Microsoft, Accenture Team Up On Blockchain-based Digital ID Network (reuters.com)

Accenture and Microsoft 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. From a report: 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.

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Deer God

[NettiWelho]

Why on earth would you buy _anything_ at all from accidenture? I mean microsoft royally sucks but atleast their products work to a degree, usually.

With accidenture you might as well be shoveling money to a furnace.

Complete lack of trust.

[HornWumpus]

I can't think of two companies I'd trust less.

So this is truly a test: Can strong enough cryptography overcome complete lack of confidence in counterparties.