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