15G/ SSI tech stack for New Zealand Farming / Chris C.

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Session 15G

Trust Alliance New Zealand

Session Convener: Trust Alliance New Zealand

Notes-taker(s): Elina Cadouri

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Intros

Kyle Peacock from Dfinity

Elina Cadouri from Dock - Tooling and infrastructure for SSI/DIDs/VCs

Reuben, Benri - Enterprise Solutions for travel industry

Sam Curan, Indicio

John, JLinx Labs - protocols and products for decentralized data exchange

Paul D, GS1 US - supply chain

Kevin Corter, Toby data - data aggregation

Jonny Striber, lawyer interested in DAOs, conflict resolution


Chris Claridge & Klaeri Schelhowe, Trust Alliance New Zealand


Agenda

  1. Introduction of Trust Alliance NZ
  2. Overview of the Problem Statement
  3. Proposal “Federated Farmers Wallet”
  4. Discussion
  5. Next Steps


Farm Data Sovereignty Organization

  • Farmers should be able to capture and share data
    • Farm enterprises/organizations (not farmers) identity
  • Non-profit industry consortium
  • Building out NZ’s digital infrastructure (not a platform)
  • Enable data capture, protection, sharing


TANZ is an enabler for NZ’s food and fiber industry to change from selling based on brand promise to brand proof

  • Provide digital proof both domestically and internationally
  • Not trust marking themselves, want to enable the tools
  • Looking to be in the background to enable the protocols


Shared the current alliance

  • Federated Farmers, government agencies, universities, GS1 NZ, tractor supplier, Technology companies, DATACOM, supermarkets, fertilizer companies, regional councils, food auditor, banks/lenders, health and safety providers
  • These brands will connect these protocols for the tools
  • How is it funded? Membership fee, non-profit organization is able to apply for government funding
  • Running for about 3 years, part of the time was undercover and then learning from the members via discovery workshops
    • Initially felt like the industry wasn’t ready, so they worked on use cases, definitions, protocols, etc.
    • Felt like identity was the starting point and looked into decentralized identity


Use Cases:

  1. Identity
  2. Location (who is the farm, where are they)
  3. Critical control, transactions, events


New Zealand doesn’t have a farm database, ID system, etc., instead they have regional councils who operate their own systems


Farm is the source of truth that is used across the value chain because they have all of the data about the farms

  • E.g. the farm may need to share compliance, if it is in a VC format then it is easier to share
  • The bank can prove that the customer is a good customer
  • Market access - as non-Americans, non-US, non-Chinese it makes it difficult to sell to these markets
  • They’re the 9th largest producer of french fries and need to export to different systems


Wallet - how it will work

Data input > farmer’s device > data output

Need support from the farming lobbying association


They’re looking for 3 or 4 solutions, they need to represent several options to the government


Start VCs

  1. Membership of federated farmers (union, represents 90% of the farm economic output)
  2. Authentication for polling/voting (non anonymous) by the farm enterprise
    1. Current voting is paper based
    2. Happens frequently
    3. They’re looking to provide the VCs for voting, but not to facilitate the voting
  3. Holding credentials on farm like paddock boundaries
    1. No framework for farm data, don’t know where the farm is
    2. Definitions of a farm change based on region
    3. Farms can be self-issued


July 6th is the farm summit

  • They have a mandate to do this from the farm community


Voting is the initial use case for the application

  • Wallet
  • Mobile app or browser extension to access the cryptographic identity
  • Verb needed: voting, tracking for the supply chain process
  • Farmers don’t like computers, prefer mobile
  • Might need to have both a phone and web experience


Dfinity - decentralized platform, can be stored


LEI - legally global identifier


Farmers have GLN numbers for the business - GS1 is building descriptions for farms


Operates like a DAO


There are existing apps, but federated farmers doesn’t have an app


Does it make sense to store valuable data on the farmer’s phones?


Make sure it works offline


Network is already formed with incentives to participate


Rollout

  • Starting internally with the farmers union, then a smaller group, then all of the farmers over 2 years
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