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