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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 21829638" data-attributes="member: 218596"><img src="https://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20170619&t=2&i=1189653837&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=780&pl=468&sq=&r=LYNXMPED5I1TF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />People gather at the United Nations  headquarters for ID2020, a public-private consortium promoting the U.N.  2030 Sustainable Development Goal of providing legal identity for  everyone on the planet in New York City, New York, U.S. June 19, 2017. Accenture Plc and  Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using  blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to  provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no  official documents.The  companies unveiled a prototype of the network on Monday at the UN  headquarters in New York during the second summit of ID2020, a  public-private consortium promoting the UN 2030 Sustainable Development  Goal of providing legal identity for everyone on the planet.The  project aims to help individuals such as refugees prove who they are in  order to gain access to basic services such as education and  healthcare.Blockchain, first  developed as a public ledger of all transactions in the digital currency  bitcoin, is increasingly being used to securely track data in other  fields."Without an identity you  can't access education, financial services, healthcare, you name it. You  are disenfranchised and marginalized from society," David Treat, a  managing director in Accenture's financial services practice, said in an  interview.                                   "Having a digital identity is a basic human right."The  new platform will connect existing record-keeping systems of commercial  and public entities through blockchain, allowing users to access to  their personal information wherever they are.For  example, refugees who have fled their country leaving behind birth or  education paper certificates would still be able to provide proof of  those credentials through the system.                                   One  of the main advantages of blockchain is that it allows systems of  different organizations to communicate with each other, Yorke Rhodes,  global business strategist at Microsoft, said in an interview.The  prototype was built on top of an existing Accenture platform, which  powers the biometric identity management system used by the UN High  Commissioner for Refugees. Accenture and Microsoft, which worked on the  prototype with managed service provider Avanade Inc, are inviting other  companies to join their project.PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cisco Systems Inc are among the organizations involved in ID2020. "What  ID2020 is truly focused on is bringing together an alliance of  stakeholders to ensure the technology that is being developed is  responsive to the needs of individuals," Dakota Gruener, executive  director at ID2020, said in an interview. "Technology is only one piece of this." </blockquote>

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