Accenture&nbsp;and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology. This comes as part of a United Nations support for a project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people having no official documents. The project aims to provide refugees with better access to education and healthcare.

The new platform will connect existing record-keeping systems of commercial and public entities through blockchain. This will allow users to access their personal information wherever they are. For example, refugees who have fled their country leaving behind birth or education paper certificates would still be able to provide proof of those credentials through the system.

The companies unveiled a prototype of the network on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York during the second summit of ID2020. ID2020 is a public-private consortium that promotes the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of providing a legal identity for everyone on the planet. The prototype was built on top of an existing Accenture platform, which powers the biometric identity management system used by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Accenture and Microsoft, which worked on the prototype with managed service provider Avanade, &nbsp;are inviting other companies to join their project. &nbsp;PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cisco Systems are among the organizations involved in ID2020.

Blockchain, first developed as a public ledger of all transactions in the digital currency bitcoin, is increasingly being used to securely track data in other fields.

&quot;Without an identity, you can&#39;t access education, financial services, healthcare, you name it. You are disenfranchised and marginalized from society,&quot; David Treat, a managing director in Accenture&#39;s financial services practice, said in an interview. &quot;Having a digital identity is a basic human right.&quot;

The global business strategist at Microsoft, Yorke Rhodes, &nbsp;said in an interview that one of the main advantages of blockchain is that it allows systems of different organizations to communicate with each other.&nbsp; 
&quot;What ID2020 is truly focused on is bringing together an alliance of stakeholders to ensure the technology that is being developed is responsive to the needs of individuals,&quot; Dakota Gruener, executive director at ID2020, said in an interview.

&quot;Technology is only one piece of this.&quot;

This comes as part of a United Nations support for a project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people having no official documents

Accenture and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology. This comes as part of a United Nations support for a project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people having no official documents. The project aims to provide refugees with better access to education and healthcare. The new platform will connect existing record-keeping systems of commercial and public entities through blockchain. This will allow users to access their personal information wherever they are. For example, refugees who have fled their country leaving behind birth or education paper certificates would still be able to provide proof of those credentials through the system. The companies unveiled a prototype of the network on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York during the second summit of ID2020. ID2020 is a public-private consortium that promotes the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of providing a legal identity for everyone on the planet. The prototype was built on top of an existing Accenture platform, which powers the biometric identity management system used by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Accenture and Microsoft, which worked on the prototype with managed service provider Avanade, are inviting other companies to join their project. PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cisco Systems are among the organizations involved in ID2020. Blockchain, first developed as a public ledger of all transactions in the digital currency bitcoin, is increasingly being used to securely track data in other fields. "Without an identity, you can't access education, financial services, healthcare, you name it. You are disenfranchised and marginalized from society," David Treat, a managing director in Accenture's financial services practice, said in an interview. "Having a digital identity is a basic human right." The global business strategist at Microsoft, Yorke Rhodes, said in an interview that one of the main advantages of blockchain is that it allows systems of different organizations to communicate with each other. "What ID2020 is truly focused on is bringing together an alliance of stakeholders to ensure the technology that is being developed is responsive to the needs of individuals," Dakota Gruener, executive director at ID2020, said in an interview. "Technology is only one piece of this."

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Accenture teams up with Microsoft to provide legal identification to refugees