Identified, a book I've authored about the global rise of digital identification systems, will be out Summer 2013.
Last year the best-performing short was Endwave, which makes radio frequency identification systems.
At the same time, the very basis for identification systems are changing from improving government functions to enabling citizen services.
It analyzes the technologies that governments and companies use to see who we are things such as national identification systems, biometrics, and online identity.
Some countries, such as Brazil in the Americas and a few in the Pacific Rim, already have sophisticated identification systems for their financial firms, said a regulator.
No doubt there will be some benefits: fraud, in particular the persistent and increasingly annoying problem of identity theft, might be substantially reduced if biometric-identification systems, introduced in the form of passports, visas and identity cards, become widespread.
He has been working on data standards since 1999 but found that reaching agreement on a global standard proved impossible with all the competing interests among standards bodies, commercial and financial services networks combined with a lack of interest from banks which had already developed more or less satisfactory identification systems of their own.
"I don't foresee anything changing, " he says, citing emerging data floods from global positioning systems, radio-frequency identification tags and Homeland Security regulations.
Another goal: to make Songdo the largest so-called ubiquitous city, where wireless networks and radio-frequency identification will link all information systems--every laptop, stoplight, cell phone, TV and toaster.
The remaining 15% of first-half sales came from the aviation segment, which offers a comprehensive line of panel-mounted and portable products, including completely integrated systems that deliver flight instrumentation, location, navigation, communication and identification data.
"Reported rates of suicide in other parts of India are low because identification of suicides is difficult, owing to inefficient civil registration systems, non-reporting deaths, variable standards in certifying deaths, and the legal and social consequences of suicide, " he says.
The UK, she said, had taken the lead internationally in developing early warning systems to detect harmful new substances, with drugs able to be banned days after identification under the system of temporary class drug orders.
In particular, the Danes find nothing terribly controversial in the idea of a national health identification number, which they already have, and spend little time worrying about how to fund the new systems, since their tax kroner are doing that.
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