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Since 1999 WISekey has at least achieved five breakthroughs that will significantly improve during the years to come the world's ability to solve the challenges of:
1. Develop a Trusted Internet: Assist in cooperation with the OISTE Foundation and ITU to developed a Trusted Internet with affordable and adequate inclusion based technology allowing over 5 billion people to join the world economy; As a result of our partnership with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), WISeKey has provided for a number of years Trusted solutions based on the mass usage of certification by Internet users for authorized access to intranets and restricted web based sites. This approach changes the entire dynamics of how the Internet is used and will propel its transactional based usage into the 21st century. As the International Agency responsible for developing many of the key standards used today in communications, the ITU is ensuring that the highest open standards are implemented to enable all countries in the world to benefit from the introduction of true e-commerce, accessible to all regardless of origin.
2. Provide a Digital Identification to all citizens in the world: WISeKey has been working with the Clinton Global Initiative since 2007 to provide the necessary identity management and transaction platform to enable a new approach to 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. WISeID 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 WISeID 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), is 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.
3. Reduce global counterfeiting: Together with the Digital Identification, the anti-counterfeiting industry continues to aggressively pursue the use of our WISeAuthentic technology. Counterfeiting represents approximately five to seven percent of all world trade and with the luxury brand industries estimated to reach one trillion dollars (US) by 2010, these companies need a solution that will prove authenticity. The technology developed by WISekey is virtually fail-safe, as the encrypted digital information within the SmartCard's chip is impossible to replicate and will remain so for the foreseeable future, according to analysts, mathematicians and academic experts who participated in the development of WISeKey's technology. WISeAuthentic is also available for use with jewelry, beauty products, haute couture, jet aircraft and automotive parts, luxury goods, pharmaceuticals, software and entertainment.
4. Develop a new payment system for unbanked communities: WISeKey is offering a platform to enable anyone with a mobile phone to carry out transactions, even if they don't have a bank account. It is estimated that only 1 billion people out of the world's nearly five billion mobile device users have bank accounts, but people need a way of sending money to peers. In addition to the 'unbanked', there are the 'underbanked'-those who have inaccessible bank accounts, as branches and ATMs are rare in many emerging economies. WISePay, based on WISeKey technology, allows financial institutions, mobile operators, e-commerce and catalog retailers to provide customers with universally trusted services through the most common and secure channels.
5. Assist Migrants around the World to benefit from Global Mobility: WISeKey and The Association for International Mobility (AIM), are working together developing an ambitious digital ID program for the world's often undocumented migrant workers. There are over 200 million migrants in the world, 49 percent of whom are women, according to the International Organization for Migration. These migrants created $337 billion in remittances flows in 2007, sending $251 billion to developing countries.
In creating these goal, WISeKey was heavily influenced by the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Clinton Global Initiative and the World Economic Forum.