Google baraja abrir un centro tecnológico en Valencia o Málaga
Las dos ciudades ofrecen interesantes perfiles tecnológicos para la compañía
Google, compañía creadora del poderoso motor de búsqueda por Internet, quiere tener un centro de desarrollo técnico en la denominada zona EMEA (Europa, Middle East, Africa). España constituye la opción más sólida. Aunque Google lleva una política informativa muy restrictiva y no confirma ni desmiente el hecho, según ha podido saber este periódico, dos ciudades españolas son las que mejor se adaptan. Se trata de Valencia y Málaga. Desde hace año y medio, Google considera estas dos ciudades que ofrecen interesantes perfiles tecnológicos y conexiones a dos horas de cualquier destino.
Valencia, además de la Campus Party, un acontecimiento electrónico en red que reúne anualmente a unos 7.000 participantes entre los que despuntan talentos interesantes para Google, cuenta con dos potentes universidades. A un lado, la Universitat de València, que está terminando de construir su parque científico. Al otro, la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, que se encuentra en la recta final para levantar su Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación. Ambas disponen de escuelas de Ingeniería Informática. Esta última fue objeto de una visita por parte de los ingenieros de Google hace una semana con vistas al reclutamiento de investigadores.
En uno de los centros de la Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación, el Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), han trabajado o han tenido cargos directivos investigadores que hoy ocupan puestos de responsabilidad en compañías del tamaño de Google o Microsoft. El sector de la informática representa el 2% del PIB valenciano y el instituto factura 4 millones de euros al año. En 2006 registró un incremento en sus ingresos del 300%. Valencia dispone también del Parque Tecnológico de Paterna, uno de los centros de investigación científica y técnica más avanzados.
Málaga cuenta a su favor con la iniciativa Club Málaga Valley, de la que forman parte un destacado grupo de dirigentes de compañías del sector de la sociedad de la información, como por ejemplo Cesar Alierta, de Telefónica, Juan Luís Cebrián, del Grupo PRISA, Eugenio Galdón, de ONO, Belarmino García, de France Telecom, Marieta del Rivero, de Nokia, Amparo Moraleda, de IBM España, o Carlos Moreira, de Wisekey. Asimismo, cuenta con el Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía, en el que están instaladas cerca de 500 empresas de telecomunicaciones, electrónica, software o servicios avanzados. La ciudad también dispone de una Universidad que supone un importante motor de investigación e innovación, con un proyecto de un Parque Científico. Además, Málaga, frente a Valencia, tiene una inequívoca vocación política de significación tecnológica,con apuestas serias para convertirse en foco de innovación en Europa.
mercredi 12 mars 2008
mercredi 27 février 2008
German ID card to allow pseudonyms
German ID card to allow pseudonyms
27 Feb 2008
The German Home Office has confirmed that a new electronic identity card for German citizens will incorporate the use of pseudonyms for secure web access.
According to the plans of the German Home Office, a credit card sized electronic identity card will be introduced in 2009. It will replace the larger, non-electronic identity cards currently in use. “Apart from the usual personal information, the electronic identity card will contain biometric information, in particular digital fingerprints of both index fingers, and additional information for facial recognition”, says secretary of state August Hanning.
Hanning confirmed that the new identity card will contain a pseudonym function. In a leaked letter to Gisela Piltz, a Member of German Parliament for the Liberal Democrats (FDP), Hanning stated that the card could be used as a “passport for the internet” in the future. “The new identity card offers the possibility of an electronic identity proof for E-Government- and E-Business-applications”, writes Hanning.
The central idea is that the individual card number is used to generate a pseudonym that cannot be reconverted mathematically into the original card number. This pseudonym could then be used to register at, for example, eBay, or any other web service that requires personal identification.
Using the pseudonym, the operator of a web service is guaranteed that the user is a ‘real’ person. The user, on the other hand, does not have to reveal their real name. Since the algorithms generate different pseudonyms for each web service, there is also no possibility whatsoever of tracking a person through the web.
Privacy advocates have long argued in favour of such a function on the new electronic identity cards and it seems now that they have won the case. But this development is not just of interest from a data privacy viewpoint; it could also have implications for health based smartcards.
A pseudonym function on a mandatory electronic identity card has the potential to dramatically increase the interest of citizens to buy smartcard readers for their home PCs. These smartcard readers could also be used for healthcare smartcards. This, in turn, would probably increase the willingness of industry to offer smartcard based e-health solutions, for example smartcard-based personal health records.
Convincing citizens (and doctors) to use smartcard readers to access personal medical data is one of the critical points of the German smartcard project. Although there is a law ruling that access to shared personal medical data should only be granted if both doctors and citizens use smartcards, the reality looks different. More and more regional electronic medical record-projects are coming up, and practically none use smartcards.
© 2008 E-HEALTH-MEDIA LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
27 Feb 2008
The German Home Office has confirmed that a new electronic identity card for German citizens will incorporate the use of pseudonyms for secure web access.
According to the plans of the German Home Office, a credit card sized electronic identity card will be introduced in 2009. It will replace the larger, non-electronic identity cards currently in use. “Apart from the usual personal information, the electronic identity card will contain biometric information, in particular digital fingerprints of both index fingers, and additional information for facial recognition”, says secretary of state August Hanning.
Hanning confirmed that the new identity card will contain a pseudonym function. In a leaked letter to Gisela Piltz, a Member of German Parliament for the Liberal Democrats (FDP), Hanning stated that the card could be used as a “passport for the internet” in the future. “The new identity card offers the possibility of an electronic identity proof for E-Government- and E-Business-applications”, writes Hanning.
The central idea is that the individual card number is used to generate a pseudonym that cannot be reconverted mathematically into the original card number. This pseudonym could then be used to register at, for example, eBay, or any other web service that requires personal identification.
Using the pseudonym, the operator of a web service is guaranteed that the user is a ‘real’ person. The user, on the other hand, does not have to reveal their real name. Since the algorithms generate different pseudonyms for each web service, there is also no possibility whatsoever of tracking a person through the web.
Privacy advocates have long argued in favour of such a function on the new electronic identity cards and it seems now that they have won the case. But this development is not just of interest from a data privacy viewpoint; it could also have implications for health based smartcards.
A pseudonym function on a mandatory electronic identity card has the potential to dramatically increase the interest of citizens to buy smartcard readers for their home PCs. These smartcard readers could also be used for healthcare smartcards. This, in turn, would probably increase the willingness of industry to offer smartcard based e-health solutions, for example smartcard-based personal health records.
Convincing citizens (and doctors) to use smartcard readers to access personal medical data is one of the critical points of the German smartcard project. Although there is a law ruling that access to shared personal medical data should only be granted if both doctors and citizens use smartcards, the reality looks different. More and more regional electronic medical record-projects are coming up, and practically none use smartcards.
© 2008 E-HEALTH-MEDIA LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
mercredi 20 février 2008
Two figures from Geneva’s hospitality industry have launched a committee to explore hosting the games in 11 years.
Tribune de Genève
Group aims for 2018 Winter Olympics
10:52 Two figures from Geneva’s hospitality industry have launched a committee to explore hosting the games in 11 years.
Organizers are today unveiling a bid by Geneva to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Hotelier Marco Torriani, manager of the Hôtel du Rhône and Jean-Pierre Jobin, president of Genève Tourisme, have launched an exploratory committee with SFr200,000 in funding from Sport-Toto, the Basel-based sports betting company. “Seventy years after the Olympic Games of St. Moritz, it would be marvelous to organize them again in Switzerland,” said Torriani, a native of Davos and son of the well-known Swiss hockey player Bibi Torriani.
“The Olympic Games are an incredible calling card, above all for a country that lives a lot around its mountain resorts.” The pair has already contacted ski operators in Vaud and Valais about the possible venture. Switzerland last tried for the Winter Olympics held in 2006, which it hoped to host in Sion (Valais), but the event was awarded to Turin, Italy. The possibility of launching a bid in conjunction with a ski hill in neighboring France appears to be out of the question, given the reluctance of Olympic authorities to award games to more than one country at a time.
Torriani and Jobin hope to stir interest in their project with press conferences today in Geneva and Zurich. The Tribune de Genève today devotes two pages to the proposal. The newspaper mentions Crans-Montana as a possible venue for skiing and suggests the 30,000-seat Geneva stadium could be used for opening ceremonies. But at least one new facility would have to be built – the Vernets rink is not considered adequate for Olympic ice hockey matches.
Group aims for 2018 Winter Olympics
10:52 Two figures from Geneva’s hospitality industry have launched a committee to explore hosting the games in 11 years.
Organizers are today unveiling a bid by Geneva to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Hotelier Marco Torriani, manager of the Hôtel du Rhône and Jean-Pierre Jobin, president of Genève Tourisme, have launched an exploratory committee with SFr200,000 in funding from Sport-Toto, the Basel-based sports betting company. “Seventy years after the Olympic Games of St. Moritz, it would be marvelous to organize them again in Switzerland,” said Torriani, a native of Davos and son of the well-known Swiss hockey player Bibi Torriani.
“The Olympic Games are an incredible calling card, above all for a country that lives a lot around its mountain resorts.” The pair has already contacted ski operators in Vaud and Valais about the possible venture. Switzerland last tried for the Winter Olympics held in 2006, which it hoped to host in Sion (Valais), but the event was awarded to Turin, Italy. The possibility of launching a bid in conjunction with a ski hill in neighboring France appears to be out of the question, given the reluctance of Olympic authorities to award games to more than one country at a time.
Torriani and Jobin hope to stir interest in their project with press conferences today in Geneva and Zurich. The Tribune de Genève today devotes two pages to the proposal. The newspaper mentions Crans-Montana as a possible venue for skiing and suggests the 30,000-seat Geneva stadium could be used for opening ceremonies. But at least one new facility would have to be built – the Vernets rink is not considered adequate for Olympic ice hockey matches.
dimanche 10 février 2008
Carlos Moreira support to the International Organization for Migrations
To raise global awareness and access to digital identity for the Poor
Photo: Business Advisory Board IOM - Members are Tadashi Okamura, Chairman, Toshiba Group; Shafik Gabr, Chairman & CEO, ARTOC Group for Investment and Development; John Conroy, Chairman, Baker & McKenzie; Dr. Dae Whan Chang, Chairman, The Maeil Group; Ms. Carla Cico, Former CEO, Brasil Telecom; Mr. Kais Daly, Chairman and General Manager, Groupe Chimique Tunisien; Dr. J.P. Huang, Chairman, JPI Group; Mr. Paul Laudicina, Managing Director, A.T. Kearney; Mr. Carlos Moreira, Chairman, WISeKey SA; Mr. Ikram ul-Majeed Sehgal, Managing Director, Pathfinder Group; Dr. Jannie Tay, CEO, The Hour Glass, Dr. Naresh Trehan, Executive Director, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre; Claude Bebear, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, AXA; and Ricardo B. Salinas, Chairman, Grupo Salinas
samedi 9 février 2008
WISeKey Launch Global e-Security Infrastructure for Digital TV which will Protect Billions of Digital TV Devices Worldwide
DVB Services and WISeKey Launch Global e-Security Infrastructure for Digital TV which will Protect Billions of Digital TV Devices Worldwide
WISeKey SA, a global leader in identity management services, announced that it is now providing to digital TV broadcasters and to manufacturers of DVB Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) consumer devices a security infrastructure that it has built and operates on behalf of DVB Services Sarl. The infrastructure enables the Digital Video Broadcasting community worldwide – broadcasters, digital television device manufacturers, and interactive TV application developers – to benefit from an unrivalled level of trust and reliability on global digital television networks.
The DVB MHP security system has been devised to avoid the typical information security risks that plague cyberspace today:
* "Denial of Service" through competing applications, malicious attacks or other means
* Unauthorized use of user data
* Unauthorized use or theft of content
* Compromise of the integrity of content in the content delivery chain
* Unauthorized use of the return channel
* Unauthorized access to the communication on the return channel
* Malicious damage of the MHP device by an application
Access to the infrastructure will enable broadcasters and manufacturers to benefit from essential security components enshrined in the DVB MHP specifications adopted by ETSI.
Using WISeKey’s hightrusted managed services from its high security data centers in Switzerland, WISeKey, as operator of the infrastructure under a contract with DVB Services, will issue digital certificates for broadcasters and digital television application developers. The infrastructure will also allow manufacturers of digital television devices – for example set top boxes or digital televisions compliant with the DVB MHP standard – to enable their devices to access the infrastructure.
The MHP standard requires all DVB MHP television set and set top box manufacturers to install a root certificate in each device and all DVB MHP broadcasters to have their own identity certificate. When a broadcaster transmits an MHP application, the device authenticates it as coming from a recognised source, with permissions to execute on the original network to which it is attached.
Adopted by the DVB Project, the DVB MHP standard is the leading open standard for interactive digital television. The trusted services supplied by WISeKey will guarantee the integrity of digital television applications running MHP. The service will constitute a mechanism by which programming and applications flowing through the DVB Services infrastructure are authenticated and authorized.
WISeKey and DVB Services are ready to receive applications for DVB MHP digital certificates and root certificate embedding in devices. Please visit the DVB Services Web site for details on enrolment at http://www.dvbservices.org
dimanche 3 février 2008
El Partido Popular celebra el foro 'Diálogo Digital Popular'
El Partido Popular celebra el foro 'Diálogo Digital Popular'
Este pasado día 19 de enero el Partido Popular (PP) inauguró en Madrid el foro 'Diálogo Digital Popular'. En línea con los diferentes encuentros que a lo largo de los últimos meses ha mantenido el candidato a la presidencia del gobierno, Mariano Rajoy, con representantes de la industria digital y de las tecnologías de la Sociedad de la Información, tuvo lugar esta convención sobre el mundo digital, de las nuevas tecnologías y de las comunicaciones electrónicas. La organización del acto corrió a cargo del Partido Popular, con la voluntad de ser el más importante foro de diálogo y encuentro entre un partido político mayoritario y este sector.
Rajoy aprovechó el foro para exponer la postura de su partido en temas tan candentes como la aplicación del llamado canon digital y su voluntad de buscar vías alternativas para la compensación. Rajoy quiso, así, escenificar su idea de implicar a los diferentes sectores implicados en el debate para obtener ideas sobre cómo debe ser la aplicación del canon. Por esta razón desde su partido se ha creado la página web www.dialogodigitalpopular.com.
Entre el nutrido grupo de asistentes a este evento se puede destacar la presencia de autoridades en el campo de las telecomunicaciones y las nuevas tecnologías como Santiago Cortés, presidente de HP en España y Portugal; Alfredo Redondo, presidente de Alcatel en España y Latinoamérica; Fernando Rodríguez, consejero delegado de Optimedia; Daisuke Takada, presidente de NEC en España y Portugal; o Carlos Moreira, presidente de Wisekey. Por parte del partido político, estuvieron presentes Juan Costa, coordinador del programa electoral del Partido Popular, y Javier Cremades, coordinador del Diálogo Digital Popular. Mariano Rajoy fue el encargado de clausurar la convención.
Este pasado día 19 de enero el Partido Popular (PP) inauguró en Madrid el foro 'Diálogo Digital Popular'. En línea con los diferentes encuentros que a lo largo de los últimos meses ha mantenido el candidato a la presidencia del gobierno, Mariano Rajoy, con representantes de la industria digital y de las tecnologías de la Sociedad de la Información, tuvo lugar esta convención sobre el mundo digital, de las nuevas tecnologías y de las comunicaciones electrónicas. La organización del acto corrió a cargo del Partido Popular, con la voluntad de ser el más importante foro de diálogo y encuentro entre un partido político mayoritario y este sector.
Rajoy aprovechó el foro para exponer la postura de su partido en temas tan candentes como la aplicación del llamado canon digital y su voluntad de buscar vías alternativas para la compensación. Rajoy quiso, así, escenificar su idea de implicar a los diferentes sectores implicados en el debate para obtener ideas sobre cómo debe ser la aplicación del canon. Por esta razón desde su partido se ha creado la página web www.dialogodigitalpopular.com.
Entre el nutrido grupo de asistentes a este evento se puede destacar la presencia de autoridades en el campo de las telecomunicaciones y las nuevas tecnologías como Santiago Cortés, presidente de HP en España y Portugal; Alfredo Redondo, presidente de Alcatel en España y Latinoamérica; Fernando Rodríguez, consejero delegado de Optimedia; Daisuke Takada, presidente de NEC en España y Portugal; o Carlos Moreira, presidente de Wisekey. Por parte del partido político, estuvieron presentes Juan Costa, coordinador del programa electoral del Partido Popular, y Javier Cremades, coordinador del Diálogo Digital Popular. Mariano Rajoy fue el encargado de clausurar la convención.
mardi 29 janvier 2008
HighTrusted exclusive social network used to secure the The Global Competitiveness Forum (“GCF”) at http://www.hightrusted.com/gcf2008/
WISekey HighTrusted exclusive social network used to secure the The Global Competitiveness Forum (“GCF”) at http://www.hightrusted.com/gcf2008/ under the patronage of H.M. King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz
The GCF is an annual meeting of top business executives, international political leaders, selected intellectuals, and academics who share an interest in global competitiveness. Undoubtedly, Saudi Arabia will celebrate its new ranking in terms of “ease to do business” –rated as 23rd country worldwide and 1st in the Middle East and in the Arab world. Last year, more than 500 of these key leaders participated in the first annual GCF.
The forum also attracts internationally recognized leaders to speak and participate. Sub-themes have been designed around various aspects of competitiveness to create the appropriate platform for discussion by experts, corporate leaders, political leaders, NGOs, academics, and other stakeholders. The event is designed to be a premier gathering of thought leaders and innovators who will then participate in the World Economic Forum.
In 2008 and under the patronage of H.M. King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, the forum is to gather 1,000 internationally recognized leaders. The program is designed to create a discussion platform for experts, corporate leaders, political leaders, NGOs, academics and other stakeholders.
The Forum used Hightrusted.com to a High Trusted Social Network Platform developed by WISekey in partnership with PUBLICIS LIVE which includes a high-level, digital identity verification solution, designed specifically to authenticate that the person is who they say they are to verify the user's identity to provide a safer virtual environment for people to network in.”
HighTrusted.Com is an exclusive social network, which is designed for those who requires only to discuss with authenticated high worth networkers. HighTrusted allows members to interact more effectively with people sharing their profiles. In order to maintain the selection and exclusivity of the social network, strick criterias of selection and admittance are required. To join the social network you will need to be invited by one existing high trusted member.
Based on the success and momentum generated from the November 2006 meeting, SAGIA will hosted the 2nd GCF (from January 20th to January 22nd, 2008 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), building continuity and establishing the forum as an annual, international event in Saudi Arabia. The goal of holding this 2nd forum is to provide a high-profile and global perspective on competitiveness that simultaneously increases the visibility of the Kingdom’s efforts and further develops the competitiveness forum series.
The theme of the forum itself, “Competitiveness as an Engine for Economic Growth” aims to draw attention to the macroeconomic benefit of competitiveness and to position competitiveness as a key global challenge.
The forum also attracts internationally recognized leaders to speak and participate. Sub-themes have been designed around various aspects of competitiveness to create the appropriate platform for discussion by experts, corporate leaders, political leaders, NGOs, academics, and other stakeholders. The event is designed to be a premier gathering of thought leaders and innovators who will then participate in the World Economic Forum.
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