Reproductive Dilemmas in Metro Manila

Self Sovereign Digital Identity on the Blockchain: A Discourse Analysis

“…Thus, assessing the concept through this lens, the recent book 'Fungible Life' that published in 2016 on the Singaporean Biopolis research centre, by Aihwa Ong will be revisited. The literature presented in the book discuss 'biocapitalism' in Asia 49 , riding on the definition that it is an exploitative pursuit of bodies (flesh and labour in different instances), driven by the motivation "…of making more of life that goes beyond enhancing the vital future individual consumers" 50 (Ong,12). The key tool that generates and expands the pursuit of 'biocapital' 51 in this case, is elaborated as genomic sciences, which she argues, operate within an interplay of biology, politics, the environment and market forces -a nexus that that is "…experimenting with different visions of the future" (Ong, 5) 52 .…”

“…Blockchain is a publicly accessible ledger, which in the case of Bitcoin for example, where all the financial transactions that have ever been executed are immutably and publicly stored: "…the [cryptocurrency] blockchain is seen as the main technological innovation of Bitcoin because it stands as a trustless proof mechanism of all the transactions in the network. Users can trust the system of the public ledger stored worldwide on many different decentralised nodes maintained by miner-accountants as opposed to having to establish and maintain trust with the counter-party (another person) or a third party intermediary (a bank)… blockchain allows the disintermediation and decentralisation of all transactions of any type between all parties on a global basis (Swan, 10)" 12 . As blockchain moved into the central discourse on technology from the fringes of internet forums and relevant clique cypherpunk gatherings, major multilateral and governmental institutions began to catch on and come up with the pioneering use cases of the technology -all of which mostly drawn into the aforementioned 'trustless' nature of the system that promises to get rid of the middleman (formally put, third party intermediary) in any transaction (most typically, the banks).…”