Services giant Accenture together with applied scientific discipline powerhouse Microsoft convey teamed upward to construct an unprecedented global digital ID computer program to render legal identification to 1.1 billion people without documents closed to the world.
The 2 companies unveiled a epitome of the tool today at the UN headquarters inward New York every bit a business office of the ID2020 program. The public-private partnership consortium sees a unified approach of governments, applied scientific discipline giants together with NGOs, amid others, to render a legal identity for everyone on the planet past times the twelvemonth 2020. The blockchain prototype, built past times Accenture inward partnership alongside Microsoft, runs on the latter’s pop cloud computing platform, Azure.
David Treat, managing managing director of Accenture’s global blockchain concern stated:
People without a documented identity endure past times existence excluded from modern society. Our epitome is personal, private together with portable, empowering individuals to access together with part appropriate information when convenient without the worry of using or losing newspaper documentation.
When operational, the tool volition enable individuals such every bit refugees who convey fled their abode country, to present their identity together with where they came from, via an app on their phone. The app volition permit individuals to part their identities next their straight consent.
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A screenshot of the application, released past times Accenture, tin travel works life below:
Biometric Identity Management Systemwhich sees some 1.3 ane chiliad m refugees enrolled inward 29 countries from Asia, Africa together with Central America.
Ultimately, the blockchain ID organization is expected to back upward over seven ane chiliad m refugees from 75 countries past times the twelvemonth 2020.
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