M-banking

M-banking

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10/8/2008 SWISS STYLE - by Jim Phoenix

Modern business can be defined by its speed. Today, major transactions can occur instantaneously over the Internet. This is possible because of services like those provided by WISeKey, an Internet securities company.

Recently, however, WISeKey has taken e-commerce and its idea of immediate abstract transactions a step further, exploring the realm of a Mobile Payment Telco Platform.

Carlos Moreira,WISeKey CEO (at left), with former President Bill Clinton
at the Global Clinton Initiative in New York, September 2008

Mobile banking – the breakthrough
In September, WISeKey announced at the Global Clinton Initiative in New York that it would be participating in a radical new project to help bring banking to previously unbanked people throughout the world. To accomplish this, they had to identify a route to reach these people.

Carlos Moreira, the CEO of WISeKey, asserted, “In the world you have some six billion people and three billion of whom have a mobile phone. Of those three billion with a mobile phone, only one billion have bank accounts.”

By devising a system where banking can take place through phones, this new platform can rest on the basis of an existing infrastructure and reach previously unattainable heights by incorporating the remaining two billion people presently in the world without a bank account. The world’s appetite for mobile phones has exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. Mobile phones could go on to be the most common consumer electronics devices on the planet. And this technology could bring the ability of banking to people who would otherwise have no participation in the global financial system. It could reach regions where physically getting to a bank simply is not practical. “A bank account is a physical notion, where as here the bank account is on your chip. That’s the breakthrough,” says Moreira.

To credit money to another phone’s “wallet”, a person would simply enter their WISeKey ID, the desired transfer amount and the number of where it is going. This amount would then be put on the telephone bill of the sender. In essence, the telcos would be working as small level personal banks for these customers allowing them to increase their ARPU (average per users revenue). The mobile phone would act in place of a credit card, making it possible to buy things with m-payment credit.

The m-banking system is not only for those without bank accounts. Remote transfers can be made phone- to-phone and then moved into a bank account on the other end. Location becomes arbitrary to the equation.

If, however, you are in a more remote area and have no access to a bank, credit on your phone won’t do you much good. So the “wallet” from your mobile phone can be put onto a smart card and retrieved at an ATM, making this a practical solution in developing areas.

WISeKey’s role: Providing the security
Obviously, this is not a project that could plausibly happen through the efforts of one company. The m- banking project consists of several organizations involved with the Clinton Global Initiative. With the cooperation and collaboration of many institutions, they hope to overhaul the banking system and make it more universally accessible.

Other organizations taking part in the project include CGAP, Equity Bank, the GSMA Foundation (with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Mpower ventures, Tostan, Western Union, Wizzit Bank and Women’s World Banking. Together, these organizations should be able to form a complete enough network to fund, build and provide these services. “The bottom line is solving the problem,” says Moreira.

The technological requirements for m-banking have existed for quite some time. However, WISeKey’s commitment to security is what it took to turn this technology into a realistic possibility. By providing trustworthy security on the transactions, WISeKey has built the platform on which this project can manifest.

“I am Mediterranean”
The first major undertaking of WISeKey and the Telco Platform project is the “I Am Mediterranean” program. Moreira expressed their goal “to create an ecosystem of Mediterranean countries” by providing citizens of the Antonio Banderas – the “I Am Mediterranean” program’s flagship member region with WISeKey IDs and the possibility of m-payments. They aim to unite the entire region in an Internet community.

It is kicking off with some 300 people linked up, of whom 60 or so are mayors from towns and cities around the Mediterranean. Their desire being that their communities can be compatible with this infrastructure and move into the future of remote commerce. The target is to help around 100 million people from 25 countries in the area. Film star Antonio Banderas is the flagship member, leading the region into this new community.

This should help the region streamline trade and integrate more of their populations into the financial system. “For me it’s a way of doing good at the same time I am building an ecosystem,” says Moreira. In this way, business growth and altruism are one and the same.

This is not the corporate social responsibility of the past but rather a market-demanded social responsibility born out of the linking of people and the inherently egalitarianism of electronic identities – while creating at the same time a new business model on which there is no exclusion. «««

WISeKey annonce le développement d'une plate-forme de télécommunication pour paiement mobile, son nouvel engagement pour le congrès annuel 2008 de la

WISeKey annonce le développement d'une plate-forme de télécommunication pour paiement mobile, son nouvel engagement pour le congrès annuel 2008 de la Clinton Global Initiative

New York, USA/Genève, Suisse (ots) - WISeKey a annoncé aujourd'hui un nouveau engagement ciblant dans un premier temps plus de 100 millions de personnes du bassin méditerranéen pas encore desservies, mais déjà connectées vocalement avec leurs téléphones portables. WISeKey fournira les technologies de paiement mobile fiables, sécurisées et interopérables requises pour mettre en oeuvre une plate-forme de télécommunication pour paiement mobile dans certaines zones géographiques en partenariat avec des institutions financières, et des sociétés de télécommunications et de technologie de la région.
"Nous espérons que l'impact de cet engagement pourra atteindre 100 millions de personnes défavorisées dans 25 pays situés principalement autour du bassin méditerranéen, notamment en Afrique, au cours de la première phase. Le déploiement de la plate-forme en coopération avec les sociétés de télécommunications nous permettra d'atteindre la base non desservie de la pyramide des consommateurs. Dans le cadre de cet engagement, nous collaborons principalement avec des sociétés de télécommunications qui utilisent nos technologies pour s'adapter aux technologies qui permettent d'utiliser le téléphone portable comme un outil financier", a déclaré Carlos Moreira, PDG de WISeKey.
Le paiement mobile apparaît maintenant comme un lien important qui pourrait apporter des services financiers élémentaires à des milliards d'utilisateurs mondiaux de téléphone portable non desservis. Cet engagement consiste principalement à inclure les personnes non desservies dans l'économie officielle et à leur permettre d'utiliser leur téléphone portable comme dispositif d'identification et de paiement. Il est intéressant de noter que sur les 5 milliards de propriétaires de téléphone portable, 1 milliard n'ont pas accès aux services financiers en dépit de la possibilité technologique d'activer ces services.
Afin de concrétiser cet engagement, WISeKey a été l'un des principaux promoteurs du Sommet des villes et gouvernements méditerranéens qui doit se tenir le 3 octobre à Malaga, en Espagne, et auquel le Premier ministre espagnol, M. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a invité les leaders européens et du bassin méditerranéen. Pour de plus amples renseignements sur cet engagement, veuillez consulter: http://www.wisekey.com
Dans le cadre des premières étapes de cette initiative, l'acteur Antonio Banderas sera le premier citoyen méditerranéen à participer à l'un des projets les plus ambitieux du Sommet de l'espace numérique méditerranéen: créer une communauté de 150 millions de citoyens en ligne. Le projet "Je suis méditerranéen" fournira l'accès à une grande variété de services publics à tous les citoyens de la région à partir de son centre de Malaga en vue de promouvoir une culture et une identité millénaires communes. Les villes de l'ensemble du bassin méditerranéen peuvent s'associer à cette initiative et établir localement des plates-formes de services publics qui sont interopérables à travers la région.
WISeKey se réjouit à la perspective de répéter cette initiative
dans d'autres régions du monde culturellement intégrées.

OISTE and Malaga Valley Group today signed an agreement to use WISeKey’s Common Global Root and scalable PKI hierarchy to establish a Euro-African Hub

OISTE and Malaga Valley Group today signed an agreement to use WISeKey’s Common Global Root and scalable PKI hierarchy to establish a Euro-African Hub





OISTE will help the government of Malaga become the new Euro-African Hub, with the aim of optimizing economic-social-cultural relations between Europe and Africa. This will be accomplished using the infrastructure of the Technology Park of Malaga and Malaga Valley and its unique geopolitical location. The project will be financed by the private sector, the European Union (EU) and the Spanish government.

Spain is eager to increase support to its continental neighbour, and the establishment of a Euro-African Hub is a logical and essential step. The Hub will become both a super-platform for optimizing commercial, technological and cultural links between the European Union and Africa, and also meeting-point and a place for research and study. Its location in Malaga is the work of the International Organization for the Security of Electronic Transactions (OISTE), the provincial government and the local business sector. The Hub is a natural step following the significant investments already deployed to convert Malaga into a leader of Euro-African initiatives. The provincial government of Malaga, with the help of Madrid and Brussels, has the firm objective to instantiate this new Hub as one of the major superhighways of Information Technology and Worldwide Communications (ICT).

To make the most of the potential of this project, the signatories intend to transform Malaga with this important technological Hub, which includes Internet technologies, and the new generation of mobile technologies, to provide sustainable electronic solutions, where security barriers and trust related to the use of public networks can be discussed. The identification of requirements for security services and the cost effective and the profitable aspect of this platform will ensure the provision of highly innovative services.

The Euro-African Hub will operate in a first phase from Geneva, in the highly protected buildings of WISeKey. The subsequent transfer to Malaga will take place once the on-site infrastructure is fully operational. This innovative system will combine multiple physical and electronic security systems utilizing PKI solutions within a “zero risk” secure environment, thanks to the extensive use of VPN (private data network) systems.

The global growth of the Internet is leading the world of business in unimaginable directions. Maintaining data privacy and confidentiality is a huge cost for companies, and the greater the geographic scope, the more complex and expensive are its communications.

"This initiative is an evolution of the agreement signed during the TELECOM'99 ITU in Geneva in November 1999, based on a partnership between WISeKey and the ITU to establish certification authorities in developing countries. Thanks to OISTE and WISeKey, 198 member countries of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) understand the need for a global PKI structure under a shared common ROOT as it has been developed for OISTE and operated by WISeKey," said Philippe Doubre, president of OISTE, (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/e-strategy/ecdc/ra/introduction.html)"

"WISeKey is currently mobilizing the public and private sectors in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to support the deployment of NETeID, a comprehensive system of electronic payment through Internet-based digital identification. It is hoped that the Hub of Malaga Valley can also join this ambitious project," said Carlos Moreira.

"The creation of a Euro-African Hub will give a clear and effective answer to all cooperation activities between African and European countries. Technology will allow us to build that sort of bridges that will contribute to the development of Africa by bringing knowledge to people, and thus by an initiative leaded also by Civil Society, where the Asociacion de Usuarios de Internet (AUI) is proud of being a protagonist in this project," affirmed Miguel Perez Subias, President of AUI and promoter of the HUB during the Malaga Valley meeting.

A tipping point in water re-use?

A tipping point in water re-use?

There were two interesting recent headlines which support the view that we are approaching a tipping point in relation to water scarcity and water resources.


Firstly, Orange County, California was awarded the Stockholm Industry Award for its pioneering work to inject treated wastewater into deep wells to re-charge ground water aquifers. This water can then be extracted at a later date for water supply. What you are seeing here is the start of a convergence in advanced wastewater treatment and water supply. They say that water has no memory, but the public certainly does, and they don’t like the thought that what comes out of their tap, might in the not too distant past have disappeared down their toilet. Aquifer injection provides that one degree of separation.

However water is the ultimate re-cyclable commodity and re-cycle it we must if we are to avoid some of the alarming predictions reported at the Goldman Sachs ‘Top Five Risks Conference’ Goldman Sachs reported that a catastrophic water shortage could prove an even bigger threat to mankind this century than soaring food prices and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves. The report said water was the "petroleum for the next century", offering huge rewards for investors who know how to play the infrastructure boom.

So how exactly do you go about playing this boom? Goldman Sachs suggest eyeing companies that produce or service filtration equipment, ultraviolet disinfection, desalination technology using membranes, automated water meters and specialist niches in water reuse.

Water re-cycling is going to be huge, particularly in the sunshine belt between California and Florida. Groundwater, in the context of our lifespans at least, is a non-renewable resource. If you drain it down, it can take hundreds of years to re-charge. Nicholas (Lord) Stern, author of the UK Government's Stern Review on the economics of climate change, warned that underground aquifers could run dry at the same time as melting glaciers play havoc with fresh supplies of usable water.

There are a myriad of companies out there that can take salt out of water, but if someone can comes up with a) the midas touch to turn the briny waste produced into a product, or b) a lower energy method of doing it they will be on to a winner.

Paul O’ Callaghan is the founding CEO of the Clean Tech development consultancy O2 Environmental. Paul lectures on Environmental Protection technology at Kwantlen University College, is a Director with Ionic Water Technologies and an industry expert reviewer for Sustainable Development Technology Canada.
Labels: climate change, Goldman Sachs, Lord Stern, Stockholm institute, water, water conservation, water reuse

Nearly one-third of the world's population is expected to be living in regions facing severe water scarcity by 2025.

Solving conflicts over water scarcity in Kenya Wetlands

Rachel Bonham Carter reports a celebration of World Water Day by children in Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory. Credits: Producer:Rachel Bonham Car

In 2008 'Water' features heavily at Davos.

In 2008 'Water' features heavily at Davos. A major initiative sees 6 leading CEOs set out a call to action, in recognition of the link water has to climate change, bio-fuels, food and agriculture, cities, people and business and the immense strain all our water sources are now under as our world economy continues to grow. Can Davos 08 help catalyze a new global collaboration on water?

Water scarcity: A looming crisis?

Water scarcity: A looming crisis?
As part of Planet Under Pressure, a BBC News Online series looking at some of the biggest environmental problems facing humanity, Alex Kirby explores fears of an impending global water crisis.


By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent



The world's water is finite, but the number of us is growing fast
The world's water crisis is simple to understand, if not to solve.
The amount of water in the world is finite. The number of us is growing fast and our water use is growing even faster.

A third of the world's population lives in water-stressed countries now. By 2025, this is expected to rise to two-thirds.

There is more than enough water available, in total, for everyone's basic needs.

The UN recommends that people need a minimum of 50 litres of water a day for drinking, washing, cooking and sanitation.

In 1990, over a billion people did not have even that.

Providing universal access to that basic minimum worldwide by 2015 would take less than 1% of the amount of water we use today. But we're a long way from achieving that.

Pollution and disease

Global water consumption rose sixfold between 1900 and 1995 - more than double the rate of population growth - and goes on growing as farming, industry and domestic demand all increase.


Facts and figures on the world's water use and supply


In graphics

As important as quantity is quality - with pollution increasing in some areas, the amount of useable water declines.

More than five million people die from waterborne diseases each year - 10 times the number killed in wars around the globe.

And the wider effects of water shortages are just as chilling as the prospect of having too little to drink.

Seventy percent of the water used worldwide is used for agriculture.

Much more will be needed if we are to feed the world's growing population - predicted to rise from about six billion today to 8.9 billion by 2050.

And consumption will soar further as more people expect Western-style lifestyles and diets - one kilogram of grain-fed beef needs at least 15 cubic metres of water, while a kilo of cereals needs only up to three cubic metres.

Poverty and water

The poor are the ones who suffer most. Water shortages can mean long walks to fetch water, high prices to buy it, food insecurity and disease from drinking dirty water.


Millions of poor people spend hours every day carrying water
But the very thing needed to raise funds to tackle water problems in poor countries - economic development - requires yet more water to supply the agriculture and industries which drive it.

The UN-backed World Commission on Water estimated in 2000 that an additional $100bn a year would be needed to tackle water scarcity worldwide.

This dwarfs the $20bn which will be needed annually by 2007 to tackle HIV and Aids, and, according to the Commission, it is so much it could only be raised from the private sector.

Even if the money can be found, spending it wisely is a further challenge. Dams and other large-scale projects now affect 60% of the world's largest rivers and provide millions with water.


But in many cases the costs in terms of population displacement and irreversible changes in the nearby ecosystems have been considerable.

Using underground supplies is another widely used solution, but it means living on capital accumulated over millennia, and depleting it faster than the interest can top it up.

As groundwater is exploited, water tables in parts of China, India, West Asia, the former Soviet Union and the western United States are dropping - in India by as much as 3m a year in 1999.

Technical solutions

New technology can help, however, especially by cleaning up pollution and so making more water useable, and in agriculture, where water use can be made far more efficient. Drought-resistant plants can also help.

Drip irrigation drastically cuts the amount of water needed, low-pressure sprinklers are an improvement, and even building simple earth walls to trap rainfall is helpful.


One kilo of grain-fed beef needs at least 15 cubic metres of water
Some countries are now treating waste water so that it can be used - and drunk - several times over.

Desalinisation makes sea water available, but takes huge quantities of energy and leaves vast amounts of brine.

The optimists say "virtual water" may save the day - the water contained in crops which can be exported from water-rich countries to arid ones.

But the amounts involved would be immense, and the energy needed to transport them gargantuan. And affordable, useable energy will probably soon be a bigger problem than water itself.

Climate change

In any case, it is not just us who need water, but every other species that shares the planet with us - as well all the ecosystems on which we, and they, rely.

Climate change will also have an impact. Some areas will probably benefit from increased rainfall, but others are likely to be losers.

We have to rethink how much water we really need if we are to learn how to share the Earth's supply.

While dams and other large-scale schemes play a big role worldwide, there is also a growing recognition of the value of using the water we already have more efficiently rather than harvesting ever more from our rivers and aquifers.

For millions of people around the world, getting it right is a matter of life and death.

HighTrusted available for NGO's

Hightrusted.com: WISeKey, so far known in the industry for securing e-transactions, evoting, national IDs, Web sites and Digital Identities is providing its HighTrusted Plataform at no cost to NGO's to allow them to deliver high-quality, secure services via Social Networking. As a first step WISeKey is partnering with the Global Clinton Initiative to build the HighTrusted Social Network by providing the necessary identity management and transaction platform to enable a new approach of cash flow management to reduce operations costs, intermediaries and other sources which result in the loss of aid, remittances and micro-credit initiatives, as well as to increase the awareness and control capability of those providing the funds.

WISeKey, in cooperation with the OISTE, is working to help reduce the gap between the new Digital Identification Divide in less developed countries and emerging economies by creating the infrastructure that will make a de-facto global digital identity community of 1 billion digital identity users while providing equitable and meaningful access to digital information technology

Carlos Moreira Invited by Mario Garnero to join the II Sustainable Development Forum in New York in May 2008

Photo: Carlos Moreira with Mario Garnero.

Mario Garnero, the Chairman of Brasilinvest Group, President of Fórum das Américas and President of the United Nations Association-Brazil invites Carlos Moreira to join the II Sustainable Development Forum with the confirmed presence of the Former American Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Al Gore, Former American President Bill Clinton Former Prime Minister Tony Blair in New York, May 2nd - at the Cipriani Wall Street.
Carlos Moreira is working with its OISTE Foundation on issues related to Social Sustainable Development in cooperation with the World Economic Forum and the Global Clinton Initiative . The objective is to create awarness on issues related to sustainable development through technical cooperation on new technologies and innovation and know how transfer at international, regional and national levels.

nternet Safety Technical Task Force

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School has just announced the formation of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, and they were kind enough to ask me to serve as a member. According to the press release they sent out this morning:

The Task Force will evaluate a broad range of existing and state-of-the-art online safety technologies, including a review of identity authentication tools to help sites enforce minimum age requirements. The Task Force is a central element of the Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Safety announced in January 2008 by MySpace and the Attorneys General Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking. Fifty Attorneys General adopted the “Joint Statement” with the goal of improving online safety standards industry-wide.

[I discussed the details of that My Space-AG “joint statement in this report back in January.] The Task Force is composed of industry-leading Internet businesses, non-profit organizations, and technology companies, including: AOL, Aristotle, AT&T, Bebo, Center for Democracy & Technology, Connectsafely.org, Comcast, Enough is Enough, Facebook, Google, the Family Online Safety Institute, iKeepSafe, the Institute for Policy Innovation, Linden Lab, Loopt, IDology, Microsoft, MySpace, NCMEC, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Sentinel Tech, Symantec, Verizon, WiredSafety.org, Xanga, and Yahoo! The Task Force will be chaired by John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center.

Over the past year, I have been very active on many of the issues that will be at the core of the task force’s mission, including the identify authentication / age verification debate. For those who might be interested, I've included the relevant PFF studies and links down below the fold. I'm looking forward to working with the other members of the Task Force to conduct a comprehensive review of these issues. I'm sure I will be reporting here occasionally on our progress.

WISeKey adheres to the Geneva Principle of the Digital Solidarity Fund

WISeKey adheres to the Geneva Principle of the Digital Solidarity Fund, which entails a contribution of 1% on public procurement contracts (Information & Computer Technology). Therefore, for every eID sold in the framework of this agreement the related 1 % will be reverted to the Digital Solidarity Fund (www.dsf-fsn.org).

Carlos Moreira CEO of WISeKey quoted: “We are truly in support of the Digital Solidarity Fund because we want to fulfil our responsibility as a global player. In the years to come the "Digital Divide" will expand to the "Identity Divide" and emerging economies expect from us that we contribute to close the gap for the benefit of everyone. And this includes the fight against the Identity Divide in emerging economies and disadvantages areas of the world"

Alain Clerc, Executive Secretary of DSF underlines the importance of building new relations between the public sector and the private sector in order to respond to the Millennium Development Goals. “It is indeed through such partnerships [WISeKey] that we are tackling the huge challenge of the Digital Divide”.

The scope of the agreement is to genuinely contribute to bridge the “Identity Divide” gap, by putting digital Identification technology together with financial mechanisms at the reach of least developing countries.

WISeKey’s Digital Identification expertise, jointly with the Digital Solidarity Fund financial capacities opens new opportunities to emerging economies to rapidly benefit from modern e-government solutions such as National Identity Systems.

The signed agreement with the Digital Solidarity Fund is the direct response of WISeKey towards its Corporate Citizenship duties. On that regard, WISeKey continues to strongly support several other organisations involved in the wide application of the CSR (Corporate Social responsibility) concept. Below, other CSR supported initiatives by WISeKey:

- OISTE (www.oiste.org)
- ITU/EC-DC (www.itu.int/ecdc)
- UN Global Compact (www.unglobalcompact.org)
- ICT 4 Peace (www.ict4peace.org)
- Action Innocence (www.actioninnocence.org)
- Global Clinton Initiative
- Neteid.com project

Carlos Moreira y Emma Thonson dicusten la lucha contra la pobreza

Durante el WEF 2008 Carlos y Emma Thonson discuten que la lucha contra la pobreza sea de una manera urgente, definitiva y eficaz, utilizando tecnologias. Emma Thompson se encuentra en el Foro Económico Mundial de Davos para pedir apoyo económico en la lucha contra el tráfico de mujeres de los países más pobres para explotarlas sexualmente.

"No quiero este tipo de esclavitud en mi ciudad, en Londres ", dijo Thompson en una entrevista con el diario suizo Le Matin.

Carlso explico que la transversalidad de la acción de erradicación de la pobreza puede recibir una gran ayuda con la introducción del tipo de tecnología disponible para las Redes Sociales Transaccionales. La identificación digital del pobre será un elemento fundamental al garantizar una participación segura. En su discusion con Emma Carlos le explica que la pobreza extrema puede ser erradicada. La pobreza “intensifica el dolor y la enajenación” de quienes se sienten apartados de las ventajas de la interdependencia global. Bastaría, para combatirla, una contribución del 1% del de las transacciones efectuadas por el Internet y sus redes sociales. Ello significaría el fin de la pobreza en el mundo en un par de décadas.

Carlos participa activamente en este tema de erradicación de la pobreza en el WEF y la Iniciativa Global Clinton.

Carlso Moreira at the WEF to promote his work on Increasing Digital Connectivity for the Poor

Carlos Moreira via his Foundation OISTE.ORG is committed to providing the necessary identity management and transaction platform to enable a new approach of cash flow management to reduce operations costs, intermediaries and other sources which result in the loss of aid, remittances and micro-credit initiatives, as well as to increase the awareness and control capability of those providing the funds. WISeKey and the OISTE Foundation developed for this commitment the NETeID Social Network. The NETeID System was designed as a set of online tools intended to empower poor and excluded people around the world to access via their digital identities different sources of assistances and interventions. The system is designed to constitute a global social network that pulls data from all tools into one easy-to-manage web interface which will include a combination of digital identity, security, privacy, web access, blogging and remittances services. Enabling the poor to access the NETeID Social Network may bring them information and services to empower them to become confident, productive members of a healthy society.

WISeKey, in cooperation with the International Organization for Secure Transactions Foundation (OISTE.org), will be providing a Digital Identification Infrastructure designed to support a network of 20,000 Identification Authorities worldwide with the objective to issue a billion digital identities. Each of these 20,000 Identification Authorities operating from 189 countries will be authorized to issue Digital Identities locally.

Carlos Moreira avec Emma Thompson au WEF 2008

Carlos Moreira discute avec elle de son travail pour la pauvreté dans le monde. Depuis des années, Emma Thompson se bat pour la défense des droits de l'homme. Elle était militante contre la Guerre en Irak. Elle a milité également pour le parti des Travaillistes, et continue d'aider à collecter des fonds pour les sans-abri et pour la pauvreté dans le monde. Elle a écrit un scénario sur l'assassinat du Chilien Victor Jara, appris l'espagnol et voyagé au Chili.