# DIF APAC Regional SIG (2023)

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## :triangular_flag_on_post: February Meeting

This call is a collaborative effort between DIF and ToIP Communities and interested parties invovled with Decentralized Identity in the Asia Pacific region

## 💬 Agenda Items

agenda items to discuss in this meeting.

| **Item** | **Presenter** | **Pass Time** |
|---------- |----------------- |-------------- |
| Member Introductions | Catherine | 10 minutes |
| 2023 Events | Micheal | 5 minutes |
Digital identifiers: India |Sankarshan|20 minutes
Digital wallet & ID Card, Digital law and Standards: Thailand |Sammotic| 20 minutes

## :heavy_check_mark: Meeting Summary

**Members that attended**
1. Catherine Nabbala
2. Michael Shea
3. Eric Welton
4. Sammotic Switchyarn
5. Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
6. Sandeep Bajjuri
7. Frederic Ho
8. William Mui
9. Aniket

**2023 Events**
Compiled by Michael Shea - Vienna Digital Identity https://vimeo.com/viennadigitalidentity should you be interested in a pannel discussion or even sponsoring, please kindly get in touch with him. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelxshea/

**Digitization in India**-Quick Overview by Sankarshan
Digitization has been built around Data Protection, Security and Exchange resulting in creation of digital public goods, public data registries and digital infrastructure to work at scale.

The massive scale of digitization across various services is also
linked with the creation of verifiable digital credentials enabling
the holder to benefit from many opportunities. Today there are large,
thriving communities in the space of skilling, education, livelihood,
health and other domains. The talk is a quick introduction to how open
protocols like Beckn and communities like DHP and DSEP are bringing
members together to deliver digital credentials, which can create high
liquidity for the recipient.

In previous sessions, we've discussed the regulation around data
governance; this time, we'll use the implementation examples to
explore some of the topics.

**Foundational Pieces**:

Beckn Protocol
https://github.com/beckn/
:Enables network creation
and ecosystem building
Offers a “Beckn Core”
specification that can be
reused.

Sunbird RC
https://github.com/Sunbird
-RC: Data registries, VCs and
attestation.

**Ongoing Projects:**

**DSEP**

https://github.com/beckn/DSEP-Specification/
Focused on Skilling,
Learning and Livelihood

Enabling interoperability in
VCs generated by systems
and exchanged by wallets

**DHP**

https://github.com/dhp-project/
Ecosystems in health and
wellness domain

Unified Health Interface
https://www.civis.vote/con
sultations/424/read

Bhutan Nattional Digital ID: Onboarding has started: https://www.dtnext.in/world/2023/02/22/bhutans-prince-jigme-wangchuck-becomes-countrys-first-digital-citizen

**Key Lessons**

Focus on the “paper”
credentials used most
abundantly and plan
transformation into VCs

Keep the need to have
“verifiable QR” in mind
while designing for wallets

Scale for maximum
liquidity of credentials

Work within communities
which include needs of
demand and supply sides of
credentials

**Next Call**

We shall be looking at Thailand for the first half and then Estonia in the last half.

## :end: Close of Meeting