The following is a suggested template to use for your SIG bi-annual report. Please edit as needed.
Special Interest Group
The group is becoming larger and diverse with subscribers and participants from all around the world. Recently volunteers from the group has participated in the virtual Hyperledger Global Forum 2021. Presently we are more than 200 subscribers and expect a wider engagement on diverse topics covering Blockchain applications in Public Sector.
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We post all our meeting recordings and presentations on the site as a session library for later review.
Report Author(s)
Jim Mason
Public Sector - SIG Overall Health
We have a group subscriber list of 215 people with low level of turnover.
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Some sessions have been as low as 20 people and some over 90.
Issues and Challenges
Challenges include building a backlog of speakers wanting to present on new topics.
We also don't want to overlap on sessions with other Hyperledger groups on topics. For example, Federal had test Fedcoin as an early CBDC prototype. While that's clearly Public Sector, we already have a very strong focus in capital markets where CBDC topics are well covered.
Overall Activity in the last 6 months
Our Past 6 months have been very active on the meeting schedule
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- 7/30 NFTs - Non-Fungible Tokens: What, Why, Use cases, Legal concepts
- 7/2 Liz Tanner - Rhode Island on track for digital government with identity blockchain
- May 21st - Indicio - Cardea: a Verifiable Credential for Health - Heather Dahl, CEO of Indicio
Ken Ebert, CTO of Indicio - May 5th - Alastria mission to promote the digital economy with the Hyperledger community
- May 7th - Good Health Pass Overview - Todd Gehrke - ID2020.org
- April 23rd - DLT and Business Eco-System - Aleksandar Zelenovic - Publicis Sapient
- April 16th - The Open Mobility Network (OMN): An infrastructure for a new economy of movement
Speaker: Robin Pilling - March 26th - Identity and Privacy in Patient Health Care - Jim St Clair - Lumedic
- Mar 12th 10 am EST - Self-Sovereign Identity in Govtech for Financial & Healthcare Inclusion
Speaker: Debajani Mohanty - Feb 12th - NSF-Treasury Grants Payment Proof of Concept
- Jan 29th - Infosys - Solutions for secure digital identity and credentials: 2 government use cases
Speakers - Jan 15th - Stephen Curran - Digital Identity in the Government of British Columbia
- Past Meeting: Kaliya Young, the Identity Woman - The Domains of Identity
Planned Work Products
Continue to build a session focused on blockchain issues, solutions, challenges related to Public Sector
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There may be an opportunity to collaborate on a paper on topics ( eg I contributed to a paper on NFT legal aspects for the EU Blockchain Forum )
Participant Diversity
We don't formally track diversity statistics by country, sex, race or age clearly.
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Finding women speakers who have great information on many topics for our audience hasn't been more difficult than finding men.
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Date Published
8/9/21