– What is a digital identity?

Digital identity is a concept in cyberspace. It refers to a set of data describing a person or thing (sometimes referred to as a subject or entity), or the sum of all information about a person available on the Internet.  It is an online identity adopted by individuals, organizations or electronic devices in the network, or network identity.  These individuals, organizations or electronic devices may have more than one digital identity through different online communities.  These digital identities are composed of some characteristics or digital attributes.  -A digital identity may also be associated with other digital identities, such as e-mail, Weibo, etc.  Although these identity-related attributes can help determine a person’s identity to a certain extent, these attributes can be changed, hidden, or even discarded.

– How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity affect social media use?

Technologies such as digitization and cloud have matured, but still have potential to be tapped; at the same time, the importance and influence of technologies such as blockchain, cognition and digital reality are also growing rapidly.  It can be seen that digital transformation is a necessary process for future organizational innovation, and is extensively reconstructing people’s work and life.

 Whether it is the Internet era or the blockchain era, one of their characteristics is “digital.”  The basis of digital activities is the digital identity of users.  Only by ensuring the authenticity and validity of the user’s digital identity can the information and data associated with a series of activities and transactions be authentic and effective.  Therefore, the development of a digital identity system is inevitable, and blockchain technology provides a relatively credible solution to a certain extent by virtue of its decentralization, multi-party consensus, hard to tamper with, openness and transparency, and traceability.

– How do digital identities converge in networked publics?

Due to the theft or loss of identity certificates, more than 7,000 homeless people in Austin, the capital of Texas, are unable to receive social services such as medical care, housing and potential employment each year.  To solve these problems, the city uses blockchain technology to create unique digital identifiers for homeless people, enabling them to rebuild credible records about housing, health, and employment records to help them get back on track.  IDHub, a domestic blockchain digital identity startup company, has realized the link between blockchain and the pan-Internet, government affairs, justice, and notarization through the core entry of blockchain digital identity.  In 2017, Foshan Chancheng, Guangdong, cooperated with IDHub to establish an IMI digital identity system, which kicked off the “Zhixin Chancheng” plan, providing a trusted identity data authentication interface for local governments and more than 1.3 million residents in the jurisdiction, realizing administrative approval, medical and health care  , Public welfare, charity, pension assistance and other public services online application processing; as of the first quarter of 2019, the project will complete more than 250 public government affairs.

– what are the impacts and/or benefits? – Can a digital wallet provide trust in networked publics?

An individual’s digital identity is formed by an individual through participating in network activities. From a social perspective, a digital identity can become the second business card for people to communicate with each other.  From a broader perspective, a person’s digital identity also contains his personal data and personal information.  As a product of the era of big data, online digital identities are diverse, false, super-domain, and variability.

 Diversity, in the era of big data, people can construct different digital identities according to their own needs and surrounding environment.  These digital identities will change due to factors such as specific areas and application purposes.  Due to the virtual nature of online communication, people can almost have any identity they want on the Internet, and even have multiple identities at the same time without conflict with each other.

 Falseness. The construction of digital identity is greatly affected by subjective factors. The identity attributes provided by users can be real, one-sided, historical, anonymous, tampered or even forged.  Digital identities on the Internet are false and may also mess up online identities.

 Hyperterritoriality, due to the characteristics of the network, allows network users to communicate acrossthousands of miles away even if they are separated by thousands of miles. Therefore, network identity also has the characteristics of transcending regions and regions.

 Variability. The online digital identity of network users will change according to their different work, life, study, status and other factors. The uploaded text, picture and video will vary greatly according to the passage of time.

I think that a digital wallet can provide trust among the online public, because electronic payment is a convenient and fast payment method that is very popular in the current society.