Yoma Rules!

Lean Governance

DIF Africa – 2^nd September, 2021

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Nicky Hickman (Yoma Ecosystem TF Lead at ToIP)

Gabriella Laatikainen, Taija Kolehmainen, & Maha Sroor (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Fredinand Fredrick (Yoma Trust Assurance Lead at ToIP)

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Agenda

1. Intro to Yoma and Lean Governance Approach (Nicky)
2. Overview of the EGC  (Gabi)
3. The Yoma Model (Maha)
4. Governance as Risk Mitigation (Fred)
4. Next steps – Yoma (Nicky)
5. Q&A / discussion

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A story about building

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Agenda

1. Intro to Yoma and Lean Governance Approach (Nicky)
2. Overview of the EGC  (Gabi)
3. The Yoma Model (Maha)
4. Governance as Risk Mitigation (Fred)
4. Next steps – Yoma (Nicky)
5. Q&A / discussion

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Matching

• global demand for impact with youth agency
• aspiration with experiential learning
• Enriched CVs with labor market

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Building Trust

• in yourself
• within community
• Within and in ecosystem

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Individual yet at Scale

A Market Creating Innovation

While Talent is Universal Opportunities are not

System

Innovation and learning is fragmented and development industry is due for a major disruption

Individual

The future innovation ecosystem needs to put the emphasis on the individual – the human and the human journey need to be the centre piece.

Agency

“Players first” the ecosystem is built for purpose and with youth

Why Yoma?

Radical youth–centric change

BLOCKCHAIN/DLT

Applied learning through volunteering & impact tasks

Local solutions to local problems

Opportunities (e.g. scholarships)

Entrepreneurship

Employment

Experiential learning

individualized pathways

Grow

Impact

Thrive

Grow

Thrive

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Impact

Youth Ageny Marketplace

Due to Self-Sovereign Identity youth are 100% in control of their own data.

… a marketplace of opportunities

Youth Livelihoods

• Youth receive exchangeable token for SDG impact tasks – a first to acquire financial literacy and market knowledge
• Yoma allows youth to tap into the global impact market (i.e. CO2 offset)
• Yoma creates a trust profile through blockchain and a much richer digital CV containing transferable skills and character scores

Open Source

• The matching capability powering the yoma ecosystem will be made available as an open source architecture to enable youth to further develop yoma & the ecosystem.
• The open design and source principles of the yoma ecosystem would allow other similar initiatives to build on it and establish human centered digital ecosystems empowered by SSI and privacy preserving AI focusing on women empowerment, the green economy, migrant communities, etc.

Inclusive Growth

Data and Technology for Good

• Our aim is to be some of the first projects to combine the ToIP stack with privacy-preserving AI capabilities. We aim to develop this as a world first capability to ensure the data privacy of youth is maintained at all times
• We are developing a matching algorithm using psychometric assessment, machine learning and privacy preserving AI

Tackling current and urgent topics

• Yoma is planning to become a franchise model that can be adjusted for different local needs such as climate action, focus on youth on the move or skills development
• Yoma is rolling out first MVPs for “Green YOMA” in Colombia and Malawi together with the African Drone and Data Academy

… a marketplace of opportunities

Grow

The Beginning

• Globally, one out of five young people between the ages of 15-24 live in Africa and are largely underemployed or at worst, unemployed. In most African countries youth are twice as likely to be unemployed than adults (ILO)
• Yoma emerged from a human-centred design process as a solution to the issues that youth identified in workshops across Africa

Partnership

Yoma is an open partnership space between impact funders/investors (Botnar Foundation, BMZ, UNICEF), Governments, the private sector (Goodwall, employers, tech start-ups), youth grassroots organisations and young people themselves.

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The Progress

• Youth interest proven through various challenges and campaigns reaching > 150,000 youth developing > 10,000 prototype
• Won the Smart Development Hackathon organized by the EU and the German BMZ
• Received seed funding from Botnar Foundation, BMZ and UNICEF
• Yoma was presented at the D4D event, a high level initiative started by the EU & AU to bridge the digital divide

End of 2021

• 1.5M Youth Engagements in yoma-related activities
• 250K Youth Registered in yoma-related Offerings
• 100K Youth Engagements in personalized Learning Opportunities on atingi

Timeline

Ecosystem Partners

Yoma Values – The Foundations

Fairness & Inclusion

Trust

Community

Personal Self Development

Privacy

Youth Agency & Empowerment First

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ToIP Metamodel – The Blueprint

Fairness & Inclusion

Trust

Community

Personal Self Development

Privacy

Youth Agency & Empowerment First

https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/ToIP+Governance+Metamodel+Specification

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Yoma Task Force Challenge

• Huge Task: Deliver a V1 GF for layers 2-4 by end September 2021
• Governance as functionality
• Governance for risk mitigation
• Machine Readable Governance requirement
• Dynamic business requirements
• Principle 0: Youth Agency & Empowerment
• Global / Local Scale/Extension Challenge
• Migrate to an interim, then operational legal handovers

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Miro Board Link: https://miro.com/welcomeonboard/WtHOxOsqSyu1qQ6bHIX8qZLONZCiVsRJElZ2FeZBqO1KOpZQGJKIDYvMfw77TMc0

• All based on ToIP Metamodel
• Some additions at Ecosystem & HX levels
• Will Change & Go Wrong!
• An experiment!

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Ecosystem Governance Compass – The Scaffolding

Fairness & Inclusion

Trust

Community

Personal Self Development

Privacy

Youth Agency & Empowerment First

https://gitlab.com/jyu-startup-lab/ecosystem-governance-compass-jyu

Meta Model

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Agenda

1. Intro to Yoma and Lean Governance Approach (Nicky)
2. Overview of the EGC  (Gabi)
3. The Yoma Model (Maha)
4. Governance as Risk Mitigation (Fred)
4. Next steps – Yoma (Nicky)
5. Q&A / discussion

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Ecosystem Governance Compass

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Blockchain and digital identity research team, Startuplab, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

• Head of Startuplab: Prof. Pekka Abrahamsson
• Compass team: Taija Kolehmainen, Maha Sroor, Gabriella Laatikainen
• Juha-Pekka Tolvanen is our DSM mentor

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Need for an ecosystem modeling tool

• Governance is a challenge especially in distributed ecosystems
• The need for an ecosystem modeling tool came from practitioners and inspired by theory
• The first idea was to create a web application similar to the Business Model Canvas, to model blockchain ecosystems at a bird eye view
• The tool could help ecosystem orchestrators to design and operate their ecosystems built around decentralized ledger technologies

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Domain-specific modeling (DSM)

• Captures domain knowledge (as opposed to code)
• Uses domain abstractions
• Applies domain concepts and rules as modeling constructs
• Narrow down the design space
• Leverages domain expertise to build automation (code generators)

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Slide adopted from Juha-Pekka Tolvanen

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Ecosystem Governance Compass (EGC)

• After the first development phase, the tool was evaluated by 37 SSI ecosystems designed by the students of an M.Sc. course at the University of Jyväskylä
• Currently it is in the second iteration phase, with the help of YOMA
• In its current form, the language is a planning and collaboration tool -> we would like to develop it further and transform it into a real governance tool
• Code generators allows us to generate code from the model
• That is, people without technical knowledge could use this tool to design and automatize governance rules in the ecosystem
• For this, we need the community’s help

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Yoma Model - How we used EGC

• Understanding scope, functional entities and the roles/actors and incentives
• Identifying gaps and questions for the Task Force & other teams in the Yoma program
• Understanding the importance of mental models & terminology as a foundation for governance and the differences between e.g. eSSIF, Sovrin, ToIP
• Starting to understand how risk could be modelled in EGC
• Knowledge capture & storage and documentation as an asset for the Yoma program & open source community
• In the Lean Governance model, the EGC remains the key enterprise architecture tool for enabling iterative development of the GF as a functional component of the service, it becomes our architectural framework for governance design, development and operations in the future.

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YOMA Governance: Some actors and roles

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YOMA Governance:

Example for Actors’ Responsibilities

Credential Holder

Yoma Member

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Insights gained from modeling the YOMA ecosystem contributes to both theory and practice

• Wonderful experience in evaluating the tool and developing it further based on a real use case -> the experience and knowledge gathered in modeling the YOMA ecosystem is invaluable for further research
• We aim to publish the results in scientific channels together with YOMA contributors
• Risk is a key element in governance and serves both as a driver and barrier of adoption
• We were rethinking the associations between the elements in EGC
• The diversity of mental models is a challenge in developing domain-specific languages
• Many other elements could be added, but the language should stay simple enough

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Agenda

1. Intro to Yoma and Lean Governance Approach (Nicky)
2. Overview of the EGC  (Gabi)
3. The Yoma Model (Maha)
4. Governance as Risk Mitigation (Fred)
4. Next steps – Yoma (Nicky)
5. Q&A / discussion

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Risk Assessment – The Surveyor

Fairness & Inclusion

Trust

Community

Personal Self Development

Privacy

Youth Agency & Empowerment First

https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/GSWG+Trust+Assurance+Task+Force

Meta Model

Trust Assurance

Ecosystem Governance Compass

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Governance as Risk Mitigation

• Prioritising Risk Assessment up front in the process as a means for identifying areas of focus for the governance framework
• Defining scope pertaining to digital governance that is both ‘inside SSI’ and outside
• Hypothesis that in the Lean approach to governance, EITHER risk is its own concept layer (alongside business, tech, governance & legal) OR risk is an element in each layer?
• Testing the ToIP Trust Assurance Process

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Agenda

1. Intro to Yoma and Lean Governance Approach (Nicky)
2. Overview of the EGC  (Gabi)
3. The Yoma Model (Maha)
4. Governance as Risk Mitigation (Fred)
4. Next steps – Yoma (Nicky)
5. Q&A / discussion

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Human Experience – First Fit

Fairness & Inclusion

Trust

Community

Personal Self Development

Privacy

Youth Agency & Empowerment First

https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Human+Experience+Working+Group

Meta Model

Trust Assurance

Ecosystem Governance Compass

HX Recommendations

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Complete the Interim Governance Framework

Fairness & Inclusion

Trust

Community

Personal Self Development

Privacy

Youth Agency & Empowerment First

https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/YOMA+Ecosystem+Task+Force

Rules!

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Next Steps

• Handover to Yoma / UNICEF
• R&D activities
• Retrospective
• You can join our Yoma TF
• WIKI https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/YOMA+Ecosystem+Task+Force
• SLACK https://trustoverip.slack.com/archives/C01MZ1VJ03V
• Meetings are every 2 weeks on a Tuesday at 9am EDT on the following zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97104385554?pwd=OWJWMWVoZ0Nyai9BL3diMFMwSXlrdz09

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Contacts: Nicky Hickman nicky@gigco.uk; Gabriella Laatikainen gabriella.g.laatikainen@jyu.fi; Maha Sroor masroor@student.jyu.fi; Fredinand Fredrick fredinandf@yahoo.com

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Yoma Rules!

Q&A

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