Bluenumber Foundation Inc

We believe that Personal Data as personal property is a necessary foundation for our future as we increasingly become described and defined by our data. We are providing support to digital platforms and initiatives that advance Data Property Rights as basic 'Digital' Human Rights. We center this on self-sovereign, peer-validated Digital Identity (DID) to which such rights can accrue. We want these provisions to be available especially to new, young actors in the Global South, and for any person where digital connectivity will be transformative and offer life-changing opportunities. We want to provide DID to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) both geographically and socio-economically. We believe that doing so will free people from absolute reliance on governments and others to behave properly as far as their data and identity is concerned.

We adopted the SDGs as a universal framework and developed a beneficiary-centric approach. We developed a freely-available self-sovereign Digital ID to which people can accrue Data Property Rights. We have supported projects to test our SDG Scorecard and enable direct payment to beneficiaries by using self-reported environmental and social practice performance indicators.

Our base strategy to date has been engaging farmers in developing countries. They embody the 'first-mile' of local development. If we can connect them and recognize digital rights, then we can build rural wealth by enabling access to finance and markets, foster partnerships for better practice and productivity, which leads to more income to catalyze development and the SDGs.

We count on the fact that connectivity and evolving digital values is only a matter of time. We strategize to make that happen as quickly as possible.

We were founded by, and continue to be led by, experts in Human Rights and Technology. Our Board and contributors comprise former senior United Nations staffers who were integral to developing the SDGs, corporate legal and risk experts, as well as non-profit leaders from both developed and developing countries.

We have developed service-type offerings to independently evaluate and certify claims by companies or for projects. Our program contributors have domain expertise in supply chains, workers' rights, foreign and migrant worker issues, as well as how these link and interface at the national and intergovernmental policy levels.

We have trusted and established partners in South, East and Southeast Asia, also West and East Africa, with whom we can execute programs and projects.

We have established the basis for Digital ID by building a platform to enable any Person to generate their unique B# and link themselves to their peers and physical Places and Things. We have embedded into this process the ability to tag Data Property Rights. We designed and deployed our SDG Scorecard to over 2,000 farmers in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Cote d'Ivoire and Japan. We have demonstrated how to use this framework for beneficiary-centric incentives and initiatives. We nurtured HumanID, a tool to protect privacy while validating that participants and respondents in a digital endeavor are human (and not bots). We developed a process to gather, triangulate and present data as Public Goods - for example a Global Palm Oil Map layering sourcing from all brands' sources to inform conscious consumers and track health hazards from open burning.

Next - we developed GreenZone for people revive local economies post-Covid without sacrificing personal liberties though contact tracing.