Sample Use Cases

Owned by Noreen Whysel
Last updated: Nov 21, 2023
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Farm Worker Use Case

  • Tend to move as family

  • Tend to be more than one worker per family

  • Only one phone per family

  • Phone can be lost or lent to someone else

  • Organization providing services:

    • United Farmworkers

    • Cirrus (spelling)

  • Low assurance since it is used for more than one person.

    • Credentials themselves could have high assurance

How it works

  • Assign a DID

  • User gets the wallet and user attaches the credentials they want to it

  • High quality credentials associated with the DID

    • Enables lightweight identity structure

    • Can’t do heavy weight without enrollment system


Successful Use Cases:

  • Louisiana allows people to place in a digital wallet for $6

  • Red Cross and Farm Workers' Union have “Circle of Trust/Identity” that allows individuals within one's social group to attest to a person’s identity

  • Ukraine: online bank accounts are attached to mobile devices used to verify identity

 

Other Possible Use Cases:

Services in other countries (Simone)

  • Going on foreign travel soon

  • Interested to see how 3rd world countries handle ID for various purposes.

United Way (TomJ)

  • Concerned about deduplication to avoid fraud. Deduplication is contracted out to another entity. 2 methods: avoid killing patients, avoid fraud. Carmen at ONC working on patient matching.

 

Issues:

  • Bev: Classification needs to be dynamic, multidimensional to address multitude of complex situations

  • Tom: Identity and identifier (association with the identity) needs to be separate

  • Bev: Self-asserted identity