Transition Pathways towards Design Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity

Sedlmeir, Johannes; Huber, Jasmin; BARBEREAU, Tom Josua; WEIGL, Linda; ROTH, Tamara

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Transition Pathways towards Design Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity

Sedlmeir, Johannes; Huber, Jasmin; BARBEREAU, Tom Josua et al.

2022 • In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

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Self-sovereign identity; Design principles; Distributed ledger; Innovation; Public key infrastructure; Certificate; Digital wallet; Verifiable credential; Multi-level perspective

Abstract :

[en] Society’s accelerating digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted clearly that the Internet lacks a secure, efficient, and privacy-oriented model for identity. Self-sovereign identity (SSI) aims to address core weaknesses of siloed and federated approaches to digital identity management from both users’ and service providers’ perspectives. SSI emerged as a niche concept in libertarian communities, and was initially strongly associated with blockchain technology. Later, when businesses and governments began to invest, it quickly evolved towards a mainstream concept. To investigate this evolution and its effects on SSI, we conduct design science research rooted in the theory of technological transition pathways. Our study identifies nine core design principles of SSI as deployed in relevant applications, and discusses associated competing political and socio-technical forces in this space. Our results shed light on SSI’s key characteristics, its development pathway, and tensions in the transition between regimes of digital identity management.

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Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > FINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-organizational Digital Transformations

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Sociology & social sciences
Library & information sciences
Management information systems

Author, co-author :

Sedlmeir, Johannes; University of Bayreuth > FIM Research Center Bayreuth ; Fraunhofer FIT > Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering

Huber, Jasmin; University of Bayreuth > The Faculty of Law, Business & Economics

BARBEREAU, Tom Josua ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX

WEIGL, Linda ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX

ROTH, Tamara ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX

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yes

Language :

English

Title :

Transition Pathways towards Design Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity

Publication date :

October 2022

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Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

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Association for Information Systems

Event place :

Copenhagen, Denmark

Event date :

from 09-12-2022 to 14-12-2022

Audience :

International

Main work title :

Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Focus Area :

Security, Reliability and Trust

FnR Project :

FNR13342933 - Paypal-fnr Pearl Chair In Digital Financial Services, 2019 (01/01/2020-31/12/2024) - Gilbert Fridgen

Funders :

FNR - Fonds National de la Recherche

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