The decentralized, resilient ecosystem model powering a new generation of digital health services
The Challenge: Digital trust is the single greatest barrier to resilient, widespread mental health service delivery in the Asia Pacific. Fragmentation, security fears, and the challenge of proving personhood in an AI-driven world undermine user engagement and community wealth creation.
The Solution: The new Canadian-led blueprint, “Building Together”, outlines a paradigm shift for the APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health (dHMH). We propose a secure, AI-augmented, and financially sustainable ecosystem founded on Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Data Sovereignty.
The Foundation of Trust: This digital resilience platform is built on the secure identity principles being advanced by Ayra.forum and the First Person Project (a Linux Foundation collaboration). This guarantees private, autonomous Digital IDs & Verifiable Credentials & Wallets for all users, making onboarding frictionless and empowering communities to own, govern, and monetize their collective data assets. This is how we move from services being delivered to communities building their own secure digital future.
Action & Links
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My Damn Data: digital hub for mental health white paper (academic format) |
Deep Dive: The full white paper – explore the strategies for digital vulnerabilities, social responsibility, and technology integration (AI, Blockchain, SSI) |
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Quick Look: Visualizing the ecosystem – See the model, the core pillars, and the development roadmap at a glance |
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| Read the First Person Project white paper on decentralized identity and proof-of-personhood (trusted digital public infrastructure) |
Key Rationale for this Approach:
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fundamental concepts: Trust, Sovereignty (related to SSI/data ownership), and AI-Powered (emerging tech)
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highlights the core problem (Trust/Fragmentation) and presents the core solution (SSI/Data Sovereignty)
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gains technical credibility by aligning high-level nonprofit sector initiatives with the leading-edge decentralized identity infrastructure being adopted by bodies like FPP and the Linux Kernel project
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maintains the viewpoint of empowerment: “…empowering communities to own, govern, and monetize their collective data assets.”
Pleased to collaborate – contact Lyn at [email protected] or via LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/lyn-brooks-08861948
