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

Snow’s Linkedin Profile & Personal Webpage

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vongohren/

https://vongohren.me/ 

Snows’ Javazone talk

https://vimeo.com/233629394

Diwala

https://diwala.io/

https://medium.com/diwala/the-story-of-diwala-5f8567ae71d1

https://medium.com/diwala/diwalas-ecosystem-76b35037a4c2

Zero Knowledge Proofs - Wired article

https://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, Uganda

https://www.britannica.com/place/Kampala

Blockchain

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp

Cryptocurrency

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cryptocurrency.asp

Oslo Blockchain Day

https://osloblockchainday.no/

Gnosis.io

https://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/

SWIFT

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/swift.asp

IBAN

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/iban.asp

Cryptographic signatures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature

Peer to Peer Networks

https://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 Platform

https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-primer/

https://medium.com/@adam_14796/understanding-decentralized-ids-dids-839798b91809

https://www.uport.me

https://sovrin.org

VC 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/

OAuth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth

GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

Brave Browser

https://brave.com/

Coil

https://coil.com/

Cinnamon.video

https://www.cinnamon.video/

Lever - Software for the Employee Recruitment Process

https://www.lever.co/about/

This show has been edited for content and brevity.