ITU Telecom World 2009 In Review 2009 Geneva 5-9 October Key questions: –– How to properly protect critical data? –– What tools are now available to protect digital identity and how best to implement them in your country or company? –– How to implement and improve identity management processes? Summary of debate: Mrs Kelly Richdale highlighted the new trend of digitizing real identity infor-mation and the problems that accompany this development including privacy and the risks of processing personal data. The security benefits of using irises, fingerprints, face recognition and other biometric technology are recognized but this information needs to be protected and used in the right way. In many cases the technology is out in front of the legislation that needs to accompany the digitizing or real identity material. How safe and protected is this data? What about data and identity theft? Who has access to this information? What is the recourse for the user if the data is misused? The Chancellor of Geneva, Robert Hensler, introduced the Geneva e-voting sys-tem which operates over secure SSL corridor, a technology developed by the Government of Geneva and now being sold to other governments and/or con-sumers. Mr Ramamurthy introduced India’s new initiative to provide every citizen with a digital identity card using a system of multi-layer authentication. Moderator * Ms Deborah Taylor Tate, Former Commissioner, U.S. Federal Communications Com-mission, United States Panellists * Mr Rajagopalan Ramamurthy, Chairman, Cyber Society of India, India * Mr Pascal Thoniel, Chairman & CEO, NTX Research SA, France * Mr Robert Hensler, State Chancellor, State of Geneva, Switzerland 128 Forum Summary Report