Human-Centric Digital Product Passports : Enabling Verifiable Information Sharing for Sustainable Consumption through Wallet-Based Identity Management and Zero-Knowledge Proofs

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Babel, Matthias ; Guthmann, Claus ; Körner, Marc-Fabian ; Kranz, Tobias ; Strüker, Jens:
Human-Centric Digital Product Passports : Enabling Verifiable Information Sharing for Sustainable Consumption through Wallet-Based Identity Management and Zero-Knowledge Proofs.
In: Bui, Tung X. (ed.): Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). - Waikoloa, Hawaii : University of Hawaii Press , 2025 . - pp. 4387-4396
ISBN 978-0-9981331-8-8

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Empowering end consumers with transparent productrelated information is seen as a promising way to drive sustainable consumption choices and counter the global sustainability challenges. To foster this endeavor, Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are a potential solution to share product-specific data across supply chains, aiding informed consumer decisions and supporting sustainability. However, DPPs often involve the collection of sensitive information about supply chain actors and their processes. Hence, this paper aims to develop a DPP prototype that provides endconsumers with increased and verified information. We utilize wallet-based identities, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and zero-knowledge-proofs (ZKPs) to design a DPP for the textile industry that facilitates the transfer of verifiable information, lowering information asymmetries between humans and organizations and equips value-chain stakeholders with a means to verifiably share data. Our study seeks to bridge the de sign gap for a human-centric DPP infrastructure in IS literature by developing a sample infrastructure.

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Item Type:	Article in a book
Refereed:	Yes
Keywords:	Digital Product Passport; Non-fungible Token; Zero-knowledge-proof; Sustainable Economy; Wallet-based Identity Management
Institutions of the University:	Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Professor Information Systems and Digital Energy Management Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Professor Information Systems and Digital Energy Management > Professor Information Systems and Digital Energy Management - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jens Strüker Profile Fields > Emerging Fields > Energy Research and Energy Technology Research Institutions Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes > Branch Business and Information Systems Engineering of Fraunhofer FIT Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes > FIM Research Center for Information Management
Result of work at the UBT:	Yes
DDC Subjects:	000 Computer Science, information, general works > 004 Computer science 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Date Deposited:	18 Feb 2025 09:04
Last Modified:	10 Mar 2025 06:28
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/92416