Geneva, Switzerland March 02, 2025 –(PR.com)– The Authenticity Institute, Inc., developer of the Authenticity™ Infrastructure, announces a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the City of Osmio, the certification authority and governance body of the Authenticity Infrastructure. The celebration will highlight the origin of Osmio’s duly constituted public authority (DCPA), which is essential for any system purporting trust in online identities.
The World e-Trust Initiative had been a bold attempt by the International Telecommunication Union, a unit of the United Nations, to bring accountability to the digital world. Built on public key infrastructure technology, the World e-Trust Initiative would enable businesses and individuals in the developing world to have a means to trust the identities and practices of trading partners around the globe.
In 2004, after a few years of development, the World e-Trust Initiative was presented to the ITU’s member state representatives. It was not well received, having been perceived as a threat to the national sovereignty of the member states of the ITU. The member state representatives voted to direct the leadership of the World e-Trust Initiative to discontinue the project.
Saving a Great Idea
Those leaders felt that the Initiative’s goals were important, and so they approached Wes Kussmaul, a member of the High Level Experts Group of the ITU’s Global Cybersecurity Agenda and a contributor to the World e-Trust Initiative, if he would consider creating a new version of the Initiative that would be independent of the ITU but which would inherit its authority from the ITU’s …
