Key to Sustainable Development is Universal Access to the Internet for Everyone I have been involved in digitalizing Africa with smartphones for the past 10 years — first with some smartphone applications in South Africa on Symbian OS and now it’s all Android. …

MyData movement is about empowering people with their own data as individuals, groups for better society. The attendees at the MyData 2018 event have discussed multiple topics around personal data. To us domains of identity, trust frameworks, self-sovereign identity standards, ethics of AI, open credit score, and decentralized economy in…

Quite a month, this past June of 2018. We participated in events in Helsinki (Ethereum meetup), Oslo (Seed Forum Global) and Gibraltar (TokenMarket 2018 Summit) and had several meetings with advisors, partners and customers in Tallinn and Johannesburg. In some ways it feels like crazy amount of teenage crypto hormones…

With my co-founder Joakim we have had busy few weeks following unstealthing of our start-up — Aion Sigma. A road tour of the Nordic capitals of Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo and Tallinn has been on for a few weeks. …

Some weeks ago we at Aion continued validation of our business by applying for a pitching competition at the Innofrugal 2018 in Helsinki. We wanted to explore the impact investment space, how impact investors view movements and disruptive solutions for emerging markets. Our thesis was that impact investors and Aion…

At the re:publica 2018 conference Valerie Lux, Charleen Fei and Ulrike Otto were on stage to talk about important topics around identity documents and the societal aspects of blockchain. Also, workshops took place sprouting ideas about self sovereign identity as core building block of a more inclusive, more sustainable society. Financial inclusion is slowed down by digital exclusion …