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10.02.2013 — The International Organization for Secure Electronic Transactions (OISTE.ORG) has been granted special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) by the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations during its 2013 regular session in New York.
Read more>29.10.2012 — Gini met OISTE and WISeKey
GINI had a fruitful meeting with OISTE and WISekey in Geneva on October 29th, 2012. The aim of the meeting was to explore how OISTE and WISeKey could act as possible operators and/or relying parties within the INDI ecosystem. In this context, WISeKey’s experience in developing solutions for enabling secure, trustworthy transactions, supported by OISTE policies, provided crucial insights for realising the GINI vision. The discussion also focused on what is required for putting in place a global clearing house that is capable of taking on board diverse stakeholder representation from both government and private sectors. OISTE especially, emphasised the need of an independent organisation which can leverage a user-centric, vendor neutral policy framework for identity management. Go to website >23.07.2012 — The GINI agenda was presented at a special session on identity management organised by ITU/OISTE at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), in Geneva on May 16th 2012
Eco to the WSIS thematic workshop on the EU project: "Global Identity Networking of Individuals — Support Action... Go to website >
03.07.2012 — Edited transcription of the round-table “Matching the speed of the running code: public awareness and digital identity management”
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16.05.2012 — OISTE.ORG Coordinates Thematic Workshop on Public Awareness and Digital Identity Awareness at the WSIS 2012 Forum
Geneva — The OISTE Foundation is participating in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum by coordinating a thematic workshop at this year's event. OISTE led the workshop titled "Matching the speed of the running code: public awareness and digital identity management", intended to create awareness among Internet users about the risks of the present environment and the threats to individual privacy rights. more >
16.05.2012 — OISTE Position Statement
The OISTE foundation recognizes the importance of showing improvements in Agenda Action Lines 5, Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs and 7, the development of ICT applications to e-government, e-health, e-education, e-business, e-agriculture, but wishes to emphasize that this will not be possible unless all stakeholders succeed in introducing secure, interoperable and reliable methods of digital identity management. read more >