Let's talk about digital identity with Monique Morrow, President and Co-Founder of the Humanized Internet and President at the VETRI Foundation. We're very excited to kick off #LTADI 2020 with Monique Morrow, multi-hyphen technology innovator and a Forbes Magazine's top 50 women globally in tech. [Scroll down for transcript] "2020 is going to be the year for digital identity and, even more so, self-sovereign identity" In episode 13, Oscar and Monique discuss her route to digital identity, ethics in technology and credentialing, self-sovereign identity (SSI), and the various interesting projects that she is involved with. Monique Morrow is President and Co-Founder of the Humanized Internet, a non-profit organisation focused on addressing the need to control our identities as well as providing digital identity for those individuals most underserved. The belief in the social good of technology with embedded ethics has guided Monique’s extensive work with blockchain, especially its applicability to education and credentialing as well as other industries including healthcare, insurance, and Internet of things. Find out more about the Humanized Internet at www.thehumanizedinternet.org. Monique is also President of the VETRI Foundation in Switzerland. The main purpose of the Foundation is to manage a platform presently known as VETRI and the funding, establishment and execution of initiatives that are focused on the management and control of data and privacy. The Foundation abides by the key tenets of "Trust and Transparency". The vision is to enable individuals to self-determine over their data. This alignment translates to assessing possible investments and activities towards secure self-sovereignty and secure e-vault mechanisms for the management and storage of data. Find out more about the VETRI Foundation at vetri.global/the-vetri-foundation-is-here. Much of Monique’s work operates at the intersection between blockchain technology, security-privacy issues, questions of legal jurisdiction, and portfolio development. She has had the opportunity to engage with and explore these issues in her capacity as a member of the procivis.ch and VETRI ’Global advisory boards based in Switzerland . Furthermore, she is also an active member of the IEEE Ethics in Action Executive Committee as well as Co-Chair of the IEEE Ethics in Action Extended Reality Committee. More about Monique can be found on LinkedIn and at www.moniquemorrow.com. We'll be continuing this conversation on Twitter using #LTADI - join us @ubisecure! [Podcast transcript] Oscar Santolalla: Let’s Talk About Digital Identity, the podcast connecting identity and business. I am your host Oscar Santolalla. Hello and thanks for joining today. We are starting the New Year 2020 and I hope you had a nice time in 2019. Now we are back and we have a fabulous guest to start this year - a guest who has an amazing career in technology, in cybersecurity and today she has embarked a lot on projects for combined technology with social impact, and a lot of that is also related to digital identity. Monique Morrow is President and Co-Founder of the Humanized Internet, a non-profit organisation focused on addressing the need to control our identities as well as providing digital identity for those individuals most underserved. The belief in the social good of technology with embedded ethics has guided Monique’s extensive work with blockchain, especially its applicability to education and credentialing as well as other industries including healthcare, insurance, and Internet of Things. Monique is also President of the VETRI Foundation in Switzerland. Among other accolades, Monique has been recognised in the industry for her tireless focus on social good. Monique was selected as one of the Top Digital Shapers 2018 in Switzerland. In this year, One World Identity recognised Monique as one of the top 100 influencers in identity for 2019.