There have been a lot of problems called out and identified over the past 10 years, especially as we've gotten better situational awareness, collected more data than ever before in our world, in our society. And it seems that there's a problem in every nook and cranny. And even worse, there's solutions. Everyone's proposed a solution for how we can make the world a better place or have better, cleaner energy or what we should focus on or what's even a problem or not. And so it kind of seems right now that the biggest obstacle for us moving forward as a species isn't just let's say you know designing the right solution.
It's how do we actually come together and align on which problems to tackle in which order and what values and principles do we want to keep in mind. If you look at countries like for example India they had a really brilliant new identity system. This was biometrics based. It banked a lot of unbanked people who couldn't previously have any identifying documents and there were no bank accounts. But the problem is it got breached because there's a centralized database and it's very tough to make controls for that large scale of identity systems.
This is where you actually really need privacy. You really need identity. You know, there are countries with less stable governments where maybe it gets taken over and then some really bad dictator can now know the address of everybody uh who was opposing them. The problem we're trying to solve is how do we build resilient infrastructure that protects against existential risks by placing humans at the center of technology. And one way to approach resilience is thinking specifically about how we can maintain quality of life, maintain access to basic services and even expand that to other populations.
We're mostly just building technology for digital rights. Whether it's identity, privacy, security, ease of access to cryptography, financial freedom, these are all within our realm of focus. We're looking to tackle challenges in bringing these really great sovereign tools. We have antenna encryption. We have zero knowledge identity for privacy.
We have self- sovereign wallets where people can transfer money without the need of a bank or a government. But nobody can use them yet. So we need to bridge this gap from technology to humanity. There are ways to do this where we can preserve against some of the risks of identifying by really I think reducing the trust that we put into these systems and then making sure that privacy is one of these default settings. Right?
The basic idea is that the person always has full control. They're always consenting like any interaction should begin with user consent over what they're disclosing. It almost seems like we need a refresh of the culture around technology and how we interact with it. something that's actually transcultural, right? Where we bridge across shared values.
No matter where you're from or what your main issues or main challenge is that you're trying to solve, there are going to be things that we all share because of our humanity and the and the planet that we call home. [Music]
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