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Carlos Moreira, el español que creó Wisekey
La empresa de seguridad digital suiza, dirigida por el español Carlos Moreira, rompe el dominio de Estados Unidos en las transacciones electrónicas - Wisekey añade contenidos al DNI electrónico
MIQUEL ALBEROLA
Hombre del Año 2007 para L'Agefi, la publicación financiera y tecnológica suiza, Carlos Moreira (La Línea de la Concepción, 1958), ha hecho de Wisekey una de las empresas de seguridad digital más potentes del mundo. La suya es la historia de un español que emigró y que regresa.
Hombre del Año 2007 para L'Agefi, la publicación financiera y tecnológica suiza, Carlos Moreira (La Línea de la Concepción, 1958), ha hecho de Wisekey una de las empresas de seguridad digital más potentes del mundo. La suya es la historia de un español que emigró y que regresa. Con sangre portuguesa, andaluza y catalana, se fue a Suiza para estudiar hostelería en Lausana, pero al acabar Ciencias Económicas entró en la ONU y fue durante años su director de tecnología.
Moreira creó en 1999 Wisekey (World Internet Security Key, cuyo acrónimo significa también 'llave de sabiduría'), una empresa tecnológica y geopolítica para que los países controlasen su infraestructura de seguridad. Hasta los años noventa, el dominio de este sistema de seguridad era exclusivamente norteamericano y las raíces criptográficas utilizadas para emitir llaves estaban asimismo controladas por grandes empresas norteamericanas. Su trabajo en la ONU había sido ayudar a los países a no tener demasiada dependencia de esa tecnología que se iba a convertir en la clave de todas las transacciones por Internet (votar, pagar impuestos, hacer transferencias financieras...).
Moreira pensaba que esa tecnología tenía que democratizarse para dar a los países la capacidad de gestionar lo que les correspondía sin depender de esas empresas norteamericanas, y el tiempo le dio la razón en la medida que los proyectos de documento de identidad nacional, los de pasaporte biométrico, los de control de accesos dependen de este modelo de raíces.
Neutralidad asegurada
Wisekey, implantada en una ciudad como Ginebra, que ya gestionaba bien el secreto bancario, ha extrapolado esos mismos valores a Internet, según Moreira. "Le estamos dando una neutralidad que Internet no tenía hasta ahora a través de Wisekey", apunta.
Apenas tres meses después del lanzamiento del proyecto, Wisekey ya era empresa que le daba el sistema de certificación al Organismo Internacional de Telecomunicaciones, que es el organismo de estandarización de la identificación y el que controla los sistemas de telefonía GSM, UMTS o 3G.
En 2000 la empresa inició un proyecto pionero de votaciones electrónicas para distintos gobiernos y para la Corte Internacional de Justicia. "Mi idea era demostrar que la tecnología de Wisekey era lo suficientemente robusta para hacer de Internet un medio viable y seguro", afirma.
En 2003, Microsoft seleccionó Wisekey como la empresa más innovadora en Europa. Moreira creó una solución Wisekey en Windows, que en el fondo daba a Microsoft la seguridad y la confianza que los usuarios no le querían dar porque se cayó con el proyecto Password.net. "Quizá confías en la seguridad que Microsoft te pueda dar como sistema de información, pero no necesariamente la confianza para guardar tus llaves criptográficas y tus identidades", explica.
Moreira detectó ahí que el mercado de la seguridad y el de la confianza eran diferentes, pero había muy pocas empresas en el ámbito de la confianza electrónica. Entonces especializó Wisekey en eso.
Junto a Microsoft ha realizado una gran carrera seleccionada como el lead banner de identificación digital. Su tecnología se encuentra tanto en el sistema operativo Vista como en el próximo Windows. Microsoft, instalado en el 98% de los servidores del mundo, le aportó la masificación de la tecnología. "La activación de Wisekey se hace muy rápidamente a través de Internet, y si tienes una plataforma Windows puedes empezar a emitir identidades sin necesidad de añadir más software", matiza.
Wisekey añade contenidos al DNI electrónico que van más allá de las transacciones administrativas, por lo que desarrolló un sistema federador de identidades para agrupar en una sola tarjeta distintas tareas, un modelo que ha permitido a Wisekey colocarse como empresa global de identificación. En cada país se controla las bases de datos locales, en vez de crear una base de datos de millones de personas en Suiza para gestionar identidades.
"Nosotros creamos raíces nacionales que ponen sus identidades en el mercado a través de los acuerdos con los gobiernos, pero si ese país intenta intercambiar pasa por Wisekey, que es una especie de GSM que a través del roaming te permite salir de un país a otro". La primera fase de la empresa fue gubernamental sobre todo, gobiernos que querían crear raíces criptográficas. Las participaciones de los gobiernos han sido a tres niveles. En el estándar X509, todos los gobiernos del mundo son usuarios de Wisekey. En la fase tecnológica, cuando el gobierno posee el estándar, son 12 países los clientes.
Moreira contrató en España a Víctor Canivell, el director general de Safelayer, empresa que ha hecho el DNI electrónico con Indra. La firma busca acuerdos con otras compañías que ya tengan penetración en el mercado en cada país, como Brasilinvest.
En España, empezó en Bilbao a través de un grupo metalúrgico que estaba diversificando su inversión. Además, está en conversaciones con la empresa Simauria, dirigida por David Iribas, el responsable de la red física y el área de software libre de la Campus Party, para introducirse en Valencia, ciudad que considera idónea para ser el hub tecnológico del Mediterráneo.
La identidad es personal
En España afronta algunos proyectos interesantes como en Cataluña, con la certificación del Colegio de Médicos de Girona y el Portal del Ciudadano de Bilbao y Vizcaya, así como contactos con Telefónica para la identidad de móviles.
Sin embargo, Moreira considera que el potencial de Wisekey no está en que los gobiernos adopten su sistema, sino en el uso generalizado de una identidad digital. El modelo de Wisekey es que "la identidad de la persona es controlada por la persona. Ni siquiera por el gobierno, que tiene un acceso político a la identidad, pero la identidad de una persona es un derecho humano. Primero yo soy Carlos y luego soy español, suizo o francés, y no es mi gobierno el que debe controlar el hecho de que yo sea Carlos", afirma. A su juicio, Wisekey está haciendo en la identidad lo que Google hizo en la búsqueda: "Estamos revolucionando el control de la identidad. Eso revoluciona todo el proceso y ahí está el potencial de creación".
El candado del Alinghi
Para entrar en los mercados de masificación, Wisekey apunta hacia la telefonía móvil y el deporte como vectores de crecimiento para el futuro.
En ese sentido, llegó a un acuerdo con el suizo Ernesto Bertarelli para ocuparse de la seguridad del Alinghi durante la celebración de la Copa del América en Valencia.
El reto cubrió todos los frentes de Wisekey: identificación para acceder a la base, cifrar los mensajes para que el otro desafío no te los lea, firmar digitalmente los planos de las velas y de los barcos, comunicación entre la base y la fábrica...
"Todo ese ecosistema era muy favorable para mostrar el potencial y la diversificación de la tecnología Wisekey y decidimos entrar como patrocinadores de una forma muy representativa a través de la tarjeta Alinghi, con la que puedes entrar en el sitio web de Alinghi y haces una transacción electrónica a un área cifrada en la base o en la Escuela Politécnica de Lausana. Así, los miembros de la sociedad Alinghi tienen un servicio de alta calidad y seguridad a través de un Internet abierto", explica Moreira.
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jeudi 24 juillet 2008
The Mediterranean economy Club Med
The Mediterranean economy
Club Med
Jul 10th 2008
From The Economist print edition
The Mediterranean, north and south, is forming a single economic unit: Europe should make it a powerful one
UNDER imperial Rome, the roads in cold, wet Britannia were no straighter than those in sweltering north Africa. The same sestertius could buy a lampful of oil. Across the southern Mediterranean and northern Europe alike, Latin was the lingua franca—1,500 years before anyone had coined the term. Under the Treaty of Rome, however, the European Union has behaved as if the Med were a frontier, rather than an organising principle. As often as not, it has turned its back on the crescent that stretches from Morocco to Turkey, as a cradle of instability and terrorism. Sometimes the southern Med’s main export has seemed to be boatloads of illegal immigrants.
This weekend at a summit in Paris France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, wants to heal the rift. Some 40 heads of state and government from the EU and the southern and eastern Mediterranean will meet to create a new club, called the Union for the Mediterranean. Despite Mr Sarkozy’s bombast, Club Med will have a modest start: the French propose a secretariat, which they will jointly head with Egypt, and money to help finance ventures on solar energy, anti-terrorism and the inevitable cultural exchanges.
Beyond the platitudes and projects lies the germ of a brilliant idea. Something is stirring around the Med as globalisation takes root. Growth and investment have leapt. There is a new openness to trade and foreign money. The members of Club Med no longer need to glower across the table at each other. Instead, there is the prospect of the youth and vigour of the southern Mediterranean combining with a rich, ageing north. Despite the recent surge, the southern Med still takes less than 10% of all the FDI from the EU. This offers a tantalising prospect—though one reason why Club Med matters is that it is fraught with dangers.
Dido’s cement
The EU has looked south before, in an initiative called the Barcelona Process, which dates back 13 years and failed to live up to its promises. Hopes are higher today, however, because the politicians gathering in Paris are following a path that is increasingly well trodden by business (see article). FDI in the countries along the Mediterranean shore, from Morocco to Turkey, has grown six times since the turn of the century, to $59 billion in 2006—ahead of Latin America’s Mercosur ($25 billion) and not far short of China ($69 billion). At the same time, the growth in the region’s GDP is running at 4.4% a year—slow by China’s standards, admittedly, but it has been accelerating as Europe has slowed.
Although Turkey, Israel and Egypt still dominate, most of the region has shared in this prosperity. Oil and gas are partly to thank, but investment is spread among financial services, telecoms, retailing and construction. Look at the car factory Renault and Nissan are planning in Morocco. Or the new container port outside Tangiers that will soon be bigger than Long Beach, on America’s west coast. Much of the money comes from Europe, as did the €8.8 billion ($12.9 billion) France’s Lafarge invested in Egyptian cement. But Americans are making aerospace parts; Arabs are spending petrodollars on property and construction; Brazilians are investing in fertilisers and textiles; Indians in IT and pharmaceuticals.
There is strength in such diversity, and there needs to be. The resurgent Med has a lot still to overcome. With exceptions, notably Israel, the region is plagued by poor infrastructure, an ill-educated workforce and unemployment. Unlike eastern Europe, which built trading links under communism, the Med countries barely trade with each other, so they lose the benefits of specialisation. And then there is the politics. The Europeans are right to look askance at the looming crisis of succession in Egypt, beleaguered Israel, unborn Palestine, divided Lebanon, fundamentalist Islam in Morocco, bombs in Algeria, Muammar Qaddafi’s bizarre Libyan autocracy, the risk that the Turkish courts declare the ruling party unconstitutional. That unfinished list is already depressingly long.
The EU is not free of troubles either. Those who favour Turkey’s membership of the EU fear that Club Med is designed to fob it off with second-class citizenship. At first Mr Sarkozy schemed to include only the EU countries with a Mediterranean coast—a ploy to create a French-dominated counterbalance to the apparently German-dominated east. After a vicious row with Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, Mr Sarkozy agreed to include the entire EU. That was right, if only because Germany pays much of the EU’s bills.
Sunday’s summit matters, because it is a step towards healing such wounds—and because it sets the tone. Will the Mediterranean union seize the moment, or will it be strangled by southern politics and European squabbles?
Mare nostrums
The first test is whether Mr Sarkozy is willing to see Club Med as more than a scheme to burnish French glory. If he wants the new union to thrive, he will have to accept that it is for everyone’s benefit, and let business do its work. This means a free-trade area that opens the EU to goods and services from the south—including the farm produce that France is making a fuss over in the world trade talks.
The second is for the EU to use its patronage to boost spending on infrastructure, promote trade in the region and clean up politics. One lesson from eastern Europe is that, with incentives, countries will start to sort themselves out. For the Mediterranean, those incentives should include access to funds and markets. The logic of enlargement is that it could even include the faint possibility of membership of the EU itself (if the union were to admit non-Europeans). But none of that will count for much unless the southern Med chooses prosperity.
The world sometimes writes off Europe as the old continent, well past the vigour of youth and doomed to gentle decline; at the same time it condemns many of the teeming economies of the southern Med as chaotic backwaters. Old and young can make a powerful combination. The creation of the Union for the Mediterranean is hardly the rebirth of imperial Rome, but it may just be the start of something exciting.
Club Med
Jul 10th 2008
From The Economist print edition
The Mediterranean, north and south, is forming a single economic unit: Europe should make it a powerful one
UNDER imperial Rome, the roads in cold, wet Britannia were no straighter than those in sweltering north Africa. The same sestertius could buy a lampful of oil. Across the southern Mediterranean and northern Europe alike, Latin was the lingua franca—1,500 years before anyone had coined the term. Under the Treaty of Rome, however, the European Union has behaved as if the Med were a frontier, rather than an organising principle. As often as not, it has turned its back on the crescent that stretches from Morocco to Turkey, as a cradle of instability and terrorism. Sometimes the southern Med’s main export has seemed to be boatloads of illegal immigrants.
This weekend at a summit in Paris France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, wants to heal the rift. Some 40 heads of state and government from the EU and the southern and eastern Mediterranean will meet to create a new club, called the Union for the Mediterranean. Despite Mr Sarkozy’s bombast, Club Med will have a modest start: the French propose a secretariat, which they will jointly head with Egypt, and money to help finance ventures on solar energy, anti-terrorism and the inevitable cultural exchanges.
Beyond the platitudes and projects lies the germ of a brilliant idea. Something is stirring around the Med as globalisation takes root. Growth and investment have leapt. There is a new openness to trade and foreign money. The members of Club Med no longer need to glower across the table at each other. Instead, there is the prospect of the youth and vigour of the southern Mediterranean combining with a rich, ageing north. Despite the recent surge, the southern Med still takes less than 10% of all the FDI from the EU. This offers a tantalising prospect—though one reason why Club Med matters is that it is fraught with dangers.
Dido’s cement
The EU has looked south before, in an initiative called the Barcelona Process, which dates back 13 years and failed to live up to its promises. Hopes are higher today, however, because the politicians gathering in Paris are following a path that is increasingly well trodden by business (see article). FDI in the countries along the Mediterranean shore, from Morocco to Turkey, has grown six times since the turn of the century, to $59 billion in 2006—ahead of Latin America’s Mercosur ($25 billion) and not far short of China ($69 billion). At the same time, the growth in the region’s GDP is running at 4.4% a year—slow by China’s standards, admittedly, but it has been accelerating as Europe has slowed.
Although Turkey, Israel and Egypt still dominate, most of the region has shared in this prosperity. Oil and gas are partly to thank, but investment is spread among financial services, telecoms, retailing and construction. Look at the car factory Renault and Nissan are planning in Morocco. Or the new container port outside Tangiers that will soon be bigger than Long Beach, on America’s west coast. Much of the money comes from Europe, as did the €8.8 billion ($12.9 billion) France’s Lafarge invested in Egyptian cement. But Americans are making aerospace parts; Arabs are spending petrodollars on property and construction; Brazilians are investing in fertilisers and textiles; Indians in IT and pharmaceuticals.
There is strength in such diversity, and there needs to be. The resurgent Med has a lot still to overcome. With exceptions, notably Israel, the region is plagued by poor infrastructure, an ill-educated workforce and unemployment. Unlike eastern Europe, which built trading links under communism, the Med countries barely trade with each other, so they lose the benefits of specialisation. And then there is the politics. The Europeans are right to look askance at the looming crisis of succession in Egypt, beleaguered Israel, unborn Palestine, divided Lebanon, fundamentalist Islam in Morocco, bombs in Algeria, Muammar Qaddafi’s bizarre Libyan autocracy, the risk that the Turkish courts declare the ruling party unconstitutional. That unfinished list is already depressingly long.
The EU is not free of troubles either. Those who favour Turkey’s membership of the EU fear that Club Med is designed to fob it off with second-class citizenship. At first Mr Sarkozy schemed to include only the EU countries with a Mediterranean coast—a ploy to create a French-dominated counterbalance to the apparently German-dominated east. After a vicious row with Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, Mr Sarkozy agreed to include the entire EU. That was right, if only because Germany pays much of the EU’s bills.
Sunday’s summit matters, because it is a step towards healing such wounds—and because it sets the tone. Will the Mediterranean union seize the moment, or will it be strangled by southern politics and European squabbles?
Mare nostrums
The first test is whether Mr Sarkozy is willing to see Club Med as more than a scheme to burnish French glory. If he wants the new union to thrive, he will have to accept that it is for everyone’s benefit, and let business do its work. This means a free-trade area that opens the EU to goods and services from the south—including the farm produce that France is making a fuss over in the world trade talks.
The second is for the EU to use its patronage to boost spending on infrastructure, promote trade in the region and clean up politics. One lesson from eastern Europe is that, with incentives, countries will start to sort themselves out. For the Mediterranean, those incentives should include access to funds and markets. The logic of enlargement is that it could even include the faint possibility of membership of the EU itself (if the union were to admit non-Europeans). But none of that will count for much unless the southern Med chooses prosperity.
The world sometimes writes off Europe as the old continent, well past the vigour of youth and doomed to gentle decline; at the same time it condemns many of the teeming economies of the southern Med as chaotic backwaters. Old and young can make a powerful combination. The creation of the Union for the Mediterranean is hardly the rebirth of imperial Rome, but it may just be the start of something exciting.
mercredi 16 juillet 2008
OISTE and Malaga Valley Group today signed an agreement to use WISeKey’s Common Global Root and scalable PKI hierarchy to establish a Euro-African Hub
OISTE and Malaga Valley Group today signed an agreement to use WISeKey’s Common Global Root and scalable PKI hierarchy to establish a Euro-African Hub
OISTE will help the government of Malaga become the new Euro-African Hub, with the aim of optimizing economic-social-cultural relations between Europe and Africa. This will be accomplished using the infrastructure of the Technology Park of Malaga and Malaga Valley and its unique geopolitical location. The project will be financed by the private sector, the European Union (EU) and the Spanish government.
Spain is eager to increase support to its continental neighbour, and the establishment of a Euro-African Hub is a logical and essential step. The Hub will become both a super-platform for optimizing commercial, technological and cultural links between the European Union and Africa, and also meeting-point and a place for research and study. Its location in Malaga is the work of the International Organization for the Security of Electronic Transactions (OISTE), the provincial government and the local business sector. The Hub is a natural step following the significant investments already deployed to convert Malaga into a leader of Euro-African initiatives. The provincial government of Malaga, with the help of Madrid and Brussels, has the firm objective to instantiate this new Hub as one of the major superhighways of Information Technology and Worldwide Communications (ICT).
To make the most of the potential of this project, the signatories intend to transform Malaga with this important technological Hub, which includes Internet technologies, and the new generation of mobile technologies, to provide sustainable electronic solutions, where security barriers and trust related to the use of public networks can be discussed. The identification of requirements for security services and the cost effective and the profitable aspect of this platform will ensure the provision of highly innovative services.
The Euro-African Hub will operate in a first phase from Geneva, in the highly protected buildings of WISeKey. The subsequent transfer to Malaga will take place once the on-site infrastructure is fully operational. This innovative system will combine multiple physical and electronic security systems utilizing PKI solutions within a “zero risk” secure environment, thanks to the extensive use of VPN (private data network) systems.
The global growth of the Internet is leading the world of business in unimaginable directions. Maintaining data privacy and confidentiality is a huge cost for companies, and the greater the geographic scope, the more complex and expensive are its communications.
"This initiative is an evolution of the agreement signed during the TELECOM'99 ITU in Geneva in November 1999, based on a partnership between WISeKey and the ITU to establish certification authorities in developing countries. Thanks to OISTE and WISeKey, 198 member countries of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) understand the need for a global PKI structure under a shared common ROOT as it has been developed for OISTE and operated by WISeKey," said Philippe Doubre, president of OISTE, (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/e-strategy/ecdc/ra/introduction.html)"
"WISeKey is currently mobilizing the public and private sectors in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to support the deployment of NETeID, a comprehensive system of electronic payment through Internet-based digital identification. It is hoped that the Hub of Malaga Valley can also join this ambitious project," said Carlos Moreira.
"The creation of a Euro-African Hub will give a clear and effective answer to all cooperation activities between African and European countries. Technology will allow us to build that sort of bridges that will contribute to the development of Africa by bringing knowledge to people, and thus by an initiative leaded also by Civil Society, where the Asociacion de Usuarios de Internet (AUI) is proud of being a protagonist in this project," affirmed Miguel Perez Subias, President of AUI and promoter of the HUB during the Malaga Valley meeting.
OISTE will help the government of Malaga become the new Euro-African Hub, with the aim of optimizing economic-social-cultural relations between Europe and Africa. This will be accomplished using the infrastructure of the Technology Park of Malaga and Malaga Valley and its unique geopolitical location. The project will be financed by the private sector, the European Union (EU) and the Spanish government.
Spain is eager to increase support to its continental neighbour, and the establishment of a Euro-African Hub is a logical and essential step. The Hub will become both a super-platform for optimizing commercial, technological and cultural links between the European Union and Africa, and also meeting-point and a place for research and study. Its location in Malaga is the work of the International Organization for the Security of Electronic Transactions (OISTE), the provincial government and the local business sector. The Hub is a natural step following the significant investments already deployed to convert Malaga into a leader of Euro-African initiatives. The provincial government of Malaga, with the help of Madrid and Brussels, has the firm objective to instantiate this new Hub as one of the major superhighways of Information Technology and Worldwide Communications (ICT).
To make the most of the potential of this project, the signatories intend to transform Malaga with this important technological Hub, which includes Internet technologies, and the new generation of mobile technologies, to provide sustainable electronic solutions, where security barriers and trust related to the use of public networks can be discussed. The identification of requirements for security services and the cost effective and the profitable aspect of this platform will ensure the provision of highly innovative services.
The Euro-African Hub will operate in a first phase from Geneva, in the highly protected buildings of WISeKey. The subsequent transfer to Malaga will take place once the on-site infrastructure is fully operational. This innovative system will combine multiple physical and electronic security systems utilizing PKI solutions within a “zero risk” secure environment, thanks to the extensive use of VPN (private data network) systems.
The global growth of the Internet is leading the world of business in unimaginable directions. Maintaining data privacy and confidentiality is a huge cost for companies, and the greater the geographic scope, the more complex and expensive are its communications.
"This initiative is an evolution of the agreement signed during the TELECOM'99 ITU in Geneva in November 1999, based on a partnership between WISeKey and the ITU to establish certification authorities in developing countries. Thanks to OISTE and WISeKey, 198 member countries of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) understand the need for a global PKI structure under a shared common ROOT as it has been developed for OISTE and operated by WISeKey," said Philippe Doubre, president of OISTE, (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/e-strategy/ecdc/ra/introduction.html)"
"WISeKey is currently mobilizing the public and private sectors in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to support the deployment of NETeID, a comprehensive system of electronic payment through Internet-based digital identification. It is hoped that the Hub of Malaga Valley can also join this ambitious project," said Carlos Moreira.
"The creation of a Euro-African Hub will give a clear and effective answer to all cooperation activities between African and European countries. Technology will allow us to build that sort of bridges that will contribute to the development of Africa by bringing knowledge to people, and thus by an initiative leaded also by Civil Society, where the Asociacion de Usuarios de Internet (AUI) is proud of being a protagonist in this project," affirmed Miguel Perez Subias, President of AUI and promoter of the HUB during the Malaga Valley meeting.
Reunión en París para ultimar la Cumbre de Ciudades del Mediterráneo
Reunión en París para ultimar la Cumbre de Ciudades del Mediterráneo
Las gestiones del Club Málaga Valley empiezan a dar sus frutos. El colectivo impulsado por el Ayuntamiento de Málaga ya está trabajando en propuestas que tienen como objetivo atajar la brecha digital, por ejemplo, hacer de Málaga un centro de conexión tecnológica entre Europa y África. Se le denomina 'hub tecnológico', y permitirá aprovechar la posición geoestratégica para establecer en Málaga un nodo o hub de comunicaciones e intercambio de proyectos entre Europa, África e incluso Iberoamérica.
Un paso más será la Cumbre de Málaga de Ciudades y Gobiernos Locales del Mediterráneo, propuesta por el Ayuntamiento en el seno del Fondo Mundial de Solidaridad Digital y que tendrá lugar el próximo mes de octubre en la capital malagueña.
El alcalde de la ciudad, Francisco de la Torre, viaja hoy a París para participar en una reunión preparatoria de este encuentro que, bajo el lema de 'Una financiación innovadora para el espacio digital mediterráneo', tiene como acercar las ciudades del Mediterráneo al Fondo Mundial de Solidaridad Digital. Se hará con un congreso en el que se pretende conseguir la colaboración de ciudades y empresas a fin de colaborar en la financiación y desarrollo de proyectos que permitan disminuir la brecha digital.
Las gestiones del Club Málaga Valley empiezan a dar sus frutos. El colectivo impulsado por el Ayuntamiento de Málaga ya está trabajando en propuestas que tienen como objetivo atajar la brecha digital, por ejemplo, hacer de Málaga un centro de conexión tecnológica entre Europa y África. Se le denomina 'hub tecnológico', y permitirá aprovechar la posición geoestratégica para establecer en Málaga un nodo o hub de comunicaciones e intercambio de proyectos entre Europa, África e incluso Iberoamérica.
Un paso más será la Cumbre de Málaga de Ciudades y Gobiernos Locales del Mediterráneo, propuesta por el Ayuntamiento en el seno del Fondo Mundial de Solidaridad Digital y que tendrá lugar el próximo mes de octubre en la capital malagueña.
El alcalde de la ciudad, Francisco de la Torre, viaja hoy a París para participar en una reunión preparatoria de este encuentro que, bajo el lema de 'Una financiación innovadora para el espacio digital mediterráneo', tiene como acercar las ciudades del Mediterráneo al Fondo Mundial de Solidaridad Digital. Se hará con un congreso en el que se pretende conseguir la colaboración de ciudades y empresas a fin de colaborar en la financiación y desarrollo de proyectos que permitan disminuir la brecha digital.
lundi 14 juillet 2008
Microsoft Corp. e WISeKey ganham projeto Citizen Services Platform (CSP) de governo eletrônico no valor de EUR 17,4 milhões
Microsoft Corp. e WISeKey ganham projeto Citizen Services Platform (CSP) de governo eletrônico no valor de EUR 17,4 milhões
BN003644 10 de julho de 2008 22:07 HORALOCAL
GENEBRA e HOUSTON, 10 de julho /PRNewswire/ -- A Microsoft Corp.
e a WISeKey anunciaram hoje que foram escolhidas pelo Governo Regional
de Biscaia para fornecerem uma e-Government Citizen Services Platform
(Plataforma de Serviços para os Cidadãos de Governo Eletrônico)
abrangente. Este projeto de EUR 17,4 milhões inclui uma avançada
federação de identidades que permite o estabelecimento de portais
personalizados dos cidadãos adaptados às necessidades e interesses de
cada cidadão em um ambiente Web 2.0 real.
Segundo o Sr. José Luis Bilbao, representante-geral de Biscaia,
Espanha, "O BiscayTIK permitirá que os nossos cidadãos se beneficiem
de serviços avançados que empurram a nossa região para o século 21 na
vanguarda do desenvolvimento social e econômico, com a ajuda de
parceiras de primeira classe tais como a Microsoft e WISeKey,
totalmente dedicadas em se unir a nós no desenvolvimento do nosso
centro de tecnologia de classe mundial".
"A Microsoft reconheceu há muito tempo a responsabilidade de
proporcionar acesso à tecnologia de várias formas que ajudam as
pessoas a realizar todo o seu potencial", disse Michel Van der Bel,
vice-presidente do Setor Público da Microsoft International. "Estamos
trabalhando estreitamente com parceiras como a WISeKey e governos de
todo o mundo para promovermos as questões de política de tecnologia e
para fornecermos soluções de tecnologia que atendam as necessidades
de TI específicas de governos, educadores e organizações sem fins
lucrativos".
"A longa experiência da WISeKey garantindo serviços de governo
eletrônico e a sua inigualável Trust Platform (Plataforma de
Confiança) e capacidade de portabilidade de identidade são fatores
importantes para a implementação de CSPs em todo o mundo", disse
Carlos Moreira, fundador e CEO da WISeKey. A WISeKey possui um grande
centro de desenvolvimento em Biscaia, recruta experts locais e usará
este local como um centro líder de excelência.
Parte da solução a ser fornecida pela WISeKey é um sistema de
validação semântica de próxima geração que alavanca as
funcionalidades Web 2.0 e as interações Web 3.0.
Artigo completo no http://www.wisekey.com/csp/biscaytik.htm
BN003644 10 de julho de 2008 22:07 HORALOCAL
GENEBRA e HOUSTON, 10 de julho /PRNewswire/ -- A Microsoft Corp.
e a WISeKey anunciaram hoje que foram escolhidas pelo Governo Regional
de Biscaia para fornecerem uma e-Government Citizen Services Platform
(Plataforma de Serviços para os Cidadãos de Governo Eletrônico)
abrangente. Este projeto de EUR 17,4 milhões inclui uma avançada
federação de identidades que permite o estabelecimento de portais
personalizados dos cidadãos adaptados às necessidades e interesses de
cada cidadão em um ambiente Web 2.0 real.
Segundo o Sr. José Luis Bilbao, representante-geral de Biscaia,
Espanha, "O BiscayTIK permitirá que os nossos cidadãos se beneficiem
de serviços avançados que empurram a nossa região para o século 21 na
vanguarda do desenvolvimento social e econômico, com a ajuda de
parceiras de primeira classe tais como a Microsoft e WISeKey,
totalmente dedicadas em se unir a nós no desenvolvimento do nosso
centro de tecnologia de classe mundial".
"A Microsoft reconheceu há muito tempo a responsabilidade de
proporcionar acesso à tecnologia de várias formas que ajudam as
pessoas a realizar todo o seu potencial", disse Michel Van der Bel,
vice-presidente do Setor Público da Microsoft International. "Estamos
trabalhando estreitamente com parceiras como a WISeKey e governos de
todo o mundo para promovermos as questões de política de tecnologia e
para fornecermos soluções de tecnologia que atendam as necessidades
de TI específicas de governos, educadores e organizações sem fins
lucrativos".
"A longa experiência da WISeKey garantindo serviços de governo
eletrônico e a sua inigualável Trust Platform (Plataforma de
Confiança) e capacidade de portabilidade de identidade são fatores
importantes para a implementação de CSPs em todo o mundo", disse
Carlos Moreira, fundador e CEO da WISeKey. A WISeKey possui um grande
centro de desenvolvimento em Biscaia, recruta experts locais e usará
este local como um centro líder de excelência.
Parte da solução a ser fornecida pela WISeKey é um sistema de
validação semântica de próxima geração que alavanca as
funcionalidades Web 2.0 e as interações Web 3.0.
Artigo completo no http://www.wisekey.com/csp/biscaytik.htm
Microsoft Corp und WISeKey erhalten Zuschlag über 17,4 Mio. EUR E-Government Citizen Services Platform (CSP) Projekt =
Microsoft Corp und WISeKey erhalten Zuschlag über 17,4 Mio. EUR E-Government Citizen Services Platform (CSP) Projekt
Genf, Schweiz, und Houston, USA (ots) -
Microsoft Corp. und WISeKey ließen heute verlautbaren, dass sie
von der Regionalregierung der spanischen Provinz Bizcaia den
Zuschlag für die Bereitstellung einer umfassenden E-Government
Citizen Services Platform für besseren Bürgerservice erhalten
haben. Das Projekt mit einem Budget von 17,4 Mio. EUR beinhaltet
eine führende hochmoderne Identity Federation (eine Architektur,
durch die Unternehmen und Einrichtungen mit Hilfe von digitalen
Identitäten Informationen untereinander austauschen und sicheren
Zugriff auf die jeweiligen Partnersysteme gewähren), welche die
Errichtung maßgeschneiderter Bürgerportale ermöglicht, die auf die
Bedürfnisse und Interessen jedes Bürgers in einer realen
Web-2.0-Umgebung ausgerichtet sind.
José Luis Bilbao, Generalabgeordneter für die Provinz Bizkaia,
Spanien, dazu: "BiscayTIK wird unsere Bürger in die Lage versetzen,
von führenden, hochmodernen Dienstleistungen zu profitieren, die
unsere Region an vorderster Front der sozialen und ökonomischen
Entwicklung ins 21. Jahrhundert führen. Dabei greifen wir auf die
Unterstützung von erstklassigen Partnern wie Microsoft und WISeKey
zurück, die sich bei der Entwicklung unseres weltweit erstrangigen
Technologiezentrums voll für uns engagieren."
Microsoft hat seit langem die Verantwortung erkannt, Zugriff auf
Technologien in einer Weise zu ermöglichen, die Menschen hilft, ihr
volles Potenzial zu entfalten," erklärte Michel Van der Bel, Vice
President des Bereichs Public Sector von Microsoft International.
"Zusammen mit Partnern wie WISeKey arbeiten wir eng mit Behörden
weltweit an der Lösung technologiestrategischer Probleme zusammen
und stellen technische Lösungen bereit, die die IT-Bedürfnisse von
Behörden, Bildungseinrichtungen und gemeinnützigen Einrichtungen
erfüllen.
"WISeKeys langzeitige Erfahrung bei der Bereitstellung von E-
Government-Diensten und der einzigartigen Trust Platform und ID-
Portability-Kapazitäten des Unternehmens sind eine wichtige
Voraussetzung für die Einführung der CSP rund um den Globus," so
Carlos Moreira, Gründer und CEO von WISeKey. WISeKey verfügt über
ein großes Entwicklungszentrum in Bizkaia, stellt lokale Experten
ein und nutzt diesen Standort als ein führendes Kompetenzzentrum.
Im Rahmen der von WISeKey bereitzustellenden Lösung ist ein
semantisches Validierungssystem einer neuen Generation vorgesehen,
das Web-2.0-Funktionen und Web-3.0-Interaktionen einsetzt.
Genf, Schweiz, und Houston, USA (ots) -
Microsoft Corp. und WISeKey ließen heute verlautbaren, dass sie
von der Regionalregierung der spanischen Provinz Bizcaia den
Zuschlag für die Bereitstellung einer umfassenden E-Government
Citizen Services Platform für besseren Bürgerservice erhalten
haben. Das Projekt mit einem Budget von 17,4 Mio. EUR beinhaltet
eine führende hochmoderne Identity Federation (eine Architektur,
durch die Unternehmen und Einrichtungen mit Hilfe von digitalen
Identitäten Informationen untereinander austauschen und sicheren
Zugriff auf die jeweiligen Partnersysteme gewähren), welche die
Errichtung maßgeschneiderter Bürgerportale ermöglicht, die auf die
Bedürfnisse und Interessen jedes Bürgers in einer realen
Web-2.0-Umgebung ausgerichtet sind.
José Luis Bilbao, Generalabgeordneter für die Provinz Bizkaia,
Spanien, dazu: "BiscayTIK wird unsere Bürger in die Lage versetzen,
von führenden, hochmodernen Dienstleistungen zu profitieren, die
unsere Region an vorderster Front der sozialen und ökonomischen
Entwicklung ins 21. Jahrhundert führen. Dabei greifen wir auf die
Unterstützung von erstklassigen Partnern wie Microsoft und WISeKey
zurück, die sich bei der Entwicklung unseres weltweit erstrangigen
Technologiezentrums voll für uns engagieren."
Microsoft hat seit langem die Verantwortung erkannt, Zugriff auf
Technologien in einer Weise zu ermöglichen, die Menschen hilft, ihr
volles Potenzial zu entfalten," erklärte Michel Van der Bel, Vice
President des Bereichs Public Sector von Microsoft International.
"Zusammen mit Partnern wie WISeKey arbeiten wir eng mit Behörden
weltweit an der Lösung technologiestrategischer Probleme zusammen
und stellen technische Lösungen bereit, die die IT-Bedürfnisse von
Behörden, Bildungseinrichtungen und gemeinnützigen Einrichtungen
erfüllen.
"WISeKeys langzeitige Erfahrung bei der Bereitstellung von E-
Government-Diensten und der einzigartigen Trust Platform und ID-
Portability-Kapazitäten des Unternehmens sind eine wichtige
Voraussetzung für die Einführung der CSP rund um den Globus," so
Carlos Moreira, Gründer und CEO von WISeKey. WISeKey verfügt über
ein großes Entwicklungszentrum in Bizkaia, stellt lokale Experten
ein und nutzt diesen Standort als ein führendes Kompetenzzentrum.
Im Rahmen der von WISeKey bereitzustellenden Lösung ist ein
semantisches Validierungssystem einer neuen Generation vorgesehen,
das Web-2.0-Funktionen und Web-3.0-Interaktionen einsetzt.
Microsoft Corp et WISeKey remportent un projet de plate-forme de services d'administration en ligne destinés aux citoyens d'une valeur de 17,4 million
Microsoft Corp et WISeKey remportent un projet de plate-forme de services d'administration en ligne destinés aux citoyens d'une valeur de 17,4 million
lun 14 jui, 7h35
GENEVE et HOUSTON, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT - actualité) et WISeKey ont annoncé aujourd'hui qu'ils ont été retenus par le gouvernement régional de Biscaye pour la fourniture d'une plate-forme complète de services d'administration en ligne destinés aux citoyens. Ce projet d'une valeur de 17,4 millions d'euros prévoit un système de pointe de gestion et de fédération des identités qui permettra la création de portails adaptés aux besoins et aux intérêts de chaque citoyen dans un environnement réel Web 2.0.
Selon José Luis Bilbao, député général de Biscaye, Espagne, <>.
Microsoft a longtemps reconnu la nécessité de permettre aux citoyens d'accéder aux technologies de façon à ce qu'ils puissent exploiter pleinement leur potentiel>>, a déclaré Michel Van der Bel, vice-président du secteur public chez Microsoft International. <>
<>, a déclaré Carlos Moreira, fondateur et PDG de WISeKey. WISeKey dispose d'un important centre de développement à Biscaye, pour lequel il recrute des spécialistes locaux, et utilise cet endroit comme centre d'excellence de pointe.
La solution fournie par WISeKey consistera en partie en un système de validation sémantique de nouvelle génération qui exploitera les fonctionnalités Web 2.0 et les interactions Web 3.0.
L'article peut être consulté dans son intégralité sur le site: http://www.wisekey.com/csp/biscaytik.htm
lun 14 jui, 7h35
GENEVE et HOUSTON, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT - actualité) et WISeKey ont annoncé aujourd'hui qu'ils ont été retenus par le gouvernement régional de Biscaye pour la fourniture d'une plate-forme complète de services d'administration en ligne destinés aux citoyens. Ce projet d'une valeur de 17,4 millions d'euros prévoit un système de pointe de gestion et de fédération des identités qui permettra la création de portails adaptés aux besoins et aux intérêts de chaque citoyen dans un environnement réel Web 2.0.
Selon José Luis Bilbao, député général de Biscaye, Espagne, <>.
Microsoft a longtemps reconnu la nécessité de permettre aux citoyens d'accéder aux technologies de façon à ce qu'ils puissent exploiter pleinement leur potentiel>>, a déclaré Michel Van der Bel, vice-président du secteur public chez Microsoft International. <>
<>, a déclaré Carlos Moreira, fondateur et PDG de WISeKey. WISeKey dispose d'un important centre de développement à Biscaye, pour lequel il recrute des spécialistes locaux, et utilise cet endroit comme centre d'excellence de pointe.
La solution fournie par WISeKey consistera en partie en un système de validation sémantique de nouvelle génération qui exploitera les fonctionnalités Web 2.0 et les interactions Web 3.0.
L'article peut être consulté dans son intégralité sur le site: http://www.wisekey.com/csp/biscaytik.htm
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