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TOIP EGWG 2025-12-11 Andy Woodruff and Using SSI to Champion Creator Governed Content
Is the creator economy broken? The Open Commercial Media Ecosystem (OCME) is restructuring digital media by shifting from User-Generated Content (UGC) to Creator-Governed Content (CGC)
TOIP EGWG 2025-07-10: Kyle Robinson, Digital Trust Ecosystems. Why they don’t make sense.
Learn why Kyle's practical experience with the Canadian Province of British Columbia's digital trust initiative has led him to focus on specific, high-impact digital credentials over broad "ecosystems." Documenting these well fosters trust and enables organic growth and unpredictable efficiencies, naturally building interoperable digital trust networks.
ToIP EGWG 2025-06-26: Aakash Guglani, Enhancing Trust using Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)
India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Unified Payment Interface (UPI) revolutionize financial inclusion, bringing over 500 million people into the digital economy. This open-source, mobile-first system builds trust and breaks traditional payment monopolies.
How Can We Trust What We See Online? Here’s One Way Forward
In a world where AI can create photos, videos, and even voices that look and sound real, how do we know what to trust? Every day, more content we see online is generated or altered by AI. That’s not always a bad thing. AI can help us create amazing art, get work done faster, or imagine…
EGWG 2025-05-15: The C2PA Conformance Program, Scott Perry
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) has created an open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media. Over the last year, the organization has been creating a governance framework and conformance program (based on the ToIP Metamodel) and is ready to launch…
EGWG 2025-05-01 Agri-food Data Canada – Carly Huitema
Learn about Agri-food Data Canada's Semantic Engine, a suite of tools designed to enhance research data management in the agri-food sector by making data FAIR. Podcast and YouTube inside.
EGWG 2025-03-20: Richard Whitt, GliaNET
Learn about Richard Whitt's vision for a more human-centric internet built on trust. Podcast and YouTube inside.
Protected: EGWG 2025-04-03: Stephan Wolf, Verifiable Trade Foundation
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Trust Over IP Members to Participate in Bhutan Innovation Forum
By Eric Drury If you’re in the digital trust space, like me you might be encouraged by the number and variety of inspiring developments—appearing on an almost weekly basis—which illustrate...
ToIP at EIC and Beyond: A Summer of Not-to-Be Missed Sessions
See all the conference sessions and talks in which ToIP members or our partners will be participating.
ToIP Announces the First Implementers Draft of the Trust Spanning Protocol Specification
Read about a protocol that is to digital trust what the Internet Protocol (IP) is to digital data.
ToIP Announces the Implementers Draft of the Trust Registry Query Protocol Specification V2.0
Creating a simple and consistent way to programmatically get answers from authoritative ecosystem sources.
ToIP Announces New Issuer Governance Requirements Guide for Verifiable Credentials – Public Comment Needed
Comment on our first effort to define standard requirements for issuers of verifiable credentials.
Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) Task Force Announces Public Review
A blueprint for creating truly decentralized, authentic, and verifiable ecosystems of identifiers, “credentials”, and attestations
Where’s the user manual?
Let's shape the friendly future of digital wallets together! Join in by sharing your thoughts in the survey.
Simplifying the Selection Process for Credential Issuance and Presentation Protocols
Making it easier for individuals to choose the right option based on their specific context and requirements.
A Major Step Towards Interoperable Identity Assurance
A joint blog post with the OpenID Foundation, addressing a key piece of the interoperability puzzle.
Mid-Year Progress Report on the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol
Summarizing the seven pillars of the design of the trust spanning protocol.
What is the business value of harms countermeasures in digital identity systems?
Businesses can derive significant commercial benefits by mitigating the potential harms in digital identity ecosystems.