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8 de marzo de 2022
The NGI initiative is committed to equality, particularly as it relates to women's universal access to a safe and trustable Internet. But also from the other side, promoting women who with their technological innovations are transforming the ecosystem for a human-centric internet. We invite you to meet some of these women innovators, who have been interviewed by our team on the Who’s NGI blog.
🔗 RICOCHET REFRESH: PRESERVING ANONYMITY WITH SUELETTE DREYFUS. Ricochet Refresh is designed to preserve anonymity to safeguard journalists or patients who want to safeguard personal data about their health via secure and encrypted open source software, as Suelette Dreyfus explains.
🔗 WHO’S NGI? IRENE HERNANDEZ DESCRIBES HER SELF-SOVEREIGN IDENTITY SOLUTION GATACA. Irene Hernandez, a Spanish entrepreneur, and the GATACA team transformed a vision on a napkin – building a new Identity layer for the Internet – into an internationally recognised company that is shaping Europe’s Digital Future.
🔗 CRISTINA MARQUEZ ON WHY MOBILE INTERNET IS THE AGENT OF CHANGE. Spanish researcher Cristina Marquez got to work at MIT in the US on her passions for entrepreneurship and mobile applications, thanks to a grant from NGI Explorers. Cristina explains how she was able to realise a childhood dream and her determination to ensure gender balance in science.
🔗 WHO’S NGI? HANNA SCHRAFFENBERGER DESCRIBES ‘IRMA MADE EASY’ FOR IDENTITY MANAGEMENT. Hanna Schraffenberger felt so passionately that a leading identity management app’s user experience could be improved, she applied for NGI support and made the app not only easier to use, but more widely adopted.
🔗 WHO’S NGI: ALINA KHAYRETDINOVA, MAKING DECENTRALIZED IDENTITIES EASY TO USE. What are decentralised identities and why do we need them? Alina Khayretdinova, Senior Researcher at the Identity Management Team, Institute of Human Factors and Technology Management IAT of the University of Stuttgart, describes the path to user-friendly decentralised identity solutions in the DECIDE project.
🔗 WHO’S NGI: JAYA KLARA BREKKE WITH COBOX PEER-TO-PEER CLOUD. Jaya Klara Brekke describes how CoBox uses peer-to-peer technology for Internet users to co-operate with each other to securely back up data, without losing out on data sovereignty.
🔗 WHO’S NGI: ALYSSA ROSS TALKS SECURITY OF OPERATING SYSTEMS. How can you know your computer is secure when you can hardly tell what goes on behind the screen? Spectrum is a new operating system supported by the Next Generation Internet that will make isolation of data and applications easier to use.
You can access all NGI innovators interviewed for the Who’s NGI blog here.
