blockchain big brother
Microsoft has announced that it is collaborating with Blockstack Labs, ConsenSys and developers across the globe on an open source, self-sovereign, blockchain-based identity system that allows people, products, apps and services to interoperate across blockchains, cloud providers and organizations.
The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals include giving everyone a legal identity by 2030. As a first step, the U.N. wants to develop scalable identity systems by 2020. The inaugural "ID2020 Summit ‒ Harnessing Digital Identity for the Global Community," held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on May 20, brought together policymakers and technology companies to develop an action plan.
“While we don’t profess to have solutions to these overwhelming problems today, we can start where the open source community is best: collaboration,” said Yorke Rhodes III, blockchain business strategist at Microsoft. “To progress toward these goals, we have been working with partners to address identity using the self-owned or self-sovereign qualities of blockchain technology.”
There was an article in Redmond magazine where the went over some of this.
I believe they are also getting together with IBM to use the blockchain in business applications.
Very cutting edge of them. I think it's part of their strategy for Azure to provide blockchain as a service.
https://redmondmag.com/blogs/the-schwartz-report/2016/06/blockchain-as-a-service.aspx
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