WISeKey Invited to Join the Clinton
Global Initiative
(“CGI”)
2022 Meeting in New York
as Part
of the New
Commitments to Action™
In 2006, WISeKey pledged
at the CGI to provide digital identity management and the necessary
transaction platform to increase the digital connectivity for the
poor
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/commitment/clinton-global-initiative/increasing-digital-connectivity-to-the-poor/
ZUG, Switzerland – September 15, 2022 – WISeKey International
Holding Ltd (NASDAQ: WKEY / SIX: WIHN) (“WISeKey” or the
“Company”), a leading Swiss cybersecurity and IoT company announced
today that it was invited again this year to join the 2022 CGI
Annual Meeting which will be held in New York City from September
19-20, 2022.
In 2006, WISeKey pledged at the CGI to provide digital identity
management and the necessary transaction platform to increase the
digital connectivity for the poor and this year it will be
reporting on the progress made on this project over the years and
update on the technology advances facilitating execution.
Unlimited Internet surfing and email are privileges few can
afford today, equality in access to the Internet via secure trusted
digital identities and communications is a matter of human rights,
economic empowerment and poverty reduction. The COVID pandemic
situation has further increased the urgency for citizens, companies
and organizations to adapt themselves to a new reality where human
interactions with customers and among themselves must happen
electronically. Nevertheless, this must be done properly in order
not to introduce new security risks.
OISTE and WISeKey in cooperation with CGI started this project
back in 2006 with the objective to issue 1 billion identities to
poor people; one-fifth of the world’s population, approximately 1.5
billion people had no proper legal identification, and 50 million
children were born every year without a birth certificate and legal
identity thus they were off the radar for vital economic services,
including such as education and healthcare.
WISeKey’s WISeID platform which integrates state-of-the-art
technologies related to Digital Identity and BlockChain, is in line
with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals of providing
every person on the planet with a solid and tamper-proof digital
identity based on common, interoperable standards by 2030. Since
2016, as a first step, the United Nation has been seeking to
develop scalable identity systems. This initiative was launched at
the inaugural “ID2020 Summit ‒ Harnessing Digital Identity for the
Global Community,” held at the United Nations headquarters in New
York on May 20, 2016.
The CGI 2022 meeting will also include announcements of new
Commitments to Action™ – specific, measurable programs that address
a pressing global challenge – as well as updates on the impact from
previous CGI commitments. More than 3,700 Commitments to Action
have been launched through CGI since its inception in 2005, making
a difference in the lives of more than 435 million people in over
180 countries.
Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey noted, “For over two
decades, WISeKey in cooperation with the Swiss OISTE.ORG Foundation
have been global cybersecurity pioneers in delivering digital
identity ecosystems to secure personal identification. We are proud
to be able to continue executing our commitment with CGI during
this new edition.”
Digital Identification and Privacy are not just basic,
fundamental human rights, but also endangered rights. New digital
technologies track and scrutinize us all as the digital economy
considers every click, search or like as an asset to be monetized.
Our lives, reflected in cyberspace, are plundered for behavioral
data for the sake of a system that converts our freedom into
profit. We are quietly being domesticated into accepting as normal
that decision rights vanish before we even know that there is a
decision to make.A new awareness infused by a human-rights based
approach that consider each individual “netizen” as a dignified
moral being, worth of respect, is required. Otherwise, our
connectivity will continue to offer a perverse amalgam of
empowerment inextricably layered with diminishment.
About OISTE FoundationThe OISTE Foundation has
been working with the UN and other governmental and
non-governmental international organizations since 1998. Today, in
line with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, target
16.9 – giving everyone a legal identity by 2030 – OISTE focuses on
the challenge of harnessing digital identity for the global
community.
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 Foundation endorses the “Principles on Identification
for Sustainable Development.”
About WISeKey:WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY / SIX Swiss
Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity platform company
currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for
people and objects respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the
Internet. The WISeKey IoT technology stack includes a range of
technologies such as Semiconductors, eIDs, Blockchain, NFTs, Post
Quantum, Pico Satellites and Trust acting seamlessly as a platform
which secures the simple connection of objects to the Internet to
the most complex applications that use these connected objects, the
data they gather and communicate and the different steps needed to
power these applications.
The WISeKey Semiconductors Secures the pervasive computing
shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an
installed base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT
sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural
sensors, anti-counterfeiting, NFTs, smart lighting, servers,
computers, mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.).
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. 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 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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