2024-01-16 Meeting notes

James Kragh, Chair

Y

Justin Byrd, Vice Chair

Y

Noreen Whysel, Secretary

Y

Jeff Brennan

N

Bev Corwin

N

Sal D'Agostino

Y

Thomas Jones

Y

Thomas Sullivan

Y

Catherine Schulten

N

Jim StClair

N

Jeff Brennan

N

Simone Alcorn

N

Maria Vachino

N

Renee Hunter

N

Isha Chhatwal

Y

1:00pm EST

Update on DII

@Jim Kragh

Update: The RIUP Digital Identifier Inclusion document is in the hands of the Kantara Leadership Council for review and acceptance.

Barry Heeb/former HIA WG is in Arizona and interested in remaining in touch if when we need him.

1:08pm EST

ENTIDAD Farm Workers Identity Solution

@Tom Jones

Jorge Flores

Jesus Torres

Jorge Flores, ENTIDAD

Jesus Torres, CEO ENTIDAD (background in Entertainment and Latino business)Follow up session from two weeks ago with Jorge Flores, with ENTIDAD. Jorge will be joining RIUP WG, and today he will be sharing with us how he and his colleagues have reached out and engaged rural communities, farmworkers and their ecosystems. 

Themes: ground level engagement, first steps in building trust using core technology.

Jesus is joining as a RIUP member.

Jesus:

Access to civic infrastructure:

• Address

• Public Transportation

• ID

ENTIDAD has to manually verify via ID or address to provide food benefits.

Most have smart phones (about 80%). 50/50 iPhone/Android. Also some “Obamaphones”

Large percentage undocumented and reluctant to share personal information. Trust. Is the ENTIDAD rep an official provider or is it phishing?

UFW Verifiable digital identity/wallet

Preparese Ecosystem (TM)
https://www.preparese.info/

1. A farm worker smartphone app

2. A platform to build and host business services (connects to other three points in this list)

3. Business services/solutions: Alivio,
   Immigration, Emergency Relief, etc.

4. Data analytics infrastructure

Open

BUSINESS SERVICES

1. Emergency Relief Service: Let the UFW Foundation plan, manage, and operate over 500 in-person events at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that distributed over $15 million in resources to over 40,000 families.

2. Immigration Service: Used by the UFW Foundation to process applicant prescreens for over 300 DACA renewal cases since Nov. 2022.

3. Recruitment Service: Being used by CIERTO Global to scale ethical farmworker recruitment operations in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

4. Alivio Service: Being used by 8 organizations to process and distribute $80 million in USDA pandemic relief payments to over 120,000 eligible farmworkers.

Jorge:

Interaction model:

Open

Features:

• Chat

• 6 digit PIN

• 3D Likeness detection in development.

Alivio:

• Desktop and mobile versions

• 8 participating organizations.

• Phone/email is not required, but Farm Workers Relief program needs it to process the application

ID Scan: front, back and image metadata

ENTIDAD’s presentation will be contributed to the Open Wallet Foundation and will be available there shortly.

TRAINING versions of our Preparese app (use dummy data):
https://testflight.apple.com/join/J4ebNYbN
https://app.entidad.io/i/DY5eCN
Verifiable credentials demo

Q&A:

Sal: is there a trusted verifiable credential? Could be a use case for consent receipt. (Jesus/Entidad: yes)
Jorge/Entidad: Our farmworker wallet OS (wallet engine) is built on top of Hyperledger Aries framworks, AnonCreds is the current scope

Dr. Tom: Healthcare application? (Entidad: wish list)

Jorge: need Farmworker/Employer directory but this doesn’t exist. Is there a reliable way to know if the ID or proof of employment is fraudulent?

Pushed to next meeting

RIUP Use Cases

@Tom Jones

Our next step involves the RIUP Use Cases URL link                                                                                      (content below if link fails)

Tom: Aging In Place is a potential use case

Farmworker in a Foreign Country
Moderator: Tom Jones

The details will vary from country to country, but the barriers remain to be resolved wherever they arise.

Each Subject Needs

• Right to Work legally (H2A, Green Card, etc)

• Medical Care (eg access to Medicaid or other tax supported programs)

• Farm and Food Workers relief grant, Food and Farmworkers relief program (FFWR) (created during Pandemic) some documentation not including immigration status (etc)

• Proof of work status to get service (when person is not documented) (photo of paystub, letter)

• Credentials to include scanned documents (See Tom’s youtube video)

• Cannot receive USPS mail

• Support self, wife, children (delegated authority)

• Send payments home

• Receiving cash distributions (virtual debit card) May arrive after the farmworker has move on

• Use someone else’s phone to access personal records or apply for a benefit

• Paying taxes and unscrupulous attacks, including online attacks (e.g. example FFWR fraud incident)

Solution

• Identifier - user created is a possibility, but enterprise created email address is common

• Notifications of changes of breaches from enterprises that hold user data

• Can there be a back-up data store in the cloud to restore after loss of phone

• Verifiable Credentials and decentralized Identifiers.

• Account with consulate 

• Nonprofits like the Centro Cultural Mexicano Redmond Washington

  • Rent Assistance | Asistencia Para la Renta 

  • Events | Eventos 

  • Radio ¡Ya Es Tiempo! 

  • Resources | Recursos 

  • Programs | Programas 

  • Scholarship | Beca 

  • Small Businesses | Pequeños Negocios 

  • Seattle Domestic Workers Ordinance 

  • Mi Casa | Maker Space 

  • Makerspace | Espacio de Creación 

  • The Time is Now! | ¡Ya Es Tiempo! 

• Employment Opportunities I Oportunidades de Empleo 

• Mobile Wallet including older models

• Is a smart phone enough - offline access - no phone home requirement

• get older phones from telcos and manufacturers

• Low cost smart phones are often issued to migrants under federal programs (e.g llifeline-program-low-income-consumers)

• Walmart has a phone for $30, but connectivity is costly and comes and goes.

• Biometrics or any scanned artifact

• Liveness detection (proof of presence, etc) - will help with back-up and restore

• Interoperability

• Third-party validation and support programs - often with non-profits (unions, medical)

• Audit (ledgers, receipts, log, etc.) - deduplication

• Education

• Preparese

• Western Union or other funds transfer capabilities

• Can we help non-profits address and fund these issues

• Direct engagement with usda

Immigrant waiting to Cross the border

Note that the details here are taken from the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) but would equally apply to any controlled border with a surplus of immigrant applicants  but with some difference in the details.

Each Subject Needs

• Approved access to asylum

• To understand a set of rules in a language that they do not understand well, if at all

• To follow an existing set of asylum rules which have little to do with current events

• Some proof that the meet the existing set of rules

• A translator that can make it clear to them what else they need to do or to provide

• Regular check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (border-migrants-cell-phones-cec )

Solution

Separated Communities

There are many reasons why some people choose, or are forced, to live separated from the dominant social order. These include historical, language, religion, economic, family or other social structures that are more congenial or accepting of their own identity. Since the dominant social order typically has the political and economic power to structure society to their own best interests, those living apart are seldom able to exercise their own rights as they choose. Specifically excluded from this category are those people rich enough to travel where and when they desire. Separated communities are found in all nations large enough to give them the space to form. Some such communities include:

•  indigenous where a foreign people have taken their land in the Americas and elsewhere, 

• homeless or street people who do have have a safe place to call home,

• Roma of Europe and Travelers of Ireland, among others that chose to roam,

• Uyghurs of China, Rohingya of Burma, Catalans of Spain and other stateless nations,

• any rural population in an industrialized country that chose a quiet, familiar location.

Each Subject Needs

• Privacy, meaning the right to be let alone, as they often do not want to be assimilated

• Access to the same rights and privileges as the bulk of the nation’s people where they live