Author Archives for Gary Flood

Could international air travel be the ID killer app?

December 4, 2018 8:31 am Published by Comments Off on Could international air travel be the ID killer app?

Air travel is set to rise to 1.8bn journeys a year by 2030, says WorldReach, which is working with Canada and the Home Office to start us moving to automatic biometric-supported travel


Ubisecure: Let’s apply the lessons from Nordic Digital ID success

December 3, 2018 8:10 am Published by Comments Off on Ubisecure: Let’s apply the lessons from Nordic Digital ID success

We're not behind as we didn't start in the same place, the company's CEO tells delegates at last Thursday's Think Digital Identity For Government 2018 conference in Westminster - but we do need to start convincing people Digital ID just makes their lives easier to get to critical mass


Turns out there is very much ‘life beyond Verify’…

November 30, 2018 8:09 am Published by Comments Off on Turns out there is very much ‘life beyond Verify’…

A highly-successful second Digital Identity conference - the only one that serves the UK public sector - closes its doors, with lively debate about the next stage in growth for the sector as the first shape of a post-GOV.UK Verify landscape emerges


Blockchain could boost global economy by $3 trillion by 2030 – WTO

November 28, 2018 8:14 am Published by Comments Off on Blockchain could boost global economy by $3 trillion by 2030 – WTO

Tech has the potential to "significantly" cut trade costs by increasing transparency and facilitating processes automation, including financial intermediation, exchange rate costs, coordination, and other aspects of global trade, says the group


Digital Identity And The NHS

November 27, 2018 8:45 am Published by Comments Off on Digital Identity And The NHS

How the next generation of NHS Digital Identity Services is working to enable care workers to access vital holistic clinical information on the patients they are treating quickly, simply, securely and at the point of care - while ensuring only legitimate care workers can access patient data


Mvine: why we need a New Consortium for Digital Identity

November 22, 2018 8:40 am Published by Comments Off on Mvine: why we need a New Consortium for Digital Identity

'Our "Digital Identity. For all." campaign seeks to draw attention to the real risk of an inadvertent two-tier system occurring between users with a digital identity and those without'


New board appointed at UK’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics Body

November 21, 2018 8:11 am Published by Comments Off on New board appointed at UK’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics Body

Robert Winston, Dame Patricia Hodgson and Kriti Sharma are among the expert advisers appointed to shape the work of the world’s first so-say AI 'Centre for Ethics and Innovation'


Blockchain racks up a new use case: selling high-end Art

November 19, 2018 8:29 am Published by Comments Off on Blockchain racks up a new use case: selling high-end Art

Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning and many other famous American painters in The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection get sold on in a record $323m transaction - powered by Blockchain