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MrChrisJ / World-Citizenship

Globally orientated citizenship with private passport services using available cryptographic tools
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World Service Authority connection? #19

Open Aranad opened 9 years ago

Aranad commented 9 years ago

Have you heard of the World Service Authority? it's an organisation that's been around for a long time now and offers a real "world citizen" passport. It's legally accepted in 6 countries and intermittently accepted in about 150. I'm not exactly sure what a connection between this project and that would entail, but it seems to me that these projects are so complimentary that it's definitely worth investigating! http://worldservice.org/

MrChrisJ commented 9 years ago

Hey @Aranad thanks very much, someone else also sent me a link to their site, I really agree with the spirit of this movement and it looks like there have been some early adopters of this idea for some time now. What they could do is simply take the technique outlined in the readme and apply it to their paperwork. All they would have to add is the PGP information (both signee and them as signing party) and the merkle root. This will be enough to make the document immutable. Then they would simply add another field in their database that pointed to the blockchain, preferably using OP_RETURN so it was discoverable using independent third party APIs. Like this one I just did using Proof of Existence:

https://insight.bitpay.com/tx/f8fb45e456fbac68831e7887e4e4520f91adcc7dd3f5a7f801d8bba6e4445fe7 SHA256: 395bd613f80c39de993328163e491f371bce957744ddaf922a6fea0fba5d606b

johnedge commented 9 years ago

Hi Chris, could we chat, I am working on a project linked to an NGO and we have a similar mindset

johnedge commented 9 years ago

@MrChrisJ sorry forgot to tag you, it's social impact project looking to protect children at risk

Aranad commented 9 years ago

Yeah I think you're right, integration would all be on WSA's side, unfortunately I think it might be difficult to convince them of the benefits as they seem really old-school, for example all their payment methods are done using printer paper forms posted in the mail!

Aranad commented 9 years ago

Perhaps worth a try though, they may have some young tech-savvy fellows on board? info@worldservice.org

MrChrisJ commented 9 years ago

Thanks @Aranad I will contact them and let you know how I get on.

MrChrisJ commented 9 years ago

Hey @johnedge I reached out on Twitter as I don't know how to DM on Github