Call Me Snow: The Co-founder and CTO of Oslo-Based Diwala Tells the Story of His Journey Chasing the Blockchain Zeitgeist and How Diwala is Bringing it to Fruition in Africa

IPR: My Digital Self

Snow’s Linkedin Profile & Personal Webpagehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/vongohren/https://vongohren.me/
Snows’ Javazone talkhttps://vimeo.com/233629394
Diwalahttps://diwala.io/https://medium.com/diwala/the-story-of-diwala-5f8567ae71d1https://medium.com/diwala/diwalas-ecosystem-76b35037a4c2
Zero Knowledge Proofs - Wired articlehttps://www.wired.com/story/zero-knowledge-proofs/
Hawala - Snow Describes Diwala as “Digital Hawala” insofar as it builds trust back into the skill id network, much like Hawala builds trust into money transfer networks. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hawala.asp
Kampala, Ugandahttps://www.britannica.com/place/Kampala
Blockchainhttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp
Cryptocurrencyhttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cryptocurrency.asp
Oslo Blockchain Dayhttps://osloblockchainday.no/
Gnosis.iohttps://gnosis.io/
Revolut (I meant to refer to Transferwise’s means of moving money in the show, but Revolut and Transferwise offer similar services)https://www.revolut.com/en-US/https://transferwise.com/us/
SWIFThttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/swift.asp
IBANhttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/iban.asp
Cryptographic signatureshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature
Peer to Peer Networkshttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/peertopeer-p2p-service.asp
Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) - a term reflecting the belief that an individual should own and control their identity without intervening administrative authorities. SSI allows people to interact in the digital world with the same freedom and capacity for trust as they do in the offline world.https://medium.com/@AlexPreukschat/self-sovereign-identity-a-guide-to-privacy-for-your-digital-identity-5b9e95677778
Decentralized Identifier Specifications Upon Which Diwala Builds its Platformhttps://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-primer/https://medium.com/@adam_14796/understanding-decentralized-ids-dids-839798b91809https://www.uport.mehttps://sovrin.orgVC use cases: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-use-cases/VC Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ DID spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
OAuthhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth
GDPR - General Data Protection Regulationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
Brave Browserhttps://brave.com/
Coilhttps://coil.com/
Cinnamon.videohttps://www.cinnamon.video/
Lever - Software for the Employee Recruitment Processhttps://www.lever.co/about/
This show has been edited for content and brevity.