Self-Sovereign Identity

12 How open source software helps you control your self-sovereign identity

Richard Esplin

All internet infrastructure depends to a great degree on open source software, simply because this foundational layer must be, in the words of Doc Searls and David Weinberger, “NEA: No one owns it; Everyone can use it; Anyone can improve it.” But with SSI, open source plays an even more important role. To explain this, we have tapped Richard Esplin, who for eight years held roles in sales, marketing, and product management at Alfresco, the largest open source content management system (CMS) company (acquired in 2020 by Hyland Software), and more recently director of product management at Evernym.

In 1984, the technology journalist Steven Levy published ...