What is it?
- Authentiverse is a digital continent being developed right now, built upon a revolutionary — and common-sense — new infrastructure called Authenticity™.
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Authentiverse is an environment where identifiable, REAL people are responsible for and accountable for objects and actions — everything from documents, videos, and chat rooms to blockchains, code, and AI.
- Authentiverse is a place where communities can be built by anyone who wants to gather members in a secure space where everyone is known and accountable.
- Authentiverse is where your personal information is owned by you
— and available to others under your license and NDA.
What it's NOT
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Authentiverse is NOT virtual reality.
- Authentiverse is NOT another attempt at security and privacy using methods that don't work – Catch-The-Bad-Guys (CTBG) – because those methods ignore the foundational missing element in today's information infrastructure: the personal accountability of an Accountability-Based Environment (ABE).
WHY Authentiverse?
Authentiverse addresses our two major epidemics:
Criminal activity rooted in INauthenticity
Breaches, fraud, theft, phishing, ransomware, human trafficking, etc. etc.
Silibandia incursion into our online life
Manipulation, theft, and tracking of personal information and online activity.
What's different about Authentiverse?
The first thing to know about Authentiverse — the thing enables
it to break free from the treadmill of hope and disappointment as each new security/privacy "solution" comes
and goes while breaches, fraud, theft, and ransomware rage on — is this:
Rather than chasing the next new-new thing on the shifting and ineffective ("catch the bad guys") frontier of cybersecurity, Authentiverse calls upon
OLD PROVEN TECHNOLOGY
and OLD PROVEN METHODS
Old proven TECHNOLOGY
It's the brilliant mathematical "magic" that makes a rock-solid link between a digital identity and a real person, then confirms it every time that person is referenced.
The ability to link an online identity to a human being in the physical world is the foundational bedrock of Authentiverse. It enables that pervasive characteristic of objects and actions in Authentiverse: accountability of real people.
This technology is OLD because it was invented back in the 1970s by the same British intelligence agency where, decades earlier, Alan Turing's team shortened World War II by cracking the German Enigma codes.
We call it AC because its full name ("asymmetric cryptography") sounds complicated. In fact, you don't need to know anything about how it works — all you need to know is what it does.
Old proven METHODS
By "old methods" we mean things modeled upon familiar and time-tested
paradigms of the physical world.
These methods are OLD because of their long working history as part of
society — many of them going back centuries.
By adding AC-based technology to these long-established methods, thereby
securing the online identities of real people in today's global "village" of 8 billion,
we can have a new digital world with security, privacy,
and
accountability that
equals — and in some ways surpasses — that of the physical world.
The City of OSMIO The capital of Authentiverse
The City of Osmio is the global source of governance for Authentiverse. It is a non-commercial, non-political, participatory municipality. Osmio provides that critical foundational element that’s been missing in the world of digital identities — duly constituted public authority. Without that, the door is wide open to bad actors who can hide behind false identities and do their work with no accountability. We see the result in the daily harvest of bad news.
Osmio inherited its duly constituted public authority from the World e-Trust Initiative of the ITU — a United Nations agency — when its Municipal Charter was written in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2005. (Osmio is not now affiliated with the ITU.)
Osmio’s form of governance is optimocracy by citizen participation in volunteer commissions. Governance by the governed: Humans in charge.
As the certification authority for Authentiverse, Osmio’s Vital Records Department (VRD) manages the identity records of individuals holding Osmio measurably reliable identity certificates. Other departments manage professional licensing, building codes for online spaces (digital “buildings”), privacy protection, court-ordered disclosures, and other functions of governance.
Authenticity Enterprises that provide Authenticity solutions for the inauthenticity pains in a specific market or industry.
People who understand the problems of inauthenticity that plague the world's information infrastructure and the way Authenticity solves those problems, and who want to play a part in helping others to see those solutions.
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