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Mobile Connect in the Innovation City at MWCS17
Wednesday 7 June, 2017
See below for a list of digital identity demonstrations in the GSMA Innovation City Across the Asia, Mobile Connect is being incorporating into a variety of services. From finance through to customer services, the digital identity solution is demonstrating how it can add a ...
Will Latest Cyber Attack Unite the Digital Community?
Wednesday 17 May, 2017
Although data breaches and cybercrime are increasingly the hallmark of the age we live in, last week’s WannaCry attack has drawn out uniformly strong calls for the wider tech industry to improve security. Affecting more than 150 countries and high profile institutions such ...
Summit Demonstrates Growing Demand for the Various Offerings of Mobile Connect
Friday 5 May, 2017
Industry event reveals how Mobile Connect has evolved well beyond its authentication moorings LONDON — Last week, global leaders in the mobile industry and adjacent sectors convened in London to discuss the increasingly pressing need for an identity solution that meets ...
Trust & Privacy will be Increasingly Important to eID Market
Wednesday 5 April, 2017
‘Cybercrime keeps Climbing’. This was one of the principal findings from PwC’s Global Economic Crime Survey 2016, and a reminder that many businesses are unprepared for -or do not understand- the security threats of the digital age. Surveying various businesses, PwC’s report ...
The Next Phase of Cross-Border Public Services
Thursday 30 March, 2017
With over 3 billion enabled users worldwide and its federated distributed architecture, Mobile Connect is a leading example of a mobile identity and authentication solution for governments, mobile network operators and private sector service providers. Having been designed ...
Mobile Connect’s collaboration with leading brands during MWC17 points to future of ID
Friday 17 March, 2017
Mobile World Congress revealed many ways in which mobile technology is evolving to deliver a new range of digital services. Inside the event’s GSMA Innovation City, we were given a glimpse of how improvements to network speed, coverage and power are helping to connect ...
Restoring Trust in the Digital Age – the Great Debate at MWC Industry Seminar
Thursday 2 March, 2017
The security of customer data has never been more crucial. In our digital world, the risk of fraud has reached unprecedented heights and consumers are increasingly cautious about entrusting organisations with their data credentials. This presents organisations across ...
The Future of Identity – Mobile, Invisible, seamless
Thursday 2 March, 2017
The identity landscape is beginning to evolve at breakneck speed. With new financial legislation set to introduce plethora of commercial opportunities yet potentially create a number of challenges, demand for high-security authentication is growing rapidly across the board. ...
MWC 17: Examining the Mobile Industry’s Digital Identity Solution
Monday 27 February, 2017
Authorisation and integration with emerging technologies are two of Mobile Connect’s advances at this year’s GSMA Innovation City showcase Identity is quickly becoming a priority for the wider digital community; developing new apps and connecting everyday ...
Media Giants Collaborate for Demo of New Music App, Mobile Connect Music
Thursday 23 February, 2017
Three of the most renowned brands in the music industry, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music Group (and their playlist brand, Topsify), have united through Kuack Media Group to provide content for a demo of a new mobile-based music streaming app, Mobile Connect ...
Digital Identity in the GSMA Innovation City
Tuesday 21 February, 2017
See below for a list of digital identity demonstrations in the GSMA Innovation City Across the globe, mobile network operators and digital service providers are incorporating Mobile Connect into their services. Growing interest from the commerce, banking, travel and ...
Digital Community Reaches Consensus on UN’s Identity Goals
Monday 20 February, 2017
Marta Ienco, Head of the Government & Regulatory affairs, Personal Data Analyses of the potential of the global digital economy often conclude that advanced economies have the most to gain from digital technology. For example, the World Economic Forum’s ‘Global ...
Mobile Connect to provide access to UN Sustainable Development Goals App
Friday 3 February, 2017
Mobile Connect will be available for use with the GSMA’s ‘SDG in Action’ mobile app from February 21st as part of a major update ahead of this year’s Mobile World Congress. Users will now be able to log-in to and use the app simply by entering their mobile phone number. Once ...
SIMAlliance Publish SIM Applet Interoperability Guidelines
Friday 27 January, 2017
New guidelines have been released by industry trade association SIMAlliance that aim to simplify the deployment of Mobile Connect. The guidelines, ‘Mobile Connect SIM Applet Interoperability Stepping Stones’, are designed to simplify interoperability of interfaces of the ...
Mobile Connect Government & Policy Expert Named in List of top 100 Identity Leaders
Tuesday 17 January, 2017
The GSMA’s Marta Ienco, Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Personal Data, has been named by identity experts, One World Identity, in their list of top 100 leaders in identity. Published earlier this month, the list identifies the world’s foremost thought leaders ...
2016: The Year Mobile Connect Became Available to a Third of the World’s People
Wednesday 11 January, 2017
Marie Austenaa, VP and Head of Personal Data & Mobile Identity, GSMA One of the most noticeable trends in 2016 was the growing preoccupation with hacking, data breaches and the revaluation of digital identity. Yet throughout the year, one of the potential solutions to ...
Household Credit Sharing App the Victor at Visa Hackathon
Thursday 1 December, 2016
Dubai—When asked to imagine a thriving industry in the Middle East, most of us will immediately think of oil. But in recent years, the region’s economy has diversified, breathing new life into its tech sector. It was a fitting location then for Visa’s Digital Payments ...
Convergence of Digital Identity Policies Will Enable Next Generation Services
Thursday 1 December, 2016
Marta Ienco, Head of the Government & Regulatory affairs, Personal Data That the future of public services is digital is becoming increasingly apparent in Europe and internationally. Italy, for example, has launched its nationwide Public System for Digital Identity ...
The Evolution of Online Banking
Tuesday 15 November, 2016
Marie Austenaa, VP and Head of Personal Data & Mobile Identity Programme at GSMA In April this year, the World Retail Banking Report from Capgemini reported significant improvements for banks’ customer experience. A significant amount of progress can be attributed to the ...
The Relationship Between Blockchain and Digital Identity
Thursday 10 November, 2016
Gautam Hazari, Technical Director, Personal Data, GSMA ‘Identity’ is a word often used to mean subtly different things. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it succinctly as “The fact of being who or what a person or thing is”; ISO29115 prefers the broader “Set of ...