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SUMMARY:Digital Identity Systems For Humanitarian Aid
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DESCRIPTION:Shailesh Mishra\nEDIC candidacy exam\nExam president: Prof. Ca
 rmela Troncoso\nThesis advisor: Prof. Bryan Ford\nCo-examiner: Prof. Kater
 ina Argyraki\n\nAbstract\nHumanitarian aid organizations (HAOs) have been 
 serving millions of people every year and their prominence has grown in re
 cent years because of the pandemic\, wars\, and natural disasters. While d
 istributing aid among people\, the HAOs aim to achieve equity to help the 
 largest population possible. To achieve this goal\, HAOs need to maintain 
 details about aid distribution for every beneficiary. Digital identity sys
 tems can provide an efficient means to create and maintain such a record o
 f aid distribution.\nHence\, in this report\, we discuss three foundationa
 l papers that will help us with designing a practical digital identity sys
 tem. First\, we discuss SumUp\, a system that addresses the issue of sybil
 -resistance\, which is pivotal for achieving equity in aid distribution. T
 hen\, we present a construct for Decentralized Anonymous Credentials\, tha
 t provides a mechanism for issuing and verifying credentials in a privacy-
 preserving manner. This is an essential feature in an identity system as w
 e cannot afford to leak information about people living in distressed regi
 ons. Lastly\, we describe CanDID\, a system that not only provides sybil-r
 esistance and privacy but also presents mechanisms for accountability and 
 key recovery. These features make a digital identity system more robust. W
 e conclude by discussing the techniques which can be derived from each of 
 the these works to design a digital identity system that is well-suited fo
 r a region being aided by an HAO.\n\nBackground papers\n1.Sybil-Resilient 
 Online Content Voting\n2. Decentralized Anonymous Credentials\n3. CanDID: 
 Can-Do Decentralized Identity with Legacy Compatibility\, Sybil-Resistance
 \,and Accountability\n 
LOCATION:BC 233 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20233
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