And so he will introduce himself to more in detail. And what the identity, his talks about your mobile identity. Blockchain aint no Swiss army knife. So probably blockchain won't solve every single problem in the world with that. Welcome.
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Ahead. Thank you very much heaven. Nice evening. I'm the one guy and two more that keep you from dinner. So I'll speed up. If I can. Austrian state printing house starts look at a, probably very unusual company to present at this conference.
And it's my first time here, but I can tell you this it's a company that changed a lot and it did not only change its logo over time. We're a 214 year old company and we provide identity always in the appropriate form factor, basically. So in early days, when you wanted to leave the castle, you would have to have a letter of kind of recommendation to be able to come back to the castle nowadays, it's the passport. And in the last years, the passport with chip and fingerprints on them, and we believe identity will of course, in the future be on the smartphone.
So this is part of our main business. We still do. We're still a printing house. And if you like steampunk optics, well, we still have it just pass by and we will show you, this is actual machinery. We're still working on because printing securely printing something is also piece of art, but the company changed, and this is Ava from our it department.
We, our estate printing house, but we are programming and we have a lot of programmers in, in, in our facilities because the company changed a lot. So we have clients in more than 60 countries right now, but I would take, would like to start with a look at the status quo of the digital evolution and the founder, interesting article in Harvard business review that chose the digital evolution index and place this countries on this digital evolution index. So we have under the X axis rate of change in digital evolution and on the Y axis, how the country scored in some of these points.
And well, most of the countries that are connected to this conference basically stall out at some time. So we're right in the middle at some, but, but more of them moving to the stall out session part of the diagram.
So we're not at the forefront and that's difficult for, for at least it was for me, difficult to, to, I think one of the reasons, not the only reason, but still a very important reason is that 81% of security incidents involves, involve VCO stole and passwords. So the password is a big barrier in for us to, to overcome.
And right now, these old printed passports still are the only global high level ID. That's really global. And as a company producing and living of producing passports, we find that terrible. So we came up with an idea when we checked all the it systems, especially ERD systems throughout Europe. And one of our ideas was we want to combine two things. We want to combine digital and physical identities because everybody knows how to help that driving license. You know how to handle your vehicle registration, but combining these things in one product, it might give us a competitive advantage.
Overall, the most of the failure, the systems, except for Estonia.
And we did exactly that. We combined that into one product right now, everything is on a smartphone and that's not of any news to you and, and the guys here, but especially high security documents like driver's licenses, ID documents, regular registrations. They never are on the smartphone because everybody says the smartphone is the most insecure place. Why would you put there our high security documents? But that's exactly what we did. And these are the five pillars we used to do it.
We created an online system, so we don't store any data on the smartphone except for offline cases when you need it. But we use only current data. We go to the database or other systems. Every time you retract information, or you wanna show information about yourself or your driver's license on your smartphone. We built a technology agnostic system. We did not wanna hang in just only on NFC or something, or to be dependent also on secure elements.
We want to build easy reach into the system. It's very secure.
And of course, as we have a name to lose as the Austin state printing house quality of, of authentication must be very high. So the basic system is we want to provide, and we think it's necessary to provide the user with a, with a front end and only one front end from your country, from your state, from your home country. It would be a problem to have high level identities and two, three wallets that give different kinds of assurances, different kinds of user interface to the, to the, to the customer. So we need an ID platform in the, in, in back of this identity, front end.
And in the back of that, we can have centralized databases, federated systems, self-serve it systems or even systems like the mobile connect system from GSMA.
Two slides for identification support has been mentioned sometimes on the conference. We think video identification is a good means of operation. It can be done securely, but it's all at the beginning point, it has to be the starting point with an AI based online onboarding system in mind. So this is the first step, but we have to integrate AI and more and more sensors and information into the online onboarding system.
We call it by the we, my identity check. So we think with these five pillars, I mentioned before, we have the possibility to bring identity onto the smartphone and combining and securing digital and physical world in one app basically. And we call the system Mia, it's my identity app. And I will just show you that's the basic design. We strapped everything out of it. We had already in it. So it's very basic.
It's built around the user.
It's just built for the user and the user only because we did not wanna do anything complex in it complex in the background, but not complex for the, for the user. So it's a very simple process. You start the app, you link to another personal system and you approve the data you're willing to give to the other side. The other system we choose to represent cards also in, in the colors, people are used to see them like driver's licenses in Europe pink. So we made them pink. So we can really take the user from his point of view and where he's standing now and transfer these levels of trust.
He has through his driver's licenses and his documents also to the smartphone. And of course we built an ERD system into that too. It's all based on known technologies and there are a lot of different bonuses and plus points for governments. Please talk to me after, after the talk, because it's too many of them to, to mention all of them in that short amount of time and also for the users, it's, it's a big, big change. So what in our minds is the key of this system.
Well, for me, it's building and continuously adapting the ecosystem because that's not a product you build once and then advance for 10 years. We have to continuously adapt and perfect the system and adopt it to the changing environmental conditions around it.
And we have some keywords on, on, on this slide and I want to take one of these keywords out and, and focus on that. That's the second one on the right side, the exponential technologies, because I believe our future is exponential. And the problem with that is that our brains don't work with exponential.
They are used to think in linear terms and exponential developments like they're happening in all the new technology areas that are coming up, give us a problem in the two problem areas. Specifically first, there is a deceptive part. We think that new technology it's never going to work. It's too slow. It's not coming up. It's not coming to the market.
It's, we're disappointed. I'm still disappointed with 3d printers. It was supposed to be the big, big change, but I don't have one at home. And usually I get every gadget that's possible to get, but I should probably consider buy one soon, because if you don't think on the linear level, but on the exponential level, you really could avoid the chaos you're probably going to get in, but you're thinking with, and you're possibly to have the amazement of the exponential results just to put it on a different scale.
The difference is enormous.
If you think linear or exponential and it's de deceptive and disruptive at the same time.
So some areas of exponential development and there's a lot of them, and there are so many interesting talks you could give just from these, from these points. The latest organizations is probably the biggest problem, and that will touch on that point. One more time in the presentation, especially when it's our governmental organizations, because organizations are within the exponential technology driven parts, the slowest development, especially our governmental organizations are very slow.
And for a company that lives off contracts from a government, that's a problem for us. And I think it might be for many people in the ID area. So let me touch on one of these exponential technology markets. That's biometric. So it's exploding over the time. There were some incredible developments over the last years, face ID from apple. Apple basically played out. I would say all the biometrics industry because they put some amazing technology that is far better, that most of the equipment you could buy before into every smartphone they built right now.
And it's truly amazing.
And we should, should be happy to be able to use it in, in the future exponential technology. Of course, AI, you can talk about AI without talking about Steve Hawkins, who is no longer with us.
He said, success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. So he was not exactly stupid and he was not afraid of many things, but he was quite scared about AI. And I think that should give us to think another guy that's not afraid of too many things.
Hope, not just the biological boot loader for digital super intelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable
In my field of, of experience. We have a lot to do with, with faces because we'll put faces in every passport, in every driver's license, in every chip, in every passport. So let me give you an early warning. Maybe some of you have already heard that of facial recognition and, and eye in combination when what's, what's going to be possible.
There was a study from MRT in October last year that found out that with three pictures of any person, you could determine the sex sexual orientation of the person by probability of over 70% of relief. That was a big thing for me to read because to me, the external vision of me, or of any person should not reveal a sexual orientation, but it is. And one of the authors of the study said, faces contain much more information about sexual orientation than can be perceived and interpreted by the human brain, but by a digital brain.
And think of the implications of that.
Every camera on the street are there. It's not only seeing you determining you or at least determining there's a person, but could also determine your sex, sexual orientation, at least probably many things, more exponential technologies. That will be very brief on that quantum computers.
Of course, that's a big problem. And we say, we can have post quantum cryptography, and I'm not so sure about that because all my it guys and all the experts I visit, they just tell me yeah, with 20 qubits not possible, but what if it's not 20 qubits? IBM put 20 qubits into the cloud in December last year. What if it's 2000 qubits in four years and everything we write do right now focuses and, and relies on PPI continuous identification. Most of you know that there was a project from Google that was called Abacus is now called the trust API.
There's a change from identification, identifying persons at only several points in time, but continuously authenticate and seeing them, which is a big change in the paradigm of how to handle identification or you would have to handle identification. Very interesting project did not hear anything about that in the last two years. And finally, I wanna touch on, on one more. I think also exponential that's blockchain.
We think a lot about the blockchain and this conference in my mind was a big step on answering the question, whether it's happening or not, because everything here is about blockchain and, and, and S S I D. And I like that a lot because we also went with sovereign. We like the platform, and we are also building this platform as one of the sources, data sources for our M system, how to conquer blockchain for ID while I think there are some more problematic and some less problematic points.
I think most of them are green.
I think there's a problem with the governments because governments are too slow to grasp the idea of, of, of a blockchain. And they're very slow in implementing laws and they would have to stand to these laws and, and, and stand behind these laws if they implement. And the problem also with technology is that is very young. And that's why I have a orange point of trust. There's usually a lot of trust because yes, it's mathematical improvement.
It's sure, but frankly, I think we have to add five more things. One of them is at T T time and testing time and testing time and testing. We have to test these blockchain systems.
Well, a lot, we have to add trust, but not only on a mathematical basis, but by earning that by bringing out systems to the real world.
And so, so many presentations here that we're fantastic until the point. Almost everybody told me, well, it's not life yet, but we are going to be there soon. And we are just testing and it's coming out soon. Really. We have to get projects out into the wild. We have to put the user back in the center and only in the center because we have to help him to manage these complex tasks. Managing a private key is nothing.
My mother, my grand, even my daughter or my wife would like to do. They just wanna have help and wanna be sure it works. And we have to fail early. And I think in this case also quietly, because trust is a very fragile good. And we don't have to destroy that.
And final slide. Yeah.
Oh, almost final slide. I think we're with blockchain right here at the sweeping, at the tipping point for that technology to take off and how not to conquer blockchain for ad. I don't know. Probably many of you saw this over the last days. Everybody who used PGP, well, your emails, you encrypted with PGP now can be read by everybody and that should not happen.
Well, at least here it happened after I think 30 years with the blockchain systems. This should probably hopefully not happen in the first years. Thank you very much.
Thank you. So thank you very much. And maybe to the last slide, my colleague Alexei published blog post on this yesterday regarding all this panic mode thing.
And, you know, to be honest, I think it's much worse than some effected implementations and it's not a protocol it's implementation. Yeah. That we have probably 98% or 99, or even more percent of totally unencrypted males. So what is the bigger problem in reality? But some researchers wanted to get a little bit of publicity here. That's I think the fact behind that, okay. Let's look at the questions. I think we have two here and, and the three right now, so we probably can't pick all of them, but so I think the first one is a good one.
So if we have a digital E D app, can we use it instead of our passport at the border control?
Not right now, but we will be able to do that. There's the iCare or the international civil aviation organization that is right now talking about having different form factors and even leaving the, even have the possibility to leave the passport at home and travel without any token.
But it, one of the possible tokens could also be a smartphone.
Oh, that would be cool. I believe. I hope so.
Yeah.
So thank you very much again, for that insightful present.
