with four AML/KYC partners Westpac, Forsyth Bar, NZREI, 2Shakes, Brainbox completed based on initial research into opportunities and overlaps between DRAFT DISTF, Privacy, and Financial regulations including Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act. * Follow-up workshop to merge IDV report processes for each part of the KYC/AML electronic verification done. // – Technology research * Our team our grateful for the assistance of the Project Catalyst Incubation team for their help connecting with Atala Prism and is now enrolled in the beta and has early access to the pioneer programme. A change request to move the objectives and key results related to this element of the work has been submitted to accommodate the delay. // – Wireframing * The core team has also finished the initial draft of architecture and UI for the project’s MVP. * User story definition, modelling and UX designs has commenced with information we have (in preparation for picking up with Tribal partners. * Initial wireframing of UI, for the issuing, storage and management, receipt, verifying, sharing and a history of VC’s is in progress. Further work will now be undertaken in Phase 2 (see change request note re: technology research above). // –We are pleased with these developments, given the challenging circumstances, and while the state of emergency and change of timing with Atala Prism engagement and programmes caused delays in Phase 1 of our project we have reorganised our OKR’s and are confident that we are making significant strides towards our goals. We want to take this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation for your unwavering support and encouragement throughout this challenging period. // In conclusion, we are committed to delivering on our project’s objectives, and we will continue to provide regular updates on our progress. Once again, we thank you for your continued support and best wishes. // Please refer to the original Statement of Milestones (SOM) for project plan to understand these activities context and relevance here: https://clik.vc/tdids

Evidence

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1

Explanation

The evidence shows the initial wireframing and feedback for DIA on the DISTF with regard to SSI.

February 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Key activities for period: Jan 1 – Feb 20 – The project formally started on the Oct 3, 2022. *Report #1 Nov 25, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport1 *Report #2 Dec 20, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport2 *Report #3 Jan 24, 2023 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport3 – NOTE 1: Aotearoa, New Zealand was hit by two destructive cyclone events in February. A state of national emergency has been declared. Lives, homes, livelyhoods and infrastructure, including power, water and internet connectivity have been lost in many parts of the North Island. Thousands are still unaccounted for. Our aroha goes to all those, including project team members and participants, who have been severely impacted by the events. The impact on this project has been that time has been lost and some planned engagements in all 3 use-cases have been effected, workshops, webinars deferred etc. while whanau and colleagues address immediate, disrupted circumstances they find themselves in and help each other. – NOTE 2: Engagement with Atala Prism (AP) for application design work to write DID/VC’s on chain has been deferred due to the anticipated launch of APv.2 and the new AP Pioneers programme before the end of this quarter. The TribalDIDs team have registered (multiple times) to secure a place in the programme however start dates have not been released and no notification on acceptance of application to participate has been received. While Head of Product – Identity, has given early access to the product overview (marketing website pages), without declarations regarding methods and sharing architecture and requirements its impossible to understand how the AP approach to the DIDs may or may not match/support the NZ Governments DISTF and other rules. It is also important for this project that AP is open source because a feature of our Tribal Identity project and Te Ao Maori (Maori world view) is Tino rangatiratanga (self-determination, sovereignty, independence, autonomy). A human right. So, the ability for whanau Maori to be able to change and update their infrastructure is key. — Continued working with Partners *Mana Enhancing and Non-disclosure Agreements for engagement with and the protection of Tribal processes finalised and presented. *Co-design project engagements deferred. – Tribal partner 1 (TP1) *Board Presentations completed (Slide Deck slides on https://clik.vc/tdidsart1) *Building whānau capability and capacity project approved and proposal developed – Tribal partner 2 (TP2) *Itearations continue on Draft registration policy – Tibal partner 3 (TP3) *New partner engaged and proposal being developed — Government partners: *DIA (DISTF team) *Early access to new whitepaper from Realme (NZ Government identity service) received *Review of whitepaper in progress, inconsistencies with DISTF, challenges and opportunities for Maori being identified — Government partners: MBIE (Māori Economic Development Unit (Te Kupenga) and the Enabling Māori Framework Fund (EMF) *Further work on engagement deferred. – Government partners: The Maori Land Court (MLC) *Met with a Senior Officer of the Court to understand process and current requirements regarding Identity and Land records, technologies in place or being introduced. *Mapping of current process underway for review by MLC prior to incorporation into application models. – Relying party partners: Real Estate Institute New Zealand, Banking and KYC/AML service providers *Planned workshop deferred. – Stakeholder partners: Te Matarau (https://www.tematarau.tech/), Digital Identity New Zealand (NZTech) *Further work by both partners on webinar happening asynchronously to distribute tasks (e.g.; hosts, engaging panelists, marketing) and agree proposed content and expected outcomes . *Date for webinar deferred until April. – Continued Identity compliance research *Changes contained in the revised rules and glossary added to research. *Realme proposals/review notes for NZ Government DIDs being incorporated *Development of a notion site containing step-by-step instructions for Tribal entities, as understood from the proposed DISTF bill and other standards and regulations (distributed across various websites), in progress. Will be used in engagement with use-case partners in deferred workshops (screen grabs on https://clik.vc/tdidsart1) – Extended link library (SSI): https://clik.vc/ssilinklibrary – NOTE 3: The work on this project (and the Regulation-as-code for DApps project https://clik.vc/regulationascodefordapps) has further highlighted to team members (some of which span both) the challenges and inconsistencies of legislation and regulation which is not written in both machine and human readable forms. Based on many years of work in this field and the knowledge further honed in these two projects the following blog was posted in January: https://clik.vc/lawascodelove. It includes an offer to opensource a model for granular referencing of legislation suitable for computer systems and further engage through the Digital Legal Systems Lab launched in conjuction (https://dlslab.nz/

Evidence

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1

Explanation

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January 24, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Key activities for period: Dec 1 – Dec 31 The project formally started on the Oct 3, 2022. Report #1 Nov 25, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport1 Report #2 Dec 20, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport2 – Continued working with Partners *Co-design project engagement commenced – how partners work together, expectations, outcomes *Updated drafts and are presenting Mana Enhancing and Non-disclosure Agreements for engagement with and the protection of Tribal processes. – Work with confirmed Tribal partners: **Tribal partner 1 (TP1) *Draft Tribal Registration policy updated (still work in progress)... We've moved to version 1.2. We experienced a little delay on getting this done due to end of year disruption. TP1 relies on volunteers who aren't full in the know of the organisation so working with Chief Executive to get this completed in 2023. Weekly in-office time to continue in 2023. *We've anonymised the TP1 Registration Process and translated te reo Māori words into English for it to be viewed on our reporting evidence miro board. **Tribal partner 2 (TP2) Initial meeting with Tribal Partner 2 to introduce engagement, agreements (MEA/NDA), and design process. *Next steps to deep dive into their registration process in Jan/Feb. – Work with confirmed Government partners: **DIA (DISTF team) *Updates and clarifications received and included in design process **MBIE (Māori Economic Development Unit (Te Kupenga) and the Enabling Māori Framework Fund (EMF) *Project update supplied to MBIE. Further work to do on engagement in Jan/Feb. – Second Stakeholder partner confirmed: *Te Matarau (https://www.tematarau.tech/) – Work with Stakeholder partners: *Initial conversation with Digital Identity New Zealand (NZTech) and Te Matarau to cohost webinar successful. *Prepared proposal for partners based on design of event in November, including content scope, shortlisted presenters/panel, and project plan for Maori Digital Identity webinar. – Continued Identity compliance research *DIA advised changes contained in the rules and glossary based on feedback received on the previous version, and from rules testing. They include updates in relation the ‘Identification Management’ and ‘Sharing and Facilitation’ categories, such as the inclusion of a verifiable credential standard. *Asked by DIA to review these rules and how they align with our digital identity services, as part of the Trust Framework ecosystem. *The Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Bill is making its way through New Zealand’s Parliament and is currently at the Committee of the Whole House stage. *In anticipation of the Bill receiving Royal Assent early this year, the focus on establishing the Trust Framework regulatory functions including the Governance Board is a focus for our engagement. It will have responsibility for Trust Framework rules and regulations. – Extended link library (SSI): https://clik.vc/ssilinklibrary – Extended link library (KYC/AML) and added reference: https://clik.vc/kycamllinklibrary Please refer to Statement of Milestones (SOM) for project plan to understand these activities context and relevance here: https://clik.vc/tdids

Evidence

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1 https://clik.vc/tdidsdistflegalresearch

Explanation

tdidsart1: This evidence shows; – Continued visual analysis of New Zealand’s Digital Identity Services Trust Framework (DISTF) Bill and its draft rules, by the projects’ Legal collaborators. – Initial draft design of registration process with TP1 tdidsdistflegalresearch: This evidence shows; – Continued work on comprehensible framework for interpretation of the DISTF Bill.

December 20, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Key activities for period: Oct 27 – Nov 30 The project formally started on the Oct 3, 2022. Report #1 Nov 25, 2022 here: https://clik.vc/f9tdidsreport1 Began working with Partners Introduced Ahau, TribalDIDs project kaupapa (purpose) Co-design project engagement commenced – how partners work together, expectations, outcomes Begun drafting Mana Enhancing Agreements for engagement (framework: https://clik.vc/meacomms) Confirmed minimum x2 Tribes: Tribal partner 1 A hapū (sub tribe) entity of Māori - the indigenous peoples of Āotearoa, New Zealand. They are currently in negotiations with the Āotearoa - New Zealand government and crown as part of the Waitangi Tribunal proceedings and are in the process of creating their own decentralized tribal registry using the Āhau platform. Tribal partner 2 An iwi (tribe) entity of Māori - the indigenous peoples of Āotearoa - New Zealand. They have their own centralized tribal registry that connects their descendants to benefits and services upon registration. They have established relationships with Aotearoa - New Zealand government departments including the Department of Internal Affairs. Confirmed minimum x2 Government: DIA (DISTF team) – Engaged with the Trust Framework Lead at Department of Internal Affairs MBIE – Engaged with Māori Economic Development Unit (Te Kupenga) and the Enabling Māori Framework Fund (EMF) Additional Government partners – MBIE (social procurement team), Realme (VC Pilot programme), IRD, IDLG deferred until Q1/2023 Minimum x2 Relying parties: Northtec, Maori Health Organisations (Various), Bank, Accountant, Auditors (Various), AML services, deferred until Q1/2023 One of two of the minimum x2 Stakeholders engaged: Digital Identity New Zealand (NZTech) – Engaged in discussion and co-host/promote Webinar about Digital Identity and its impact, benefit, risks for Maori. Additional Stakeholder partners – Iwi Data Leadership Group, Te Manana Runanga, Te Matarau, Digital Aotearoa Collective, deferred until Q1/2023 Planning for webinar about Digital Identity and its impact, benefit, risks for Maori commenced Scheduled for Q1/2023 in partnership with Te Matarau (Association for Maori Tech Community) and DINZ (Digital Identity New Zealand, part of NZTech) Design of event; Invitations, Email marketing, Runsheet, Presentation deck design commenced Continued Identity compliance research Met with New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs to understand the development of the Digital Identity Bill, including how it might apply to Āhau’s intended product. Continued reviewing relevant literature and examining associated digital identity standards. The advice we have received from DIA, as well as our conclusions from our own investigations, have led us to focus much more closely on the intended use of the digital product, rather than associated legal frameworks, including understanding how digital identity products will be used by iwi, hapū and whānau and for what purposes. Beginning to see where the requirements of Trust Framework will be practically implemented within Iwi/Māori contexts and where there are questions. Mapped information gathered at previous wananga (workshops) with hapu and iwi next to legislation mapping to better understand their current registration and verification process for their members to inform planning of design sessions in phase 2. (See evidence artifact link; #1) Focus directed toward understanding the product in relation to agents defined in the act: service provider, identity issuer, authenticator, etc. Continued building comprehensible framework for interpretation of the bill https://clik.vc/tdidsdistflegalresearch Engaged with conference proceedings from the 2022 International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC) and extracted insights likely to be useful to the project. In particular, current state of indigenous data sovereignty and the breadth of work that is currently happening in this space, both in Aotearoa and globally. Research identity rules and standards, KYC / AML scheduled for Q1/2023 Collate and verify rules to be included (NZ+possibly check against Global jurisdiction) Extended link library (SSI): https://clik.vc/ssilinklibrary Extended link library (KYC/AML): https://clik.vc/kycamllinklibrary Please refer to Statement of Milestones (SOM) for project plan to understand these activities context and relevance here: https://clik.vc/tdids

Evidence

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1

Explanation

tdidsart1: This evidence shows the continued visual analysis of New Zealand’s Digital Identity Services Trust Framework (DISTF) Bill and its draft rules, by the projects’ Legal collaborators. The visual process on miro, which has been updated with this month’s work, assists the team in work together to structure the bill in preparation for coding. The team have determined how the bill sets up a regulatory framework that establishes an "authorised identity provider" status, along with the requirements to get and maintain that status in Aotearoa. There is no real benefit to being an authorised provider evident, so it is possible many potential providers will choose to simply not participate. This may create challenges, e.g.; given the ambiguity, lack of incentive, if no one chooses to join the DISTF regime, the government could ammend the bill and mandate it, creating a high bar for all and any "authenticated" services in all sectors. With such an amendment the identity service which has received the bulk of government funding, known as RealMe could be mandated as new federated identity system that all providers must leverage/interoperate with. This would be functionally, economically, and commercially detrimental and create a barrier for self-sovereign systems where governance is not able to be shared, and, ultimately removal of all civil liability for misusing identity data.

November 24, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Key activities for period: Oct 3 – Oct 27 – The project formally started on the Oct 3, 2022 – Set up project management *Confirmed Project Management team *Secured Product Manager *Created SOM and high level project plan *Proposals for collaborative work received, reviewed, discussed, and approved *Secured Legal team of Collaborators including Law, Government policy and Rules-as-code expertise *Plan outlining lines of communication, key points of contact, accountability, intended use of budget throughout phase 1, and commercial arrangements between collaborative parties agreed *Secured Research and Evaluation support (academic stakeholders) *Secured paid support from NZ Government for Maori digital identity research and development *Set up wallet/currency exchange/team payment processes *Set up Project Management reporting timing, roles and requirements *Established regular weekly catch-ups – Began engagement to onboard partners and define use cases / determine participation *Proposing to potential tribal partners use cases includes; Hapu to Hapu identity registration, providing health insurance, distributing educational grants *Proposing to potential Government entity partners include; Department of Internal Affairs (Digital Identity Services Trust Framework team), Realme (Current preferred provider to NZ Govt. of Identity Services and VC pilot programme), Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (Maori Enablement Framework (EMF) team,Te Arawhiti (the office for Māori and Crown relations), and, Inland Revenue Department *Potential Relying parties include; Westpac Bank. NorthTec (Polytechnic), Waikato University *Stakeholders include; Te Manana Runanga, Te Matarau, Digital Aotearoa Collective, Victoria and Massey Universities (CS / Media Design) *Industry partners; Digital Identity New Zealand (NZTech), BlockchainNZ, AML/CFT service providers *Convened Māori working group for Digital Identity to investigate and support the involvement and development of Digital Identity from a Te Ao Maori perspective. https://digitalidentity.nz/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2022/05/Te-Kahui-Te-Tiriti-Working-Group-Charter.pdf – Begin Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Bill compliance research *Collated information gathered at previous wananga (workshops) with hapu and iwi to better understand their current registration and verification process for their members to inform planning of design sessions in phase 2. *Curated link libraries of recent/related Sovereign/Digital Identity (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkXjFI0XjmDxoDNaWwSBJMwUnlnt7QByU2sgJh5H904/edit?usp=sharing and AML/CFT (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wFmt6IvLs00t6-nw2SvFVE7CW-XeTqlmRCQoixGUNb4/edit?usp=share_link) reference materials *Commenced initial analysis of relevant legislative materials *Exploring the most effective way of annotating, collating, and modelling key information about legislative instruments, with a view to sharing this knowledge with internal and external stakeholders. (See evidence artifact link; #1) *Legal team collaborators developing and applying bespoke software for analysis – Please refer to Statement of Milestones (SOM) for project plan to understand these activities context and relevance here: https://clik.vc/tdids

Evidence

https://clik.vc/tdidsart1

Explanation

tdidsart1: This evidence shows an example of initial visual analysis of New Zealand’s Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Bill and its draft rules by the projects’ legal collaborators. The visual process assists the team in working together to begin to structure the bill in preparation for coding. The team has determined the bill is very lacking in terms of a referenceable structure, but is building bespoke tools to help deal with that to get to a more useful and comprehensible output. For instance, this early analysis has resulted in; the set up four bases: concepts, relationships, sources and citations, and a fourth base that links these three together; concepts are being grouped because the language of the bill is inconsistent, e.g.; "Accredited digital identity service or accredited service" is one concept.

Team

Deputy Chair, Executive Council of Digital Identity New Zealand, Co-founders of Āhau –Tribal Identity DApp & Digital Legal Systems Lab. Distributed system/secure scuttlebutt & Regs-as-code development expertise, Intergenerational relations with Maori across Aotearoa, New Zealand

jo allum

Ben Tairea

Hamish Fraser

Website:https://gitlab.com/ahau

All funds

Tribal DIDs=Indigenous Sovereignty

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