The Government of Seychelles Launches the “SeyID” Project,

The Government of Seychelles Launches the “SeyID” Project, the National Digital Identity Platform Developed by WISeKey

The SeyID platform empowers key initiatives in Seychelles for eGovernment and shall be made accessible for purposes in personal sector, equivalent to eBanking

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Victoria (Seychelles), Geneva (Switzerland) – October 31, 2022 – The Government of Seychelles introduced formally in the present day the launch of the SeyID Platform, developed by WISeKey International Holding (“WISeKey”, SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a number one cybersecurity firm. The challenge delivers a brand new Digital Identity platform, named “SeyID”, that’s linked with totally different nationwide initiatives masking eGovernment, eTourism and eHealth.

In 2014, WISeKey was chosen by the Government of Seychelles as a associate to produce expertise and experience on Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), Digital Signatures and its utilization in digital transactions. PKI and all the derived purposes for authentication, digital signatures and encryption are indisputably the most safe applied sciences to make sure the safety of private identities and paperwork. The Government of Seychelles has been praised internationally for all its efforts in eGovernment and innovation applied sciences; in 2012 it was acknowledged by the United Nations with an Information Communications Technology for eGovernment award, and since then it has been thought-about a benchmark in the area.

With this new challenge, the Government of Seychelles seeks to implement new options and providers for residents, together with new eGovernment providers, to facilitate entry to Digital Identity by way of the use of smartphones and cellular apps. The SeyID platform delivered by WISeKey will embody extra Digital Identity providers for the Seychellois residents, which is able to complement the present National Identity Card with a digital card saved in a cellular app. The Digital Identity challenge can even allow vacationers to create an eTourist ID to entry native digital providers. Seychelles is visited yearly by almost 400,000 vacationers and such providers shall be of nice worth. WISeKey is a key participant in the PKI enviornment and affords a singular mixture of know-how and geo-political neutrality. Based in Switzerland, WISeKey can guarantee the independency of its belief providers, permitting its clients to problem digital identities which can be acknowledged worldwide.

The SeyID challenge is predicated on WISeKey’s WISeID platform for Digital Identity and on-line safety. WISeID is a trusted id service that allows entry to the net and cellular purposes with robust authentication strategies. WISeID helps on-line KYC onboarding, OTP and an modern “hands-free” safe login primarily based on QR-Codes which customers can learn utilizing the “SeyID” cellular utility with out even having to kind any password. Additional safety providers embody digital signature providers for paperwork. WISeID implements requirements equivalent to OpenID Connect and OAUTH2, which can be simply built-in by clients to reinforce the safety of their cloud purposes. WISeID will also be mixed with Microsoft Active Directory, facilitating integration with company purposes. WISeID is predicated on the WISeKey/OISTE Root of Trust and integrates modern blockchain applied sciences to distribute the id attributes and construct federated ecosystems.

The SeyID challenge additionally integrates a cloud signature resolution that allows the customers to digitally signal paperwork and different transactions, simply and with full authorized validity. This will allow a quick advance in the implementation of eGovernment and different makes use of for the personal sector, by successfully dematerializing the processes, eliminating the want of manuscript signatures on paper.

Benjamin Choppy, the Principal Secretary of the Department of Information and Communication Technology in Seychelles mentioned, “The e-ID platform, SeyID, is a fundamental component in the implementation of Seychelles Government Digital Economy Agenda and its coming into operation marks a key milestone achievement.”

“WISeKey is proud to have been awarded by the Government of Seychelles this project to build the National Digital Identity platform, which confirms the potential of the WISeID solution as a solid base to deliver such services,” mentioned Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey.

The SeyID platform is already delivered and in the final phases of integration with eGovernment and personal corporations, equivalent to banking providers. It shall be opened for non-residents in 2023, aiming to suggest new providers for tourism and worldwide business.

About WISeKey

WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a number one world cybersecurity firm at present deploying massive scale digital id ecosystems for folks and objects utilizing Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors safe the pervasive computing shaping in the present day’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an set up base of over 1.5 billion microchips in nearly all IoT sectors (linked automobiles, good cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, good lighting, servers, computer systems, cell phones, crypto tokens and so on.).  WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce an enormous quantity of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), may also help industrial purposes to foretell the failure of their gear earlier than it occurs.

Our expertise is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss primarily based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) offers safe authentication and identification, in each bodily and digital environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a typical belief anchor to make sure the integrity of on-line transactions amongst objects and between objects and folks. For extra info, go to www.wisekey.com.

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This communication expressly or implicitly incorporates sure forward-looking statements regarding WISeKey International Holding Ltd and its business. Such statements contain sure recognized and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different elements, which may trigger the precise outcomes, monetary situation, efficiency or achievements of WISeKey International Holding Ltd to be materially totally different from any future outcomes, efficiency or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. WISeKey International Holding Ltd is offering this communication as of this date and doesn’t undertake to replace any forward-looking statements contained herein consequently of new info, future occasions or in any other case.
This press launch doesn’t represent a proposal to promote, or a solicitation of a proposal to purchase, any securities, and it doesn’t represent an providing prospectus inside the which means of article 652a or article 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations or a list prospectus inside the which means of the itemizing guidelines of the SIX Swiss Exchange. Investors should depend on their very own analysis of WISeKey and its securities, together with the deserves and dangers concerned. Nothing contained herein is, or shall be relied on as, a promise or illustration as to the future efficiency of WISeKey.

The Government of Seychelles Launches the “SeyID” Project, the National Digital Identity Platform Developed by WISeKey

The SeyID platform empowers key initiatives in Seychelles for eGovernment and shall be made accessible for purposes in personal sector, equivalent to eBanking

Video NASDAQ Tower at Times Square https://youtu.be/z2BjqyfMRK0

Victoria (Seychelles), Geneva (Switzerland) – October 31, 2022 – The Government of Seychelles introduced formally in the present day the launch of the SeyID Platform, developed by WISeKey International Holding (“WISeKey”, SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a number one cybersecurity firm. The challenge delivers a brand new Digital Identity platform, named “SeyID”, that’s linked with totally different nationwide initiatives masking eGovernment, eTourism and eHealth.

In 2014, WISeKey was chosen by the Government of Seychelles as a associate to produce expertise and experience on Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), Digital Signatures and its utilization in digital transactions. PKI and all the derived purposes for authentication, digital signatures and encryption are indisputably the most safe applied sciences to make sure the safety of private identities and paperwork. The Government of Seychelles has been praised internationally for all its efforts in eGovernment and innovation applied sciences; in 2012 it was acknowledged by the United Nations with an Information Communications Technology for eGovernment award, and since then it has been thought-about a benchmark in the area.

With this new challenge, the Government of Seychelles seeks to implement new options and providers for residents, together with new eGovernment providers, to facilitate entry to Digital Identity by way of the use of smartphones and cellular apps. The SeyID platform delivered by WISeKey will embody extra Digital Identity providers for the Seychellois residents, which is able to complement the present National Identity Card with a digital card saved in a cellular app. The Digital Identity challenge can even allow vacationers to create an eTourist ID to entry native digital providers. Seychelles is visited yearly by almost 400,000 vacationers and such providers shall be of nice worth. WISeKey is a key participant in the PKI enviornment and affords a singular mixture of know-how and geo-political neutrality. Based in Switzerland, WISeKey can guarantee the independency of its belief providers, permitting its clients to problem digital identities which can be acknowledged worldwide.

The SeyID challenge is predicated on WISeKey’s WISeID platform for Digital Identity and on-line safety. WISeID is a trusted id service that allows entry to the net and cellular purposes with robust authentication strategies. WISeID helps on-line KYC onboarding, OTP and an modern “hands-free” safe login primarily based on QR-Codes which customers can learn utilizing the “SeyID” cellular utility with out even having to kind any password. Additional safety providers embody digital signature providers for paperwork. WISeID implements requirements equivalent to OpenID Connect and OAUTH2, which can be simply built-in by clients to reinforce the safety of their cloud purposes. WISeID will also be mixed with Microsoft Active Directory, facilitating integration with company purposes. WISeID is predicated on the WISeKey/OISTE Root of Trust and integrates modern blockchain applied sciences to distribute the id attributes and construct federated ecosystems.

The SeyID challenge additionally integrates a cloud signature resolution that allows the customers to digitally signal paperwork and different transactions, simply and with full authorized validity. This will allow a quick advance in the implementation of eGovernment and different makes use of for the personal sector, by successfully dematerializing the processes, eliminating the want of manuscript signatures on paper.

Benjamin Choppy, the Principal Secretary of the Department of Information and Communication Technology in Seychelles mentioned, “The e-ID platform, SeyID, is a fundamental component in the implementation of Seychelles Government Digital Economy Agenda and its coming into operation marks a key milestone achievement.”

“WISeKey is proud to have been awarded by the Government of Seychelles this project to build the National Digital Identity platform, which confirms the potential of the WISeID solution as a solid base to deliver such services,” mentioned Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey.

The SeyID platform is already delivered and in the final phases of integration with eGovernment and personal corporations, equivalent to banking providers. It shall be opened for non-residents in 2023, aiming to suggest new providers for tourism and worldwide business.

About WISeKey

WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a number one world cybersecurity firm at present deploying massive scale digital id ecosystems for folks and objects utilizing Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors safe the pervasive computing shaping in the present day’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an set up base of over 1.5 billion microchips in nearly all IoT sectors (linked automobiles, good cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, good lighting, servers, computer systems, cell phones, crypto tokens and so on.).  WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce an enormous quantity of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), may also help industrial purposes to foretell the failure of their gear earlier than it occurs.

Our expertise is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss primarily based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) offers safe authentication and identification, in each bodily and digital environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a typical belief anchor to make sure the integrity of on-line transactions amongst objects and between objects and folks. For extra info, go to www.wisekey.com.

Press and investor contacts:

Disclaimer:
This communication expressly or implicitly incorporates sure forward-looking statements regarding WISeKey International Holding Ltd and its business. Such statements contain sure recognized and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different elements, which may trigger the precise outcomes, monetary situation, efficiency or achievements of WISeKey International Holding Ltd to be materially totally different from any future outcomes, efficiency or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. WISeKey International Holding Ltd is offering this communication as of this date and doesn’t undertake to replace any forward-looking statements contained herein consequently of new info, future occasions or in any other case.
This press launch doesn’t represent a proposal to promote, or a solicitation of a proposal to purchase, any securities, and it doesn’t represent an providing prospectus inside the which means of article 652a or article 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations or a list prospectus inside the which means of the itemizing guidelines of the SIX Swiss Exchange. Investors should depend on their very own analysis of WISeKey and its securities, together with the deserves and dangers concerned. Nothing contained herein is, or shall be relied on as, a promise or illustration as to the future efficiency of WISeKey.