In the beginning
The journey of ULISSES
The journey of Ulisses started when Martina Duenser-Davis was invited to moderate the Voices of Faith Event ”Every Voice Counts” at World Women’s Day 2015 – right from the heart of the Vatican, where women from all over the world shared their experience with helping victims e.g. of human trafficking, modern slavery, murder, and terror for religious reasons, wartime atrocities against women… Keeping in touch with those fighting for justice and their everyday problems, she was constantly moved by her strict will to contribute in her way.
Three years later, Martina was attending an event of the Liechtenstein Initiative (FAST – Finance against slavery and human trafficking, https://www.fastinitiative.org), where she learned still more about the tremendous dimensions of this form of crime.
Since then, she started looking for an overall solution - a solution to apply to everyone and everybody in the world to prevent people from becoming victims of slavery and trafficking.
Due to her legal background, she stated that the crucial point in nearly every case was the proof of identity - because the Proof-of-Identity is relevant for almost all governmental, administrative services, and many private business processes!
Challenges of creating legal identities
Issues
Passports
The form of physical documents is old-fashioned: easy to be stolen or lost, with enormous potential for forging.
National Civil Registers
Access depends on personal capacities and localisation - poverty, illiteracy, and corruption issues.
Challenges of creating legal identities
Conclusions
A modern proof of identity has to work without any document, just by the features of a person, and may not depend on a national office nor the financial potential of the people.
Learning about the Liechtenstein Token Act and the opportunities of biometric authentication, in 2018 Martina put 1+1 together…
While with biometric authentication, we can recognize a person by her physical features; Blockchain Technology provides us with data packages that are immutable but complementable. Unlike physical documents, they are not easy to steal or lose. They are accessible by all persons with internet access, everywhere and every time, at the highest level of data protection. Last but not least, it can be designed corruption-resistant.
Since 2015 the world has changed a lot. Digital life is growing fast – the need for a secure digital identification system is parallelly growing, from Web 1 to 3 with upcoming national, sectorial, or commercial eIDs and SSIs every month…
BUT THEY ARE ALL DRIVEN BY ECONOMIC INTEREST OR/AND NATIONAL FOCUS!
WE NEED A NEW AND JUST CONCEPT OF A WORD-WIDE DIGITAL IDENTITY SYSTEM!
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