Microsoft is partnering with ConsenSys, an Ethereum-coder collective, too Blockstack Labs, an application stack for decentralized, server-less apps secured past times the blockchain, inward trying to ameliorate the dry reason of the millions of people – by too large children – who human face upwardly severe challenges from having no legal identity.
The partners are engaged inward a long-term projection to employ blockchain-based solutions to the challenge of legal identity, Microsoft noted inward a blog on its Microsoft Azure website. Microsoft Azure is an opened upwardly cloud-computing platform.
The identity trial was explored during the recent ID2020 Summit inward New York City.
Alarming Identity Statistics
One too a one-half billion people – a 5th of the world’s population – lack proper identification.
A tertiary of the children nether 5 years onetime don’t officially be since they accept no nativity records.
A full of 230 i thou m children nether the historic menses of 5 accept no nativity certificate, a release that is growing.
A full of l i thou m children – the population of the U.K. – are born alongside no legal identity.
These “invisible” people are vulnerable to kid abuse, trafficking too prostitution. To address this problem, “Target 16.9″ of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is striving to plough over everyone about shape of legal identity, including nativity registration, past times 2030. To brand this chore easier to manage, ID2020 has developed a finish to render scalable, legal digital identity past times 2020.
Forum Looks To Technology
The ID2020 forum seeks to convey together the engineering scientific discipline sector too those who convey a working cognition of the cultural too social challenges. To accomplish progress, the forum has worked alongside parties knowledgeable well-nigh blockchain technology.
Microsoft has partnered alongside ConsenSys, Blockstack Labs too others on a blockchain-based identity scheme that permits people, apps, products too services to interoperate across cloud providers, blockchains too organizations. Microsoft wants to start out a dialogue on blockchain-based identity to ameliorate apps too services that volition enable self-sovereign too self-owned identity.
Blockchain-based systems tin found self-sovereign identity. Microsoft is working alongside ConsenSys too Blockstack Labs to leverage their Ethereum– too bitcoin-based identity solutions, uPort too Blockstack. Microsoft plans to create a cross-chain identity solution too extend it to futurity blockchains or other decentralized, distributed systems.
Microsoft acknowledges in that place are questions notwithstanding to endure answered. The companionship is nonetheless for certain that individuals volition endure able to register an identity inward a cross blockchain that provides a unmarried namespace for lookup regardless of their blockchain of choice. The solution’s self-sovereign nature allows dissimilar scenarios too provides an asset that the private owns. The solution contains attributes provided on a time-bound reason to solely those parties alongside a take away to know.
More To Come
Microsoft volition brand an opened upwardly origin framework available inward the coming weeks on Azure, where developers volition start out exploring how opened upwardly origin identity tin attain goodness their applications.
“We are excited to notice out the amazing things developers too organizations volition laid upwardly on this opened upwardly origin identity framework,” the weblog noted. “We are as excited past times the potential societal benefits that tin endure derived from an identity that transcends borders, blockchains, organizations, too companies.”
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