background - Researcher at [Cybozu - Simply put, a tool that can be implemented in companies and municipalities to enable conversations around data. - In North America, kintone is probably more famous than the name Cybozu.

  • Plurality is also beneficial for corporate use
    • The crypto aspect of Plurality is heavily weighted toward distributed ID, but distributed ID is not necessary when considering enterprise use
      • Distributed ID technology is designed to take care of cases where there is no trusted ID issuer
      • It’s the same in the corporate world, and many people in Japan today don’t see the need for distributed ID as a personal matter.
    • On the other hand, broad listening is a solution to a problem that many companies want to solve
      • Increasing exposure to Polis-like things will increase people’s literacy.
      • It would be nice if these systems were readily available.
      • Early adopter-like companies, departments and small communities will adopt it and spread it at the grassroots.

Where did you get the VESS Card?

  • ETH Tokyo is not participating.
  • Didn’t you have a wallet address?
    • There were. Several trusted friends told me that I should definitely experience STEPN, and I made it at that time.

Try it.

  • Maybe it’s just because it’s DApps, but I feel uneasy about the poor response time after the wallet is connected.
    • When I issued a connection with Mr. Seki, I had to retry twice on the spot.
    • I retried because I trust Seki-san, but in a business card exchange situation with someone I don’t particularly trust, I might not have tied up my wallet in the first place.
    • Concept of [Wallet
      • If you know it as a “wallet,” you might ask, “Why do I need to tie it to my wallet?” would be
      • When I heard about SoulBound Token at Plurality Tokyo, I understood that it is not just a “wallet” but can be an expression of personal identity.
      • This understanding is still not very widespread in the world.
  • Skills and unit price in my profile? Why not register your
    • I feel no incentive to register.
    • For example, I can write Python, but I don’t see the value in writing “I can write Python.
      • I don’t take jobs that say, “Write Python.”
      • Sidenote: For those with revenue from crowdsourcing or gig economy contexts, there may be an incentive to increase that revenue.
        • I personally am currently earning enough money to live on membership-based employment, so I have no incentive to do additional small work to earn money.
  • What kind of things would you write in your profile?
    • For example, if you work on a project with someone you are connected to on VESS.
      • May participate in collaborative projects that do not involve the transfer of money
        • The information in cooperation has a much deeper meaning than “I just know you, we connected in a business card exchange kind of way.
        • With that in mind, I created the Mitou Meikan/mitou-meikan.
          • People discovered through the IPA Exploratory Project may subsequently collaborate with others.
          • This kind of information is very useful and needs to be recorded
          • When the information stored exceeds a critical mass, people who need the information will refer to the information store, creating an incentive to update the information placed in the information store.
        • This is a wiki-style system, operating in a sexually benevolent manner.
          • For this reason, the number of people who can edit is limited by approval and we are short-staffed.
        • I think it’s a good future for VESS to become a verifiable credentials-like work history infrastructure.
    • Sometimes they’re creating digital public goods without the expectation of monetary compensation.
      • Recently, I translated Plurality Tokyo Keynote from Audrey Tang and provided it under CC0 after the management asked me if I could use it.
      • I have time and money to spare, so I have provided them free of charge, but I think it would be better for the social system to visualize such actions as contributors’ achievements, and for them to be retroactively funded.

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