Selected official statements, declarations, and institutional participation of Https Card — Internet Identity Card Ltd at the United Nations, the OECD, and other international bodies. Participation in international discussions does not imply endorsement or adoption by the institutions mentioned.
Public intervention by Michael Benaudis, President & Founder, at the United Nations Headquarters, New York City, U.S.A.
“73 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and today digital technology has created new threats to Human Rights such as data privacy and identity fraud. Fortunately, digital technology has the power to transform the world and to protect the privacy of all of us.”
Statements submitted to the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the Security of and in the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).
Statement by Michael Benaudis, President & Founder of Https Card — Internet Identity Card Ltd, at the Open-Ended Working Group on Security of and in the use of Information and Communications Technologies, United Nations Headquarters, New York.
Final statement by Https Card — Internet Identity Card Ltd to the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Security of and in the use of Information and Communications Technologies in the context of international security — from 25 to 29 July 2022 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (UNHQ).
Through resolution 73/27, the General Assembly established an Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG). On 2–4 December 2019, Https Card — Internet Identity Card participated as an accredited non-state actor in New York for the intersessional meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG). These discussions on international peace and security in cyberspace were open to non-state actors for the first time in the United Nations' history.
Https Card, represented by its founder Michael Benaudis, contributed comments to the OECD public consultation on the draft Recommendation for Digital Identity Governance. This initiative aims to support the development of secure, user-centric, and globally compatible digital identity systems.
Comments and contributions by Michael Benaudis to the OECD's draft Recommendation for Digital Identity Governance, available on the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) engagement platform.
Following the release of IIC v9.0, its hybrid post-quantum architecture has been submitted for standards discussion, permanent academic archiving, and public policy consultation.
“The Internet Identity Card (IIC) Credential Format: A Self-Contained, Offline-Verifiable Identity Credential with Hybrid Classical and Post-Quantum Signatures” — independent submission to the IETF Datatracker, describing the v9.0 format, its crypto-agile suite registry, and its hybrid verification rule.
Technical Specification, Engineering Specification, Threat Model, and User Guide for IIC v9.0, permanently archived with a Digital Object Identifier and indexed in OpenAIRE.
Contribution to the Commission's targeted consultation on safeguarding the EU's data sovereignty, positioning offline-first, zero-intermediary architecture — illustrated by IIC v9.0's hybrid post-quantum design — as a complement to contractual and jurisdictional data-sovereignty instruments.
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