WISeKey and OISTE.ORG foundation Announces its Entry into the Humanitarian World of NFTs Through the TrustedNFT.IO Platform
October 04 2021 - 12:00PM
WISeKey and
OISTE.ORG foundation Announces its Entry into
the Humanitarian World of NFTs Through
the TrustedNFT.IO Platform
Geneva, Zug – October 4, 2021 -
WISeKey International Holding Ltd (“WISeKey”, Nasdaq:
WKEY / SIX: WIHN), a leading cybersecurity, IoT and
AI company, today announced that is teaming
with the OISTE.ORG foundation, whose acronym is given by its
original name in
French, Organisation Internationale pour
la Sécuritédes Transactions Electroniques, to enter
the humanitarian world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
through the WISeKey TrustedNFT.IO platform. OISTE holds
special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of
the UN (ECOSOC) and is an accredited member of the Non-Commercial
Users Stakeholders Group (NCSG) of ICANN as part of the
Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns (NPOC) constituency.
The OISTE.ORG TrustedNFT.IO platform
will be used to encourage humanitarian specific causes.
The OISTE Foundation supports many global organizations
that focus on human rights and sustainable
development projects.
Specifically, the OISTE Foundation:
- Was amongst the
first civil society organizations that subscribed and endorsed
the International Principles on the Application of Human
Rights to Communications Surveillance back in 2013.
-
Follows closely the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on
the Human Right to Privacy and organizes a panel as a
side-event of the Human Rights Council, the objective of
which is to create awareness and educate human rights
activists on the relevance of this emerging topic.
- Endorses the “Principles on
identification for sustainable development: Toward the Digital
Age“ and aligns its practices with these principles.
- Supports the initiative of the
Geneva Office of the United Nations, Perception Change
project, a collective effort to show the relevance and impact of
the work of Geneva-based International Organizations.
- Adheres to the Universal Guidelines
for Artificial Intelligence proposed by The Public
Voice: https://thepublicvoice.org/ai-universal-guidelines.
- Supports the work of the UN
High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation and the analysis and
recommendations contained in the report: “The Age of Digital
Interdependence.”
The OISTE FOUNDATIONFounded in
Switzerland in 1998, OISTE was created with the objectives of
promoting the use and adoption of international standards to secure
electronic transactions, expand the use of digital certification
and ensure the interoperability of certification authorities’
e-transaction systems. The OISTE Foundation is a not for profit
organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, regulated by article 80
et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code. OISTE is an organization in
special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of
the United Nations (ECOSOC) and belongs to the Not-for-Profit
constituency (NPOC) of the ICANN. http://www.oiste.org/
About WISeKey
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN)
is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large
scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using
Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the
Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing
shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install
base of over 1.6 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors
(connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors,
anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile
phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned
to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge
amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence
(AI), can help industrial applications to predict the failure of
their equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s
Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure
authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual
environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial
Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to
ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and
between objects and people. For more information,
visit www.wisekey.com.
Press and investor contacts:
WISeKey
International Holding LtdCompany Contact: Carlos
MoreiraChairman & CEOTel: +41 22 594
3000info@wisekey.com |
WISeKey
Investor Relations (US)Contact: Lena CatiThe Equity
Group Inc.Tel: +1 212 836-9611lcati@equityny.com |
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