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WISeKey announces at the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2010 in Cartagena, Colombia an agreement to deploy intelligent eCards for 350,000 citizens

Geneva, Rio and Cartagena, Colombia (ots)

WISeKey, world leader
in solutions designed to secure electronic transactions and cloud 
computing, reinforces with this deal its presence in Latin America 
with the signing of an agreement with a group of Brazilian companies 
NexCardSolutions, Etica Soluções em TI and Brasilinvest to deploy a 
project with the name *Cartão Portal*. It consists of an Intelligent 
eCard simulating the functions of a traditional credit card but 
reinforced with latest technologies developed by WISeKey and the 
Brazilian consortium. These include a dual cryptographic 
microprocessor, robust encryption, strong authentication and digital 
identification on the eCard, increasing the functionality, security 
and confidentiality of the user.
The Cartão Portal eCard enables multiple functions such as access 
to medical services and files, credit and debit functionalities, 
access control functions to access movie theaters, stadiums, shows, 
events. It can additionally be used to access public transportation 
systems.
The confidential data exchanges involved in these services 
including the financial data collected by the transactional data are 
stored in "trusted private clouds" at city level which are securely 
accessed via the Web and Mobiles: The Trusted Private Cloud approach,
which has now become a trend in the IT industry, is something WISeKey
has been working on for the last 10 years in different countries 
around the world, with the first e-Government Cloud service 
implemented by the Geneva Government in cooperation with WISeKey and 
HP in 2000 allowing citizens to vote online securely. WISeKey 
provides the logical and mathematical processes and tools allowing 
these types of citizen services to secure the confidentiality, 
integrity and anonymity of the information stored in these private 
clouds.
The original idea to develop *Cartão Portal started from the needs
of Uberaba, a city in Southeast Brazil with around 350,000 citizens. 
This city in the state of Minas Gerais carries many characteristics 
of similar councils in Latin America -- an agro-industrial hub, low- 
tech enterprises, but also fierce challenges in areas such as public 
sanitation and housing.
"We were looking for a dynamic solution that could integrate the 
multiple services into a citizen platform" mentioned Anderson Adauto 
Pereira, Mayor of Uberaba. "This new online tool provides the 
required dignity and social satisfaction via a technology of the 21 
century", he added.
For Marcello Hallake, International Director of CDI (Centro para a
Democratização da Informática), NGO active in dozens of countries, 
this is "just the type of project required for reinforcing the 
digital citizenship. It converts complex technologies into an 
integrated simple use device. This is the right reference for other 
cities in Latin America".
"With the increased global interest towards Brazil thanks to the 
FIFA World Cup 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016, this is a 
spectacular solution for visitors to the country. The applications 
for the tourism sector are enormous", said Ricardo Albin, from the 
Cultural Council of Rio de Janeiro.
Mario Garnero, Chairman of Brasilinvest and Forum das Americas 
eyes the Cartão Portal as "yet another bright example on how to 
empower the notion of e-citizenship throughout Latin America. Making 
life easier is the right way to spread technology use wide in our 
region "
Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISekey Worldwide asserted that
"this first Cartão Portal project Integrates fully into the strategy 
of the company for Latin America by deploying sophisticated 
technologies that facilitate services and functionalities to the 
citizens whilst allowing them to maintain the control of their 
identities and cloud services at local level."
Moreira mentioned that the increasing presence of WISeKey in the 
LATAM region would be strongly oriented towards the establishment of 
technology transactional hubs, which provide the required platform 
for industrial development of technologies, local R&D and development
of applications for enterprises, governments and individuals. WISeKey
already established WISeKey Brazil with BrasilInvest and is now 
expanding in many other countries in the region.
Recognized as a *Global Growth Company* by the World Economic 
Forum, WISeKey has also attracted the interest of MIT (*Massachusetts
Institute of Technology*), the world mecca for research and 
technological entrepreneurship.
Moreira will share his vision and plans for WISeKey towards Latin 
America in an address to a selected audience of over 500 
entrepreneurs and members of the science community in New England 
during the traditional *MIT Latin Conference* to be held late April 
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Contact:

Marcos Troyjo
CEO WISeKey Brazil
Phone: +41/22/929'57'57
E-Mail: mtroyjo@windows.com

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