 So, hi everyone. Today, I'm going to be talking about why the decentralized identity movement needs to be government led or we need to bring governments along with us in this evolution of identity and trust. So I'll start off by why you know, why is there so much hype around blockchain? Because these decentralized or distributed ledger technologies You know that are cryptographically secure with smart contracts or business logic inherent in the systems are said to potentially Disintermediate governments and banks and those age-old institutions that we trust so much with our data our money our privacy etc and But but I don't see it that way I think we can support government in transforming their services to citizens and You know what we're doing at consensus and within the larger distributed ledger Technology community is creating a web 3.0 a new ecosystem of trust And we're trying to fix some of the challenges that were that we face in web 2.0, which is around identity and Around transfer of assets or value. Those are the two big challenges that we have right now that we're trying to fix so, you know banks and governments are the ones that are Providing us with the identity documents that we have today you go to the DMV you present them with your Your marriage certificate your social security. I mean for every DMV. It's a little bit different Your last driver's license, which was from five to ten years ago And and this process we have to wait in lines. It happens over and over again And and frankly even within the same DMV you'll have people asking you for different things So it's it's quite a sounding and you know, this is this is all operated by governments and banks And there's this renewal process that we have to go through to continue to prove who we are And many of our friends and in the in the decentralized identity space today talked about some of those challenges that we have with the issuance of identity and how This we value this because we're getting that attestation from governments and so What we've done to date Although we've we've had e-governance and e-government solutions, you know over the past 10 to 20 years come to light we've made a lot of progress, but we still have very siloed systems. We still have you know different identities for security clearance for For your driver's license for your marriage certificate for social security all of those things Are still sitting in silos and they're not talking to each other And this is a huge challenge that specifically the US government But other governments globally are facing as they have a number of different Identifiers for all of us and they're not talking to each other and decentralized and in siloed systems And it's a huge headache for them to process Okay, so what does government do they take in data and they take in payments They process it through paperwork and approvals and then they issue permits and license this is Approximately 80% of what the government does today, right taking in Information and then spewing out these verified claims And and we wanted better that system So I think we need to bring government along in And and learn from some of the systems of the past and Create a new vision together with government It's it's everyone's responsibility in this room because our systems are broken and how do we do that? We explain how this will lower costs increase transparency and get governments back to doing what they're supposed to do which is provide services to their citizens So citizen managed ID user controlled ID self-sovereign ID whatever you want to call it We we there are a number of different services where Citizens should be at the center and they shouldn't be commanding controlled top-down services The citizens should be more engaged with governments and vice versa around the issuance of these services and this is where We want to transform as a community as a blockchain community So how do we do that? We get them involved in the conversations around some of the basic building blocks, right? electronic signatures it is Amazing that some of these laws around electronic signatures passed in the 90s and you still have government agencies debating whether an electronic signature is appropriate or accepted for like a simple contract Or or USAID for example the bio data that they have that that's an identity Document around your salary history and your employment background You know you still They're still debating whether an electronic signature is acceptable in that on that form So, you know smart contracts business logic built into systems. We need to bring We need to have an open dialogue about these basic building blocks So, what are we doing at consensus? We have you port which is focused on self-sovereign identity and We we are working with ever name and Microsoft and a bunch 60-plus organizations as a part of the decentralized identity foundation and where we are working on open source and open standards and Those discussions are ongoing as this technology evolves and as we build it together. That's all