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## What is Passport?

Many social organizations, online particularly, have difficulty ensuring that every participant is a unique human and does not have multiple participating accounts. Most existing digital identity solutions are either centralized (e.g., national identity cards) or individualistic (e.g., most “self-sovereign” identity models). However, identity is naturally [intersectional and social](https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/intersectional-social-identity/); everybody shares different data and relationships with a unique set of others. The Gitcoin Passport aims to provide a more collaborative and secure infrastructure for digital identity by capturing the richness of our diversely shared lives.
Many social organizations, online particularly, have difficulty ensuring that every participant is a unique human and does not have multiple participating accounts. Most existing digital identity solutions are either centralized (e.g., national identity cards) or individualistic (e.g., most “self-sovereign” identity models). However, identity is naturally [intersectional and social](https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/intersectional-social-identity/); everybody shares different data and relationships with a unique set of others. Passport aims to provide a more collaborative and secure infrastructure for digital identity by capturing the richness of our diversely shared lives.

Passport is an identity verification application. We have written software enabling people to grow personal collections of [verifiable credentials](https://decentralized-id.com/web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/verifiable-credentials/) about themselves and organizations to assess their identities to coordinate rights and responsibilities. The institutions define, verify, and utilize identity as functions of the networked records of the individuals. While we build Passport to be agnostic to specific applications, we are actively exploring its benefits for [personhood proofs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_personhood) and [plurality](https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/why-i-am-a-pluralist/) in organizational designs.
Passport is an identity verification application. We have written software enabling people to grow personal collections of [verifiable credentials](https://decentralized-id.com/web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/verifiable-credentials/) about themselves and organizations to assess their identities to coordinate rights and responsibilities. The institutions define, verify, and utilize identity as functions of the networked records of the individuals. While we build the Passport agnostic to specific applications, we are actively exploring its benefits for [personhood proofs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_personhood) and [plurality](https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/why-i-am-a-pluralist/) in organizational designs.

## Documentation

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You can join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/passport) (just be sure to select the builder role when you join) to get help and discuss the project with the rest of the community.

You can also familiarize yourself with our near term project roadmap in the [project backlog](https://github.com/orgs/passportxyz/projects/1)
You can also familiarize yourself with our near term project roadmap in the passport [project backlog](https://github.com/orgs/passportxyz/projects/)

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4. Run the [Passport Scorer API](https://github.com/passportxyz/passport-scorer/tree/main/api) locally. Set up instructions are [here](https://github.com/passportxyz/passport-scorer/blob/main/SETUP.md)
4. Run the [Passport Scorer API](https://github.com/passportxyz/passport-scorer/tree/main/api) locally. Set up instructions are [here](https://github.com/passportxyz/passport-scorer/blob/main/SETUP.md)

## Passport Data

A passport has three sources of data. The primary source is a postgres database that is hosted by Passport XYZ. To run the passport application locally you will need spin up the [Scorer API](https://github.com/passportxyz/passport-scorer/tree/main/api). All relevant instructions to run the scorer api can be found [here](https://github.com/passportxyz/passport-scorer/blob/main/SETUP.md). The sample environment variables in the .env-example.env files are configured to make requests to the scorer api running locally. Once the scorer api is running locally, you should have a reliable data source for development.
A passport has two sources of data. The primary source is a postgres database that is hosted by Passport XYZ. To run the passport application locally you will need spin up the [Scorer API](https://github.com/passportxyz/passport-scorer/tree/main/api). All relevant instructions to run the scorer api can be found [here](https://github.com/passportxyz/passport-scorer/blob/main/SETUP.md). The sample environment variables in the .env-example.env files are configured to make requests to the scorer api running locally. Once the scorer api is running locally, you should have a reliable data source for development.

A second source of data is the Ceramic network. No steps are needed to run the ceramic network locally. The sample environment variables in the .env-example.env files are configured to make requests to a test version of the ceramic network.

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