Universal Identity

Humanitys prosperity is premised on our deep-rooted ability to foster trust as individuals. Our everyday interactions depend on it. Without trust, society will struggle to progress. It may even regress. The new digital dawn of connected societies offers opportunity at hyperscale. But it also presents a significant challenge. How do we produce, mana... ge, and share trust effortlessly at a universal scale? Universal Identity (UID) is a non-profit company that has developed the blueprint for a sustainable, pervasive, and self-regulating trust model to be the bedrock for day-to-day interactions between man, machine, and everything else. This trust model is known simply as the Universal Framework. Its designed to be universal, private, ethical, autonomous, and secure. It operates as a ubiquitous fabric between the continuous information generated during engagement and the production and imparting of such information by participants. The Universal Framework also acknowledges that economic interest drives innovation. To this end, the trust model allows organisations to create valuable products and services upon it, whilst the network intrinsically protects the liberty of all citizens that make use of those products and services. Back in 2015, our founders each individually realised that the soon-to-be implemented Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act would not sufficiently deter and discourage data fraud in South Africa. In particular, they saw an opportunity for a universal identifier linked to a central repository of information. Not a consumer identifier, like what the Credit Bureaus use, but something that truly represented the story of each and every citizen. To enable every citizen to own and control their personal information. To implement a global data ecosystem, underpinned by a code of ethics and standards, that enables the identity data profiles of citizens to be ethically registered and owned by the citizens themselves, and where such identity data profiles are securely stored, safely managed, and ...Read More