Through a Partnership Agreement between ITU, the Geneva World Trade Centre and World Internet Secure Key (WISeKey), a Swiss online security specialist, the EC-DC project has to date attracted in-kind contributions of more than USD 7 million from key strategic partners, who contribute facilitating technologies and services to EC-DC participating countries. The EC-DC World Internet Secure Infrastructure was launched in November 2000, during a 3-day workshop which attracted more than 500 participants from 128 countries.