Accenture, Microsoft Develop Global (Ethereum-based?) Blockchain Digital ID Platform

Services giant Accenture and technology powerhouse Microsoft have teamed up to build an unprecedented global digital ID program to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people without documents around the world.

People without a documented identity suffer by being excluded from modern society. Our prototype is personal, private and portable, empowering individuals to access and share appropriate information when convenient without the worry of using or losing paper documentation.

In helping establish their identities, the ID2020 program aims to help individuals and refugees gain access to basic services including healthcare and education in a new land. Birth certificates and education certificates, both of which are traditionally recorded on paper, will also be digitized.
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