Understanding EBSI: Masterclass on European Blockchain Services Infrastructure

of one of uh I would say main projects on blockchain uh coming from uh government we call it European blockchain service infrastructure. So we you will hear a lot about EBSI and we will try to uh explain to you what European Commission is currently working on together with the member states and how it you can benefit from it either being a business or a citizen. And this is really the objective today is to exchange ideas with such a wide audience and perhaps to have some uh followup to this discussion in 2021. So let's start uh without any further delays. Um as you know the European Commission of course is a lot about policy and we have with us a colleague of mine Pierre Maru and he is responsible in the G connect one of the DGs of the commission for uh European blockchain policy and he will give you an overview of what the commission is currently trying to do on the regulation side.

But the commission is not only regulating we are also implementing and this is where I come from. I come from another director general of the commission called Digit and we are actually implementing together with the member states and also a wide variety of players the European blockchain services infrastructure and my colleague Robert that is actually leading the technical team will give you an overview of EBSI. Then we have our team here with us today. We have Zira on the other side together with Saki and they work for the stakeholder management team that helps people get engaged and know more about the BSI. So after the master class you can always contact us and they will be your guides.

I think Danielle is actually uh let's continue. Uh we also have with us uh several people working on all the technical details of the European blockchain services infrastructure. So I'm joined by Kevin, Julian and Alan. All of them are working on the technical details and you will also be able to ask questions about what is EBSI, how is it going to be implemented, how are the member states actually on the ground doing the work. Um the agenda is therefore we will start with the policy context.

It's very important to understand the regulation around blockchain. So the more regulatory work that is happening how we are joining the member states to create the EPSI and all the initiatives of dig. I will then um explain why are governments interested in blockchain because typically you don't hear so much about blockchain and governments. It's much more about the financial sector or um you know the private sector in general. There's also a great interest by government on blockchain.

Um then my colleague Robert will go into a deep dive on the European blockchain services infrastructure and he will be joined by several of the colleagues that are with us today. We will also discover throughout this journey the capabilities and we will use the diploma use case as a good example of how blockchain is actually helping governments in areas such as recognition of diplomas. And then we will end the master class engaging with you and showing that we can continue this discussion in 2021 by giving you a number of pointers to uh websites and material that is available online for free. Um so this is the agenda. Uh we will try to make it as interactive as possible and this is why we also brought with us some uh some tricks and tools.

One of them is menty that will allow us to interact with you live. Um, and I will ask Zira that is our menty wizard to explain how menty works. Zeta, can you hear me? Yes, I can. Can you hear me?

I can hear you well and clear. Perfect. So, I will introduce the menty. Um, it's very simple. It's kind of So, those who have used Lido before, it's kind of the same concept.

You just have to go to ww.menty.com and enter the code 6590967. Once you're there, I'm going to share my screen now and we're just going to have two questions ice breakers to introduce the session. Give me one moment.

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All right, we're going to move on to the next slide. So, did you know that we had a learning package to help pilot FC? These um the learning package contains the video tutorials, the webinars and workshop and a toolkit. Didn't know. Maybe you should try subscribing to our social media and news flash.

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Now let's return back to the presentation. Perfect. Thank you for those who participated. So as I said we will be going back and forth with menty questions uh to know if you are attentive first and foremost. So uh to answer the questions you will actually need to pay some attention to our speakers.

But as I said, you will definitely learn a lot. And I believe that the first step is really to pass the floor to my colleague Pierre Maro from DG Connect working on the policy side of EBSI and blockchain in general in Europe. Um, coming from the European Commission Don. Uh, Pier, can you hear me? Can you say something?

Yes. Hello, I can hear you. Is it the same you? Do you hear me? I hear you loud and clear and I'm very happy that you were able.

So good evening uh everyone. Uh so I'm Pier Maro. I work for DG connect uh within the European Commission. So DG connect is in charge of digital policy in general and uh I'm working for the unit dealing with digital innovation and blockchain and um as part of this blockchain activities we cooperate very much with with other department from the commission in particular my colleague from from digit I will have to to come back to on that for when we'll further introduce EBSI so next uh next slide um to give you an overview about the action that we have the initiated at the EU level in order to support blockchain activities with the broad ambition to make Europe a global leader in in those distributed ledger technologies. So um we have we have already set up different initiative and will continue to do so in the in the coming years.

But one of the main initiatives that we have created is we have formed a partnership with all the the member state. So 27 member state plus Norway and Shenstein who cooperate in order to support the development of of blockchain within Europe. And in particular, one of the key objective of this partnership is to work with the commission on uh what we call this European blockchain service infrastructure that will be further presented to you uh today. Yeah. Uh but there are other activities that we that we we plan to launch in the context of this partnership.

uh next year for instance we plan to launch European regulatory sandbox with the support of the partnership where uh it will help startup or play players to get uh to be engaged in a dialogue with regulators in order to get more legal certainty about the solutions they propose and not only in their domestic area in their own country but also uh for being able to deploy their solution all across Europe and so that's the ambition and this is what we'll put in place next year in with the support of the reopen blockchain partnership. Then we are also engaged with not not too fast we are also engaged with with let's say the private sectors in particular through the association in ADBA the international association for trust in blockchain application that we we helped to to to kickstart in in in the beginning of 20 29 um 99 sorry 2019 uh sorry for that. Uh so we have regular interaction with the stakeholders through this association and uh for those who have not joined the association yet we invite you to to do so. Uh we have also launched and it was one of the first action that we launched at the sea level one of the major action that we launched at the C level. We have created a European blockchain observatorian forum which is a a forum to connect different expert and regular workshop are organize in order to to address a thematic thematic um focus concerning blockchain.

One of the recent blo workshop that we have organized was about CBDC. Another was another one was about supply chain. The forum has also produce a paper about the different ecosystem in the different EU member state. So it's a very relevant initiative that I I also invite you to follow. Of course, we invest a lot not only in research innovation for blockchain through our research innovation program at UE, but we also invest in capacities.

So that's what we have done for FC through the SE program and next year we'll have a new program that will help us to reinforce it. I will come back to that. We also support investment through the open investment fund. We have support let's say venture capital uh fund investing in AI and blockchain. It's working quite well.

And uh last but not least, we also aim to promote a regulatory framework which enable to innovate in particular through blockchain. And for that we have already made different legislative proposal for instance in the concern of crypto asset in the context of crypto asset. And uh next year there will be a a new proposal in the context of EU identity where we hope it will help to clarify for solution based on blockchain decentralized identity uh to be uh to contribute to this new new ways to identify within within Europe. Uh we also support standalization skills development. So that's in one slide our main activity that that's the slide for which I will be the the longer.

So next slide is just to highlight the fact that when we concentrate now on the support that we have provided through the FC project uh we started very concrete way in 2019. Uh now the work is uh is beginning more consistent during this this year with a lot of development specification and development work which have been done for the infrastructure itself but also for the different use case that we target in the context of the blockchain partnership and next year with the support of a new program called the digital euro program we expect to accelerate on the deployment of the infrastructure but also on the number of use case that will be supported and to support different players to exploit those capacities uh provided by ZFC infrastructure. Next slide. Uh yes, it is an illustration about the fact that we are working with 29 countries already now and uh uh we will come back to that but many most of those 29 country already host a note for the infrastructure. So we'll come back to that.

So all those 29 country are working with the commission. Next slide. Uh in term of priority use case or more exactly use case that have been selected by the blockchain partnership as a priority we have the notoriization of document. We have the uh the support to what we call a European selfidentity self identity framework. It's not exactly a use case.

is more a framework or horizontal let's say use case that also help for other use case to be implemented in particular the one concerning uh the exchange of authenticated diplomas when for instance a student wants to move from one university to another one or wants to present its education credential in the context of a future uh interview for employment and this type of thing. And we have a another use case which concern what we call trust data sharing between administration and in in first stage it will it will be implemented through a specific use case concerning taxation activities. We have three new use case that have been identified by the blockchain partnership. But we are now more at initiating the the discussion with member state representative in order for instance to decide for in particular to decide what will be the the focus the scope of the use case and then we'll go to the let's say user scenario and first functional specification and we plan to develop to go for development work uh in the in the in the course of of next year and the following years. Next slide.

Uh more quickly is just to illustrate what will be said further that we are now in a process where we are we are more advanced in preparing what will be this new infrastructure that will be operational starting from the end of the first quarter next year. And indeed it is time also to prepare for pilot but not only pilot but also for real implementation on top of this infrastructure for the use case that we have identified as a priority for the blockchain with the blockchain partnership but also for additional application that could be proposed by the by the stakeholders by the constituencies. Next slide. Uh indeed in the context of this partnership and considering the focus of the epsi infrastructure for public services we have engaged a lot with member state representative with representative of different administration. We have also engaged with some private players but this is something that we'll do in a in a more intensive way starting from next year.

However, we have launched already an action which is called the European blockchain pre-commercial procurement or PCP which is an open uh call for tender uh for uh procuring future capabilities future capacities of the of the BSI. So we procure research innovation type of activities for preparing future version in one or two years time of the of the FCM. So this call is open. It will be closed by the end of February of January sorry and it will prepare for future step of of uh in the context of uh of the implementation of first implementation of the infrastructure. We are also preparing kind of market consultation or stakeholder consultation uh in order to have um w solution providers that could uh work with with the BI infrastructure.

So uh starting from next year there will be more uh engagement with with private players in order for them to contribute to the FC project. I think that's it. Uh or do we have another slide? Yes, that's it. I don't know if we have time to take question or if we need to move forward but I will stay with you for till the end of the of the event if we have a Q&A for seen in the middle of the presentation.

So I think we will we will take the Q&A at that moment. Okay. Yeah, there are people posting their questions on the chat and asking questions. So I guess that we will be providing providing you with links uh whenever we see fit. Uh so keep an eye on that S if you can.

Yes. Yes, I will. Uh excellent. Thank you very much, Pierre. So now we have I believe a very good overview of uh what the commission is currently doing in the area of uh blockchain.

Um but there's still this question that we are asked sometimes is uh why is the commission together with the member states investing in in blockchain and why is this important for topic administrations? That's a good question. Um and I'm going to try to answer uh with a few slides. I will not go into very great detail. uh but the idea of my presentation is to explain why is blockchain relevant for public administrations and why is the commission helping member states to exploit the potential of blockchain.

So the first thing that we know is that uh the world is going digital. Europe is going digital and that you have seen with multiple communications from the commission explaining that Europe is going to go green and it's going to go digital. There will be a so-called twin transition happening soon. And what does this mean? And you already could see from K's presentation.

It means that all the documents that public administrations issue to citizens and businesses that we use today many times either as paper or as a card will need to go digital as well. And this is a transformation that is already ongoing. But we believe that in the near future it will accelerate. We will of course continue to use documents issued by government but they will be digital and this is why we are currently very interested to look into blockchain. So one thing that we need to keep in mind when we move from paper to digital the possibility of fraud actually increases because digital documents plain digital documents are very easy to copy.

And we took just some uh statistics to help us with this argument which means that when we will go digital we have to keep this idea of trust in mind or or trustworthy documents in mind. We want to facilitate the authenticity of documents and this ranges from as you could see their driving licenses, our diplomas, permits whatever it will go digital at some point in a trustworthy way. But keeping this in mind, we know that there are several ways to do it. And typically what governments have been doing is to use the so-called digital post pattern. You can also see it as the intermediary pattern where there is a player typically on in paper we would call it the post office or the digital post office that exchanges the information and that gets the information real time from the data source to whoever requested it.

So this is what we are seeing here is the classical pattern. The user is in contact with some public administration that then exchanges information with another intermediary and typically the sender and the receiver here are part of what we call a digital post office similar to paper and the data is fetched directly from the data source and then sent to the user. So the user is needing to trust the sender of his or her request. The the sender and the receiver need to trust each other because they are of course exchanging information and we have to ensure the integrity. So typically they have some sort of secure data exchange protocol and then the receiver needs to trust the data source and for us having all these players and intermediaries in place it's kind of normal and it kind of works and we have translated the paper version of post into different ways of implementing the digital post.

Typically the user is not in direct contact with the data source. He goes to some sort of portal. The portal communicates with the data source. The data source sends back to the portal. I go to the portal and you know that story.

What happens with blockchain is that we are changing the paradigm and this is the idea that we bring here which is to move to the idea of my personal digital wallet. And what does that mean? It means that in some near future what blockchain will facilitate is what we see on the screen and not only blockchain again it's very important this idea of self-s sovereign identity but blockchain has a role to play here and this is why governments are looking very carefully at blockchain is that the issuer of a document let's now assume it's a diploma will be able to exchange directly that diploma with the user through this idea of the personal digital wallet. Once the user has the information, it has control over the information and because we have blockchain, we can ensure the identity of the issuer. We can ensure the identity of the citizen and we can ensure the integrity and validity of the diploma.

Three fundamental elements. Once the user has the diploma in the digital wallet, it can basically present it to different types of verifiers. So we can think about I'm going to go to study abroad and I want to show my diploma so that they know that I'm a dentist for example or I'm applying to a job abroad and I want them to trust my diploma so that I can have for us what is very important workers mobility students mobility in Europe as European Commission and the member states and this is why EBSI needs to be an European project bringing together the member states because we want to facilitate mobility in the single market. We don't want blockchain to create new barriers to mobility. We want to work together with the member states so that this digital wallet so that blockchain works across borders.

And I think this is the answer to the question why is the European Commission involved in all this? We don't want barriers. We want to facilitate the trust across the EU so that we can all benefit from this digital revolution. Let's continue then. What sometimes uh people think blockchain is, it's actually not so true.

Blockchain is not a new uh protocol to exchange information. Blockchain is this trusted ledger that facilitates the verification of information through cryptographic means. It's not so much about the old pattern of I exchange information back and forth and I have to ensure the integrity. Actually the exchange of information now it's less important because what really matters is how we cryptographically verify the information the identity and how we can ensure greater control by the citizen or by the business of the data itself. It's a different paradigm.

Let's continue. This will be explained by my colleagues. But what we want to achieve in the end is greater data control by the citizen. We want to have this idea of data minimization or selective data disclosure so that I can select the data I show to whom without needing to provide all the information at all times like in all paper documents. I want to be able to trace back the information to its origin.

I want to be efficient and have low costs while doing verification processes online because verification processes is what combats fraud. If I'm able to verify the authenticity of information, I'm able to know is this document issued by the right entity to the right person. Has the document been modified or not? And this is the game that we are trying to let's say play with the member states is to help them in this transition. My final slide is just a summary of all that is happening in the world.

It's really big picture. So we are going to a very user centric paradigm. We are moving away for from the one sizefits-all. We are going to aworked system fully distributed. Moving away from the hierarchical and centralized classical model.

We are moving away also from closed and proprietary and open and collaborative. And this is why EDSI is open. So the member states are cooperating. All the information is available. It's done in a collaborative way and reuses as much as possible the ongoing results of the standardization world.

So we are together with the Gon cooperating with the standards making organizations and ensuring that whatever comes out of EBSI is of course as reusable and open as possible. We are committed to that since day one. And this is I leave you with a big picture so that you can see beyond EBSI. This is really the world moving to this digital um society and we hope to excite you and get you involved together with us in this journey. And I leave you with Zira.

Za, are you still there? Can you launch? I'm here. Yeah. So, we have two little questions.

I'm going to share my screen again. We're going to go back on menty and put the code for a menty on 65967. And the question is, how would you describe your current interest for blockchain and epsy? Evaluating blockchain as a long-term strategy is the most chosen one for the moment for research purposes. We have ample of documentation on se digital epsy.

You can check it out. Um, in the end of Q1 2021, we have more documentations released. So stay tuned. subscribe to our social media or news flash so you can stay up to date with that. Good.

I'm going to give it a few more minutes and then we can move on to our next question. All right. Okay. So, the third question is if you have already started a pilot with blockchain, what are your experiences so far? What are the biggest challenges you face?

Okay, regulatory issues. Um, I don't know if you want to put in the chat explain why regulatory issues and if you have others you can please specify in the chat box. Okay, not enough value for end user also going up. Okay. All right.

Good. So, I can see the chat, but maybe there are some answers about the others that I can see right now. Okay. All right, let's go back to the presentation now. Thank you for those who participated.

Here we go. Let me see. Excellent. Requirement for central legal entity. Hello everyone.

Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you, Robert. Okay. Thank you very much, Pierre Jo and Zira. Um, my name is Robert.

I'm a manager of uh EPSI technical office and I would like to share with you uh some more insights based on uh the input of Pierre and Jo. So, uh I will also ask my colleagues um for help. Uh Kevin will present the EBSI version 2.0 capabilities in the context of different use cases. Kevin Ambroi is uh our product owner.

Uh I have also uh invited our architects uh Julian and Alan that are here to uh answer your technical questions uh if if you will have one. Uh next slide please. So having all of those challenges in mind uh dig uh together with digit um we are developing uh EBSI in a close cooperation with uh EBP so European blockchain partnership in order to put the blockchain technology at the service of public administration and uh to use a blockchain for purpose of verification of information and making that information trustworthy where we are uh from the technical point of view. So currently we have 25 uh nodes that are up and running fully operational and 11 nodes that are uh in the setup phase and will be operational very soon. uh two of those nodes uh two of those green nodes are hosted by the European Commission and uh we see that the adoption uh of of of the EBSI network grows.

We uh invite everyone uh every member states to uh evaluate the possibilities and also uh increase the amounts of nodes to make network more resilient. Uh can we have a next slide please? So what we are trying to achieve uh with this infrastructure the first thing is to uh increase the mobility uh to um in the cross border in a panuropean context. So uh to uh deliver uh infrastructure that will be able to use uh by by every citizens uh companies and also public administrations. But uh having in mind sustainability.

So we would like to uh support the green deal policies uh and um support more use cases that uh that are enhancing the environmental u friendly solutions. Um also very important for us and is actually I think um partially an answer for the question why we have this regulation issues is to become uh um as as a network which will provide the capabilities that are compliant with the European values and with the European uh regulations and directives uh such um GDPR Aidas NIE uh directive. We want also be an enabler to reinforce the blockchain revolution and the blockchain capabilities in Europe. And also uh we want to do it in a most transparent way and uh and an open way uh using uh open standards and market friendly approach um for for multi- vendor solutions. Next slide please.

So let's talk a little bit about the architecture uh of uh of ABSI. So uh as you can see we have here uh three uh main layers which is uh which is uh first the infrastructure storage and encore services. On top we have a business application layer but uh EBSI has been designed as a market friendly distributed blockchain ecosystem uh based on open standards and uh transparent governance model where the rights and responsibilities of its participants will evolve accordingly to well definfined governance processes. And uh let's uh start with this infrastructure uh layer. It's the network of interconnected nodes hosted by European Commission and member states.

Uh each node uh operates independently of each other and each host organization is responsible for its daily operation. It's worth uh to highlight that currently uh the node software is provided by the European Commission to member states in uh in three ways. As a solution uh commercial solution out of the shelf that you can use uh cloud friendly containers or as a virtual uh machine images. The notes uh includes the supported blockchain protocols and the onchain storage. Uh given uh that its specifications are open, other uh options and solutions uh are uh are foreseen to be available uh for for a later development of of a of infrastructure.

The hardware is a choice of the hosting organization and here uh we we see that there is uh there are solution inhouse public cloud or private cloud solutions and as long as they are compliant with EBSI minimum set of hosting requirements uh you can you can you can host an ani EBS EBSI note uh organizations uh that are hosting an ABSI note uh are subject to the terms and conditions and uh are reflected in the ABSI uh governance uh agreements. The next is a storage layer where the data that are not kept uh on chain are stored. And similar to the to the node, the offchain storage is also uh under the responsibility of the host organization that performs it daily uh operations. And similar to the infrastructure, the specifications for the storage providers are open and uh available soon for the market players to provide offchain storage uh solutions. regarding um regarding the core services.

The core services layer uh are the interfaces that are exposed by the EBSI nodes to enable u support for the business applications which is the top uh layer. Here we have a set of APIs, set of services uh that um you can combine together in order to deliver business values for uh particular use cases using the business applications. All of that uh we are wrapping uh with the governance uh and we provide of course the governance for for the for the platform but also guidelines for business uh business applications and business applications. Um EBSI is uh project is not aiming to develop those business applications but we expect we aim to uh get the third parties involved uh in that process. Uh for example universities that would like to um evaluate and and use the diplomacy use case.

So they would uh they could uh register diplomas uh as a verifiable credentials. they will um be able to use or build or develop uh software solutions that will be EBSI compliant to consume the the APIs the services that are exposed from the core service but also um we want to let those services to be available for citizens so uh they will have more control over their digital identity and and we'll be able to do it uh using the digit digital wallets and uh similar solutions for public organizations uh and for other European projects and initiatives uh to reinforce uh the trust source. Can we have a next slide please? So what we can achieve by using EBSI for first uh we can simplify the administrative processes especially the ones in a panuropean context in crossber context that are very difficult uh to to manage and to solve. Then of course enhance the trust uh between the stakeholders uh and increase the efficiency by by solving those um but by simplifying and solving those problems.

Um we do believe that this will also increase the transparency um of uh that exchange and verification. Uh we want to protect our European values. We want to provide a platform which will be compliant uh to with our regulations and also make uh the verification of data easy and uh and at low cost. So in other words, we would like to uh give the EBSI as a sort of a public good that will be used uh for different various of uh purposes. and use cases.

Next slide please. And in order to understand uh what we are doing uh it's good to get familiar with the user journey of Eva. There is a video on YouTube. I think that the URL actually is really a little. So maybe we will uh copy paste to showcase you some of the features that my colleague uh Saki will talk about later uh in a in a presentation.

So next slide please. And here we are coming back to the to our use cases that we are currently working on. uh we have uh the four pillars that we've started with but we already have in the radar three new use cases that have been selected and we will on board them very soon. So regarding the version EBSI 2.0 zero which will be the first operational uh version.

Uh I would like to give a floor to Kevin in order to present you the capabilities that the given um use case will provide in the context of the EBSI version 2.0. Kevin, thank you. Robert, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you.

All right. Thank you, Robert, for the introduction and thank you everybody for being here. So uh without further ado we can move on to the next slide please. All right. So uh in the next couple of minutes uh I would like to uh spend some time with you trying to um describe the value of um of epsi the value that will be delivered by uh the end of Q1 2021.

um whether you are a natural person here we use generic terms but whether you are um a student whether you work for a public administration whether you work in even in the private sector so I would like to uh give you a further understanding of what uh what's in it for you uh uh using epsy in the future so let's look at let's look at the first use case so what we mean with SSI uh as part of 2.0 Zero is uh a use case that will uh deliver features for three types of actors. A natural person, a legal entity and uh what we call u inc boarding service. Uh you TRA stands for trusted registration authority. Uh you will hear a couple of terms and a couple of acronyms and I will try to describe them all.

But let's start with what uh you as a natural person should be able to do. As a natural person, you should be able to on board on it. That means that you should have access to a wallet, be able to download it either on your phone or on your laptop and use it. Set it up and and and and set it set up your your identity and use it. You should be able to request the issuance of a verif verifiable ID.

I'm going straight to line number four. And once you have requested that issues a verifiable ID from a legal entity, it can be from university. You can then use it use this verifiable ID to authenticate and to perform an action with um with that legal entity or with another further on as a network person you should be able to request a verifiable attestation. So what is a verifiable attestation? We will spend some time unpacking that a bit further, but that's a type of credential that's tied to uh to you as the natural person and it can be in the context of um uh the diploma use case which we'll see in a second.

A diploma any credential uh that can be used and shared with another uh entity. Once you have requested the verifiable atestation, you should be able to present it to another party. As mentioned earlier as a legal entity here staying vague uh we're mentioning a legal entity but in the context again of diploma uh one uh can think of a university well you should be able to of course on board on this if in order to provide the services to the users the network persons the students and you should of course be able to set up verifiable ID authentication uh a system that allows you to um deliver and manage um verifiable IDs to network to your students. Third um under SF on boarding services so the registration authorities should be able to register a verifiable ID issuer. There's an error on miss you should also be able to register a trusted registration authority another one and you should be able to register a verifiable ID data schema in the trusted schema registry.

here. Uh let's try not to go too technical. Um registering a verifiable ID data schema in a trusted scanner registry simply means that you would register uh the data model the data that makes up for a diploma for example in EPS so that it be uh validated whenever diploma is used in the future. So that was all um at a very high level. Now let's try and uh dive a bit deeper and apply it to the diploma use case.

Can you go to the next slide please? All right. So here you can see that the diploma is heavily uh relying on on the use case. We have a natural person a student. We have an educational organization uh clearly a university.

We have a third party which can be a university which can be another type of relying party. We can discuss we can discuss that a bit later. And you have the accredit or the accredititation organization which here can be um depending on the countries the ministry of education or any organization which is uh supposed to control who can write on the ledger, who can write on epsi and who can issue a diploma. basically an organization that controls what um a university can do. Um so let's go as a network person as a student I should be able to on board and request a credential as we see as we saw earlier that means requesting a verifiable ID from a university I should of course be able to share credentials at large and we'll see that further how we can request validate and share a diploma with other institutions as a university I should be able to on board to request a credential as to um and here you can see that as we start with the third line assigning a new diploma verifiable credential to a legal entity there's a tight uh connection between the university and the accredit the accreditation organization in that case the accreditation organization assigns a new diploma to a university next as um now can we go back to the previous one Thank you.

[snorts] Similarly, for um the registration of an educational organization, the accredititation organization registers a university so that this university be able to issue um diplomas. Further on, the university should be allowed to register a new diploma verifiable credential that by requesting it to be registered with the uh the agreement of the accreditation organization, the ministry of education. [snorts] Um the the the university should be able to request to uh to be accredited accredited to issue diploma. before even being able to issue a diploma to a student, a university should be able to request uh the right to issue that diploma. the third party here.

Um, so it can be another university or can be another uh relying party that should be able to on board that should able to request a credential that should be able to support um uh either activity that belongs maybe to that is delegated uh by an accreditation organization but that is not in the scope of FC2.0. Further on though within FC2.12.2 two, who knows, three, uh we would and we could imagine that a third party would be able to suspend a credential to suspend a diploma or to even revoke a diploma should there be a need for that.

Moving [snorts] on to the accredititation organization. The last case let's take the example of uh ministry of education for example it should be such an organization should be able to assign a new diploma to a legal entity to the university to register the say the university so that it be able to issue a diploma. uh it should reply to the request to register a new diploma from the universities and it should uh reply whenever there's a request from university to issue diploma. Additionally, an accreditation organization should be able to register um quality assurance agency into the trusted accreditation registry. Um finally it should be able to to be added to the trusted sorry it should be able to request to be added to the trusted accredititation register itself.

Next slide please. All right. So the third use case is a bit um lighter in terms of actors because we only are looking at natural persons and legal entity. Um here you can already notice that um both natural personality can perform the same actions. However, the differences or at the level of the data that you have access to and whether you authenticate or not meaning um the notoriization use case relies on um on a work performed by the European Court of Auditor which works with public data, public records.

It is important. It is um a requirement for to documents to be available to everyone. However, the level of granularity of the of the data is key and that's what Pepsi will uh will enforce. So both as a network person and legal entity, I should be able to on board to request um and perform the authentication to request the the generation of the ID and authenticate with it. I should be able to notoriize the document together with with its metadata.

I should be able to by what we mean with notorizing by the way that means um generating a hash for a particular document and being able to retrieve it further. Um, next I should be able to retrieve and browse the notoriization history of any document based on the hash or just by trying to upload this document and having its hash calculated to make to verify whether it belongs to the system. I should be able to visualize notoriization details. Here we're thinking about metadata and simply verify the existence of an authorization with its metadata. Further on, I should be able to notoriize a version of a document and the version should be persisted on um on epsy.

I should be able to store notoriize documents metadata on the storage and here we are talking about external storage. [snorts] I should be able to register the data on a smart contract by definition uh that is onchain and I should be able to perform a data linkage. That means that uh should it be needed for a particular case I should be able to use two existing um authorized documents and link them uh with a relevant hierarchy if uh next slide please. All right. So this is the fourth use case, the trusted data sharing.

So this is as introduced earlier. This is a use case that is um led in partnership with uh digit taxes and in that particular case we have three actors. a member state entity which might be a taxation authority, a consulting member state entity which might be customs preferably from another country and a group administrator who will um basically belong to a third type of organization. So as a member state entity of course I should be able to on board and I should be able to verify an existing record. When we talk about records, we're talking about existing companies and any transaction related to uh that uh record.

I should be able to register in the record, update and delete as needed. Um I should be able to consult information about the sharing group. It goes without saying that some data needs to be uh strictly uh managed and should be uh allowed for access by um tightly controlled group. So that's what uh the group administrator will do and by that action it will give access to the member states and to the consulting members about these groups. [snorts] Uh finally the member state entity should be able to consult information about the sharing group member.

So at group level or at group member level uh there should be of information available for the member state. the consulting member. So the customs uh authorities should be able to on board very logically to verify an existing record by the company uh should be able to consult uh the information about the sharing group and consult information about sharing group member. Finally the group administrator should be able to manage at large um the rights and the access of uh every group and every group member. Uh so by creating, updating, deleting sharing groups or adding, removing members to or from a sharing group.

Finally, the group administrator should be able to update the rights of any sharing group member. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Zyra, can we uh can we move to to menty to see if what we were trying to uh pass and explain was Yes, of course. Well received.

Of course. Um All right. So, do you have a blockchain project that you would like to connect with EPC? Zra, we don't we don't see your screen. Uh at least at least I'm not uh maybe maybe it's not.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah, it's coming. Okay, let me put on my screen. All right.

Okay. Can you see it now? Yes. Yes. Perfect.

So, um for those who put others in, could you put in the chat box which ones? We have a majority at yes. So we're persuasive, but we see like an equal to no. Do you want to explain why no? I'm going to stay here for a few more seconds and then we move on to our next question.

All right, let's move on. So imagine that tomorrow you create a pilot scenario. Which audience so end user would you primarily target? I see a lot of enterprises um students. Now we have a whole variety of different uh different audiences.

Uh sustainability. Okay. the working population. I see also students. Students again.

So yeah, we also noticed that the diplomacy use case seems to be well recognized. Mhm. People exchange goods on international level. Yeah. Supply chain.

And this is something that we are thinking. Can you be a bit more specific? That's a nice one. Userentric you know userentric [snorts] universities patients people traveling. Okay.

Interesting. Nice. Nice journalist. All right. Let's move to our next question.

So imagine that tomorrow you create a pilot scenario. What are the needs that you would like to meet first? Privacy. I think that's a very important one. Identify business value for blockchain citizens programming capacity regulation.

Yeah, that's that's our daily bread and this is the the the the most difficult part to have regulations align with all of the member states and uh we all working hard on that together with uh our uh great conveners of of use cases and also uh convenor of a technical group and uh it usually goes around endless discussions and endless meetings. talking and talking and trying to find an agreement arrangements. We're getting there, Robert. I also see this. Yeah, I also noticed that uh the tokenization uh aspects like the supply chain and uh crypto assets are coming back.

So uh I do believe that at some point of um EBSI evolution we will start to work on those. I think uh it will be sooner than than later uh as the new use cases that are coming already having um this included. So we will work also on that part. Great. Let's move on to our next question.

What are the main objective you would like to achieve? So the most significant advantage to you this is more of value chains. Okay. Improve your identity control. Getting high.

I also notice um where both questions uh on the chat and in case if if we will not be able to address all of those during the session, I strongly invite you uh to connect to our community website um EBSI community website about which you will uh be informed later on uh in a presentation. Should we move on to the next question? I think this is the end of it though. Let's see. For us, it's a it's a very important input.

Uh we we really do um listen everybody So we see that uh we need to provide a self-serving identity European self-serving identity solution right high consensus there I see a few others could you please specify in the chat notoriization documents. Also, in the first questions, we had more people putting in um universities as end users and now we have a little bit less here, which is interesting. All right, let's move on to our next question, which is nothing. Thank you. Let's go back to the presentation.

Thank you for those who participated. Can you see the screen? Yes, we see the screen. Yes. Uh I think there is a moment for a Q&A now.

Uh looking at the time uh and uh looking at the fact that that that we give answer also via the chat. I don't know if we want to have an open Q&A now. Um Albert uh it all depends uh on our participants and organizers. I think we are here to to serve you. We are here to address your questions.

But let's see what uh Victoria Yes, Robert. I think uh maybe we could answer some of the questions because there is quite a lot of questions in the chat. So if Yeah, if you do a Q&A now, I think that would be great. But there there there is so much of them that it's hard to pick. Yeah.

Yeah, [laughter] I see that uh I see that Alan and and Julian are addressing uh those as they as they come. Yeah, maybe you can comment some of them uh openly so everybody can can follow. Alan, do you want to comment maybe to the whole audience some of the answers you were sharing? Uh hi. Okay.

So there were some questions about the uh the protocols used by EBSI. So uh EBSI is currently implementing two the Ethereum protocol uh using IBFT consensus and uh Hyperledger Fabric uh to support several use cases. Uh but as I mentioned several times all the business capabilities are built in a sense that they they minimize the dependence of the underlying protocol. So to achieve the highest level of interoperability uh of the EBSI to complement uh to complement on that uh we already envisage on boarding uh other protocols and um our technical governance uh group uh already uh prepared the process of onboarding a new blockchain protocol into the EBSI. to EBSI.

Uh we aim to develop it as technology agnostic solution. Uh robot do you want to have a question? I there is a question there is a very interesting question about the wallets because it's very a very hot topic in a basi uh project. So uh it's Susan who asked do you have design a specific wallet or is it an open ecosystem to have many wallets. So currently we are um trying to um find the best possible solution for the wallet and we we realized and also in discussion with the member states and convenience we uh came to conclusion that the wallet needs to come from from the market uh from from the outside of the ABSI because it shouldn't be commission u which is developed veloping the the wallet solution.

It should be um member states initiative um company initi some some companies initiative in order to deliver those. So yes indeed we we foresee um the different solutions for wallets more about this. Yeah, maybe to on on the wallet aspect. I mean uh indeed the the the idea is that we do not develop as a component of of the FC the wide solution ourself but uh we want to we have different option in front of us and one of them one of them is to work with some countries with which have already some project to propose a wallet which is meeting some specific requires. ment um and the other so we we are already engaged with a few of those country to to to start to to see how if their solution can can be compliant with with FC and then we want also to consult the market but it doesn't mean that we'll take any solution from the market in parallel of when we prepare for this consultation we're also preparing for the different type of condition that we should impose for using such a wallet in our FC infrastructure.

So um but indeed there will be a consultation that will be prepared for for next year. I'm not sure that the consultation will be completely finished uh during the first quarter but it is something that we we plan to do for next year and uh but the message is not that we are going to take any solution coming from the market. It will be there will be additional requirement that we'll have to to prepare. Thank you very much Pierre for for clarifying uh the this this situation and also indeed the member states initiatives are also very very important for us as uh we are already in touch with some of them evaluating possibilities to onboard their solution. Okay, let me answer a question about storage.

Uh so the question is uh how apps stores data. So apps store uh pro provides a generic capability for different use cases to store data that is replicated across all the nodes uh in the network. Uh and how this storage is used of course depends on the use case. So whether this is encrypted or not public or not. Uh so it's on the use case on the business level uh where uh where they decide.

Hey apologies um Prince this side I did put a couple u questions in the chat um slightly off the use cases that you presented. First of all I would like to say thank you so very much for such a nicely curated session and so openly uh you know making it available and discussing it. I did uh I am kind of curious about uh the energy projects going around the world and I saw Europe's plans and there was some involvement with blockchain. So I'm just curious uh where is that on the road map for uh FC um and then over and above I understand that uh it's hyperledger that we are leveraging at the moment but we're also saying we'll kind of make it generic. Uh we don't want to be we want it to be technology agnostic.

Um I'm just curious as to what is the number of transactions that you uh envision or that you've estimated and then how far is hyperledger able to support you at the time. So here once again uh we are we are supporting currently two blockchain protocols uh one is uh Ethereum protocol and then also uh hyperledger protocol. So um for for the details regarding the transactions um I would kindly ask Alan or Julian to provide more insights as they are working on on those uh infrastructure topics um on a daily basis. Uh I will I will uh just add something here uh Robert on top of what you said uh EBSI by design it's multi-protocol multiblockchain protocol. The fact that we just started with two existing protocols doesn't limit us to extend the number of the protocols that will be on boarded.

Uh regarding the number of transactions, we know that we rely on Ethereum and on Hyperledger Fabric. So the number of transactions that are made available by these two protocols, it's also implemented in EBSI. Uh as soon as we have requirements that uh ask more uh transactions per second or different kind of transactions, we will open the discussion and we will look in other technologies in the market in other protocols in the market that can fulfill this kind of requirements. That's great to hear and I'll probably bring uh my business associates through PCP. Uh but just to mention uh from what I know of Archain uh they really started before Bitcoin and they've surpassed Visa at this point.

They're able to do uh through one shard which is part of the network over in about 10,000 transactions per second. But I'll bring it through uh PCP which is the route uh for everybody as I understand. Yeah, I think PCP is really a good uh entry point to propose solutions, to propose scalability solutions, to propose uh tools and methods and protocols that are maybe uh new that are maybe uh prepared to be tested, prepared to be benchmarked, prepared to be on boarded and of course uh we are open to evaluate any performant protocol in the market. Thank you. Yes.

And along this line, so beyond the PCP and and the work which is done for evaluating protocol in the context in the current context of of EBSI, it's also our intention to to launch additional activ benchmarking activity that will help let's say to uh yes to benchmark the new technology. So if someone claims that in term of throughput it has an outstanding product it will be there will be a way by putting in place a network of competent centers working with also on joint methodology to be able to assess that. Um the same if solution is supposed to be a really green one sustainable one uh with very low energy consumption. So all those type of things we we envisage starting from next year to put in place a new action that will help to uh benchmark those different solution provided by the market and this will be related to the FC project but it will concern also other solution that may be not integrated in FC. So that's indeed a in the context of the blockchain partnership a priority that we have also for for next year.

We we we we hope to launch a relevant call for proposal during the course of next year. I think for a matter of timing we need to we need to move on. Uh I think we need to to we can continue answering the question via the chat but uh we need to move on in the presentation I think. Um so I suggest that uh that we go to the fourth part uh which which will be hosted by uh by Kevin and myself. So um so the idea here to to build on everything that we have uh that we have said so far is to discover a key capabilities through a scenario a scenario example.

uh this scenario will be focusing on diploma. You will hear a little bit also on se uh self-s sovereign identity. So I guess this is uh of high interest seeing the the answer to the to to to the mentee. So for the sake of the exercise and to make it very pragmatic, let's look at it from the eyes of uh an organization that would like to integrate an application with uh with EPC. So the first steps that you need to to actually do is to uh is to create your scenario, your pilot scenario, your implementation scenario.

You need an audience, right? So uh what is the end user that you are trying to uh target? You need uh a need basically. what is the need that you're trying to solve? You need an organization objective.

So as an organization, what do I fulfill as an objective? And you need of course in our case to select an FC use case that will that will uh that will help make it making it happen. Um so as uh uh Robert uh explained we have started uh exploring or illustrating the FC capabilities with the Eva journey. And let me remind you what is the Eva journey in two minutes. Eva is in fact a Belgian student.

She has a bachelor degree at the University of Rent in Belgium. and she's going through a journey where she will apply for a master degree in the University of Roier and Virgil in Spain. She will get her degree and apply for an internship in a company. Um then she will apply to get funding because she wants to create and start her own business in Italy. So basically this the journey of Eva and I invite you to have a look at the video illustrate the different use cases that have been explained by Kevin earlier.

But to stay relatively simple in this example that we are going to show we are going to select part of the scope here which is basically Eva that wants to apply for a master degree in the Spanish university. So if we go back to the different elements that we need, we uh have our audience which is Eva the the student uh she wants to apply for a master to study. So she has a need. We want to do this for simplifying administrative processes enhancing trust and increase efficiency and we are going to leverage on the FC use cases and capabilities self-s sovereign identity and diploma management. So let's get started with our design question which is how to help European students and universities facilitate the insurance and sharing uh and verification of educational credential across border in order to enhance free mobility of students and make the process more efficient and trustworthy by using epsy.

So let's get started with our scenario. Once we have uh this it's important uh that you will have to do uh three big uh important tasks. So first you will have to define your ecosystem of stakeholders and their benefit because again we are not talking about one organization but we're talking about an ecosystem that will benefit. Then you are going to identify a number of features you need and you're going to model your scenario and identify the prerequisite that need to happen for this scenario or this pilot to work and then once you have your requirement you can then define the LC API. So the core services that has been exposed earlier by my colleagues uh you will be able to do that mapping uh on your based on your require.

So we are going to go through these different elements and as a as a reminder and it's the last one about the scenario or scenario is the following one. Eva just finished her bachelor degrees at the University of Gent in Belgium. She want to apply for a master degree at the University of Roier Vir in Spain. And to do so, she has to request the insurance of her bachelor diploma from the University of Gent and then share this bachelor diploma with the University of Roier Veri for verification. So now that we have our scope, let's get started with our stakeholders and the role that uh that that they have.

And of course Kevin please intervene any at any moment if if you feel uh we need to complement the information that I am giving. So we have uh the student Eva who is our user and the main role will be to request the insurance of the verified verifiable attestation the diploma. Then we have the University of Vent represented by Udo but also by automated systems of course which will be considered as the issuer and for which the main role will be the verification of the request of Eva and the issuance of the verifiable attestation or diploma. Then we have the University of Roier with Miguel and automated system which is the verifier and the main role will be to verify the verifiable presentation and accept the request of Eva so that she can access to the master degree the university and of course in in our case we have the Belgian government so presented by Isabel and automated system. Um these are basically the trusted registration authority or the trusted identity issuer which will issue the verifiable ID and register the on the EC ledger.

So in our scenario uh the exchange of information will need to happen and I take back here what Jo presented but applied in our case we will need uh the issuer the user the verifier and the blockchain and obviously there are two key concept that we need to understand here the verifiable credential on one side and the verifiable presentation which will respectively enable the uh exchange trusted exchange of information between the issuer and the user and between the user and the verifying and let's go a little bit more in detail into this concept. So the first concept is a concept of verifiable credential. So basically it's an electronic information structured in a standardized way meaning from a semantic and format point of view and you have two types of verifiable credential. You have the verifiable ID which is a special form of verifiable credential used only for identification and au authentication purposes uh like a passport or national eid. It will contain information such as the family name the first name the birth date etc.

And then you have a second type of a verifiable attestation which can be divided into two separate things. First a special case of verifiable credentials used as evidence of attributes but without identification. So we are talking about diplomas, bus tickets, memberships, postal address. And we also have a special case of verifiable credential used as an evidence of permit or authorization such as a driving license or a work permit, an access control and so on. And then on the other side we have the concept of verifiable presentation which is basically which represent a minimum set of data uh passing from an entity to a relying party for a given purpose.

So meaning that this verifiable presentation is a combination of an extract of the verifiable ID and an extract of the verifiable attestation plus a given purpose. In our example, we could say the diploma for in a specific context which is the registration for a master course in the University of Roier Veri. So that's a little bit the concept that are important to understand and we are going to we are going to go uh for a little quiz and we have a last concept which is interesting and maybe here uh Kevin can also complement and help me is this idea of decentralized I identifier such as uh the deed I don't know Kevin you want on that [snorts] all right so indeed uh we've been mentioning it a couple of times and I saw even comments on the chat about the DID. So, um what does it mean and why is it important? Well, basically a DID it's it's a permanent and unique identifier that can be looked up uh to retrieve a DID document uh on the blockchain.

It describes uh how to interact with the DID owner uh via cryptographic keys uh and endpoints and service endpoints. Sorry. It doesn't provide any kind of information about the DID owner. That's also one of the key values of blockchain. Um uh next point the D the D leverage uh oh can we just come back please?

Thank you. Uh it leverages on the inherent properties of blockchain or distributed ledger. That means that the ID is uh onchain. It is decentralized as well and it is protected with cryptography. By creating by putting all these factors together basically it allows uh the D to be a temper proof and um distributed uh sequence of events which is which is basically persisted on on chain.

It allows any D owner to update and keep track of the changes in the D document rather than of any central authority. that makes a direct link with the what was presented by Joe earlier and this is really one of the key uh values of blockchain. Uh [snorts] here's an example of a of a metal in fire but we can move on indeed. Yeah. Uh indeed Kevin uh thanks.

So as we understand it's it's a really the verification processes associated to a given party and uh and basically it it's it helps first uh identify a party uniquely whether we are talking about the the issuer the owner or the relying uh party right and it is in fully under the party's control um you said that it's also stored on the FC C ledger to actually secure it. So that's how we will allow the verification processes basically and in our case uh it is the trusted registration authority that must authorize the user to store the deed on the ledge on the epsil ledger and uh third it activates of course the uh verification process because parties can check the trustworthiness of the information via the verifiable credential and the verifiable presentation thanks to is did that is stored on the ledger. One [snorts] one one thing to complement because uh this question comes back over and over what we store on the ledger on EBSI ledger does not have any personal data and is GDPR compliant. So that's a very important information. So that the DID so the the decentralized identifier is just a string of uh numbers, letters and symbols that are stored uh in order to help uh identify a user uh during the processes of verification.

So yeah, we don't store any any private data on chain. Thanks uh So uh we need to to to move on because uh indeed the timing is is going. So to summarize uh we need two things for allowing the verification. We need the did which is a string stored on the FC ledger. It does not contain personal data and it's done one time and on the other side we have the vids which is a set of data stored on the wallet contains personal data and as we said it's contextual and this allows for the verification post verification of information here it's a slide that actually summarizes uh all of what we have presented uh so and pictures all the concept uh that that uh that we have discussed.

Normally we had a little quiz uh but I think we are going to to to move on because we still have a lot to uh to present and I'm a little bit worried about the time. So let's I propose to move on. Zra if you are okay with that. Sure. Let's move on.

Great. Um so now that we have a I hope a good understanding of the concept it's also important to mention some prerequisites in order to play your scenario. Meaning that um in order for Eva to be able to share uh let's say request the diploma and share the diploma. Eva needs to set up of course a wallet and request a verifiable ID to a trusted registration authority. And we see here a number of things that Eva will need to do in order to make it happen.

downloading the wallet, configuring it, creating the deeds and storing it. uh request the registration of the deed on the FC ledger and the trusted registration authority will register this deed including the public key on the FC ledger and will issue the verifiable ID and send it to Eva and then Eva will get this verifiable ID and store it on the wallet which will allow Eva basically to start the diploma management the diploma request uh process and on the other side the university of Gent and Roi also needs to on board and register to their their diploma on Etsy obviously which is more or less the same process downloading the enterprise wallet configuring the wallet testing it creating a deed storing the deed and uh registering the on the epsil ledger. So now that we are set uh setting up um now Eva can really start the process of requesting the insurance of the of the diploma and what will happen is the following in our scenario. So first Eva will request the issuance of the bachelor diploma the verifiable attestation from the University of Yent. Then the University of Yent will issue the the bachelor diploma the verifiable attestation and send it back to Eva.

Eva will receive this and accept the bachelor diploma uh in store and store it in in in her wallet. And this is stored uh meaning that uh Eva can use it not only for the purpose of applying to the University of Roier but for other purposes like an internship or uh any kind of things. So on the second part of the the screen you have the the the process of basically Eva that will share the bachelor diploma with the university of roier verili in order to apply in this university and the university of verili will verify the this bachelor diploma and therefore we'll be able to process uh with the the enrollment but actually and this is a a very important element And I I I want to say that what you will see in a couple of minutes will be conceptual. Uh and to build on what Robert and and and Pierre said earlier, uh this is really to help you uh illustrate conceptually how we see uh these interactions in in in screen. So how this could look like.

So you see here uh and uh I invite Kevin of course to uh to comment and complement on what I'm going to say here. Uh we said that Eva request the insurance of her bachelor diploma to the University of Yent. So of course she needs to initiate the request by connecting to the University of Yent. Here you see illustrated on that screen. she will request uh the the the diploma insurance in the University of Yent.

And once this is done and she received the information from the University of Gent, she will be able through her wallet to basically select as you can see here the verifiable ID. So the credential that she needs to uh submit in order to submit the request to the University of Yent. Then inside the University of Yent uh of course the agent responsible here will have uh list of students and we will be able to select the students and submit uh the the the diploma to to uh to Eva and then after that Eva will receive this and will accept the bachelor diploma in her wallet uh in order to store it let's sayam if we could say it like One quick point about um about issue number three Saki. So as presented in previous slides, this step could also be automated or could be uh represented with uh the state with the University of G issuing the bachelor's degree. Um that request could be uh could be automated based on a on a very basic u uh business logic and it should it be manual should be required that a human validation then one could imagine that that that would be done by uh the administrator of a university and then from a probably more from from a desktop or a laptop than than a phone purpose of the the flow that's uh that that that that serves the purpose.

Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Um, so once this is done, we have the second part of the process. So, Eva will request on her enrollment at the University of Roier Villi and then it's a little bit the same logic. So she needs to connect to the to the University of Roier in order to apply to the university and she will initiate the action and this will basically trigger the the flow where again in her wallet she will be able to select now the two uh credentials that she needs to uh to send.

So the verifiable ID and the bachelor diploma, the verifiable attestation and she will submit the request to the University of Roier Villi who will be able to verify the authenticity of the the the diploma and accept uh this to proceed with the enrollment. So of course as I said this is uh this is conceptual it's to illustrate uh what what what we mean and the capabilities uh basically in a more in a user centric way and of course the point is to show you the potential because Eva is only and and and and I like this sentence because Eva is only the one single example out of the four million students that are graduated every year in in Europe. So actually we had a look at Rostat figures. The trusted diplomas market let's say has an huge potential. You can see here in the in in the figure we have 17 million students in 2008 uh in in Europe.

So bachelor, master and PhD. We have 2,500 high higher education institutions in 27 countries with more than 1 million teachers and as I said 4 million student graduated. These were the figures or the 27 member states in 2018. And actually more interesting is what you see here on the screen is that 9% of these 17 millions comes from abroad, 4% from Europe, Google, 2.5% in from Asia and 1.

5% from Africa. So it means that it's actually uh very high mobility student mobility that we see there. And then the third element which is uh important is that 5% of these 1.3 million so 700,000 are registered users who created Europas profile. So meaning that uh these amount of people are actually using standards like uh Europas to um to build their CVs uh to build credentials and and so on.

So the idea that we want to to share here is that students mobility in Europe is a huge market and Pepsi and Europas are uh as other things amazing enablers and as my colleague said uh earlier I think that the idea here is not that FC uh build wallet uh these wallets are expected to to come from you know different actors the following actors so software vendors from the from the private sector initiatives from member states EU le initiatives so this is really an invitation to think about that h you huge potential uh that we have behind behind the the trust diploma market just to complement it quickly we are working on um compliance uh facility which will uh compliance testing facility which will uh facilitate the process of onboarding um third party applications such wallets and and others. So we foresee this um conform conformance testing facility uh in further development of EBSI um platform and um we are also working sorry [clears throat] we are also working on EBSI wallet guidelines that will help also to uh facilitate the process of finding uh the solutions for onboarding the wallets And there is a lot of activities around uh conducted by uh our conveners from the SSF group. Uh so I think uh if you would like to have more insights about I would uh suggest to contact with them. Thank you. Thank you Robert.

I um I will now close close this part of the presentation. Also I invite Kevin and and Kevin will will be able to um accompany me in this conclusion. Um of course what we have presented was a high level and uh the functional requirement specification are much more let's say atomic and as you can see what we have presented is made of 39 steps. uh Kevin could be uh an excellent person to actually go through all of these steps with you now but I think it's not the purpose uh because it's also the the the moment to say that we are organizing demos and demo webinars where we present in more details all these uh let's say atomic step uh of of such examples and we will go through different examples diploma but also notoriization in the future. So no worries if you want to know more we invite you to uh to subscribe to our webinars and you will be able to get more detailed uh uh demo and my colleague Zra will will give a word on that in a few in in one minute of course.

Yes. Uh G. Yeah. Just one quick word on that slide and probably the following. Uh here you can see the 39 steps, the 39 API calls um back and forth that are needed to to fulfill that EPA journey that was described in detail.

And in the past couple of slides, we've come from basically identifying the functional steps um the the actors to that very low level uh description of the APIs. So you've come from your needs or the needs of Eva. Uh who should be involved in the process to what EPC can bring to you and that's uh the the last point I will make um well is an open source project and for that reason we have already have uh delivered a version which is a demonstrator only um but for which uh our APIs are already uh public and available on Bitbucket. uh these API as mentioned earlier or for a demonstrator version of FC they can be listed here. So you can see a sample of the APIs on the right the wallet API the ID hub etc.

So for any technical question any technical inquiry I invite you uh to refer to bitbucket and we can make the URL available. Just be aware that we will follow the same logic for FC2 and that by uh the end of the first quarter 2021 you will have um um a version two for many APIs, many new APIs. Exactly. Um and that between now and the end of Q1 you will be able to see more APIs being published um for you to to play with. So thank you.

Great. Thank you Kevin. It allows me to do a 30 minute uh 30 seconds. Sorry [laughter] conclusion to go back to my first point. We said we are going to do three things.

Defining the stakeholders and the benefits. That's what we did. Of course conceptually we model the pilot scenario with the different steps and the prerequisite that needs to happen. And here you can see the mapping of the APIs. So through that uh we uh give you an entire uh picture we hope and methodology also to design uh who knows the future pilot with with EPS.

So thank you very much. I will now give the floor to my colleague Zra who will explain you in more practical in a very practical way how you can get engaged with the FC community. Thank you. Thank you, Saki. Let's skip this part and just go.

Yes. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah. Just just uh because uh we also have the fireside chat afterwards with Sakim and Right.

Evan. So, can you do it in five minutes? Oh, yes. I'll just fly through it. Don't worry.

Sorry. So, please go ahead, Cider. And thank you. Yeah, no problem. All right.

So we're just going to quickly see what are the initiative that we're doing right now as a campaign communications and how you can get involved with EPS. Um just to get a quick explanation of what the learning package contains. Um we identified the piloting framework this year and which created the foundation of the FC piloting journey for member states and their public administrations. In collaboration with the European blockchain partnership, Digic connect and the conveners. We developed several materials to help the member states in their piloting journey.

This epsi learning package contains the video tutorials, a toolkit with the templates and a series of webinars and workshop which you're also able to participate later on. Then we continue with our demo webinars on the use cases and took participants along a user journey and helped them identify their stakeholders, their needs and opportunities given by EPC. In parallel, the conveners um worked on organizing cluster meetings with their stakeholders to identify these champions and early adopters. The champions of this um use cases are understood to be members who are in their advanced stages to pilot Epsy. After having identified these early adopters and champions, we are currently co-creating our next workshop with these conveners to engage and directly assist these stakeholders in piloting EPS.

We can go to the next slide. As you can see, we are organizing many activities for member states and their public administrations. However, you and your organization, whether public or not, can also engage with us. You will see here that there are multiple ways to interact with us. There's an ecosystem of resources which is available to you.

You can learn more about EPC and stay tuned on the activities um by watching our informative video tutorials um about EPC and blockchain. You can read our research paper which was written by Joel who is one of the speakers here today. You can also subscribe to our news flash which is a monthly mail-in newsletter which will keep you up to date on our policy and technical updates as well as other blockchain events and activities. And of course you can follow us on social media. If you want to start piloting EPC, you can start checking out our documentations which gives you ample of information regarding the architecture, the governance and legal reports.

You can read them, go over them. And if you're eligible to pilot FC, you can start by downloading the toolkit and start mapping out your stakeholders and their needs. As Robert has already stated, there is a call for wallet uh development that is coming soon. If you stay tuned and follow us on all the social media platform, you can learn about the guidelines and possibly become our next developer. Last but not least, if you want to get involved with FC and engage with our stakeholders, you can participate in our FC user community.

Once you do so, you can submit questions and ask questions and hope that the community answers your questions. Um, all of these available informations are on Seph Digital. Um you can just go on there and you can find all of these qu these information. If there are any questions I will take them now otherwise we will move forward to the menty our last menty interaction of the day. Yes exactly.

Um I see as yeah I see a question um you can download the toolkit on the FCCF digital website. We will paste it in the chat box here soon. Um let me go share my screen for the menty. Great. Thank you, Zara.

Yes. Let's do the menty. We have two more minutes maximum. Here we go. Fast tracking it.

So, would you like to be are you interested in participating in the call for proposals to build the EC wallet? Yes. No. Okay. It's anonymous, so you can answer.

It depends if you would like to put in the chat box. It depends on what we would like to know. Um yeah. Okay. Yeah, indeed.

Uh don't hesitate um to to to answer an anonymously to to this. It's important um great for us to know. Let's move on to our next question quickly. So, what do you plan on doing next? Do you plan on learning more about our learning package?

Um, watching our video tutorials, a toolkit? Would you like to subscribe to our news flash and follow us on social media? Nice. Like it. Like I said, I will post or me or my team will post the link in the chat box so you can find where to do this.

Oh, wow. This is nice. Let's keep it like this. Okay, we have a champion. Is there a winner?

Let's let's let's wait two two seconds. Is there a winner? Webinar and document. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Nice. We have a tie. No. All right.

Let's move on to our next question. Wait. Yeah, Robert, I was I was just trying to say that the webinars are in a very similar um setup like this event. So, we are we are used to uh to do this kind of events. So, I I I really I really like uh the numbers and the the answers and and u this session.

It's just amazing to see all of this happening. Yeah, same. All right, the next question is, what would you like? What did you like about the presentation? And here you can post whatever you want.

Again, it's anonymous or not. The level of detail, this is a credit to Saki as well. He took a lot of time preparing this. Mentiples. I like that part too.

Let's discuss opportunities. Nice. I think these are nice. Uh nice nice. It's also very very informative for us.

Um what you answer there. Uh that's of the of the mentee because it's anonymous no GDPR right I think Saki we will need to close the session I would like to thank you very much for organizers to to let us uh do this presentation to invite us for this event I would like to thank my great EBSI family for being here and supporting you all and for the most I would like to thank you for uh to to all of the participants uh and for your uh valuable inputs uh in the chat and in the other um channels. Thank you very much.