The Alan Turing Institute, a leading British AI and data science research organization, has received a renewed grant of about $4 million (£3.1 million) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The grant, which will be distributed over the next three years, aims to help countries develop secure, private, and trustworthy digital public infrastructure, with a specific focus on digital identity systems.
The project funded by this grant will address several key areas: assessing the risks associated with digital infrastructure systems, developing trust mechanisms for the use of digital IDs in cross-border trade, enhancing methods for secure data sharing, increasing the skills required to evaluate the trustworthiness of ID systems, and supporting countries in understanding cyber risks.
The Gates Foundation has previously collaborated with the Alan Turing Institute, investing $5.1 million over the past four years. This ongoing partnership aims to deliver reliable digital infrastructure, particularly benefiting low- and middle-income countries.
“We are excited to continue to work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to deliver trustworthy digital infrastructure that can support the delivery of tangible benefit across the world, but especially to those in low- and middle-income countries that need it most,” said project co-lead Prof Carsten Maple.
Prof Jon Crowcroft, the other co-lead, added, “In the past four years, we have come to share our understanding of trustworthiness in many dimensions of digital identity. In the next phase of our work, over the course of the next three years, we shall extend this understanding to digital infrastructures in general, and to digital public infrastructures in particular.”
Source: UKTN
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June 12, 2024 – by Ali Nassar-Smith
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