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Welcome to my blog . Here you may find rambling thoughts or incisive comment and pieces from friends and colleagues. All relevant to the digital world that we inhabit.


Personal resilience - what really matters
Talk is starting to turn to resilience. So, I really guess that most of the conversations will be “Cyber-Resilience”. Do not get me...
Jon Shamah
Mar 42 min read


Security for Everyone (unless its Windows 10!)
A bright future Recently I began thinking about secure elements, on smartphones, on computers, and their relationship to safety and...
Jon Shamah
Feb 283 min read


Looking at Wallet Business Models. - #1, Revenue Generation
So now to discuss the herd of elephants in the room…..What I am seriously missing is some business models for public Digital Wallets that...
Jon Shamah
Feb 114 min read


A Personal View of the State of Digital Wallets
There is a lot of discussions recently touching on the future of public digital identity wallets and what the future holds in store for...
Jon Shamah
Feb 75 min read


The Exciting Evolution and Challenges of Digital Identity Wallets in Europe
The growth in digital identity wallet development is an exhilarating trend that promises to transform the way we interact with digital...
Jon Shamah
Feb 14 min read


Is this Machiavellian... or what?
OK, so I have written debunking the soothsayers and conspiracy theorists about "digital identity enslavement", and I stand by my beliefs...
Jon Shamah
Jan 222 min read


2024 in retrospect
2024 proved that building digital wallets isn't the hard part. The real challenge lies in getting governments, businesses, and citizens...
Jon Shamah
Jan 12 min read


The Digital Wallet Progressed but lots more questions need answering..
So, I decided to leave penning a retrospect for 36 hours after the end of the SPRIND meeting in Berlin on Wednesday…… I was left with...
Jon Shamah
Dec 13, 20242 min read


Misinformation is King !
As the English saying goes: “If you say it enough times someone will start to believe you”
Jon Shamah
Nov 29, 20232 min read


eGovernment: Do we need to have a radical technology rethink before it is too late?
Libor Neumann is well known in the Trust community as a radical and deep thinker on authentication and security. He has kindly given us...
jshamah
Sep 11, 20232 min read


The Two Real Digital Identity Wallet Deal-Breakers…
The problem with eIDAS 1 was the lack of confidence of the EU in itself. By initially limiting the regulation to citizen-government...
jshamah
Aug 22, 20233 min read


Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS
My friends over at the GLASS H2020 project have published an interesting paper on IPFS, which I think should be shared. Here is some...
jshamah
Aug 2, 20231 min read


Are we on the long road to a Single European Identity?
Save The Date for the GTF EU Digital Identity Wallet Forum
Jon Shamah
Jul 7, 20232 min read


Lessons from ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – a cybersecurity expert explains
So this is a really great article that I came across in a newsletter called "The Conversation" https://theconversation.com/us. Not...
jshamah
Jun 16, 20231 min read


Are we asking the right questions about identity?
Alan Mitchell, Chairman of The Mydex Community Interest Company has blogged this view of the Economics of Identity as an alternative to...
jshamah
May 25, 20234 min read


A Glimpse of the Future – or the Past?
A look into how complex digital Wallet interactions could revolutionise society
Jon Shamah
May 12, 20233 min read


In search of economically viable identity ecosystems
Michael Kubach and Heiko Rossnagel - Fraunhofer IAO Michael and Heiko - both from Fraunhofer IAO - are old work colleagues from the...
jshamah
Apr 21, 20234 min read


It’s Digital Education Stupid!
Sorry, “It’s the economy stupid” was a phrase coined by James Carville in 1992, when he was advising Bill Clinton in his successful run...
jshamah
Apr 11, 20232 min read


There is Nothing New Under the Sun – It’s Just Distributed!
For some time now, I have had the feeling in the back of my mind that I am living Ground-Hog Day with SSI and Digital Wallets. Just...
jshamah
Apr 3, 20233 min read


"Money, Money, Money, it must be funny, in a Digital Wallet World"
The Financial working of digital wallets are another essential for success
jshamah
Mar 23, 20232 min read
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