THE VILLAGE GROUP enabling the authenticity economy

ENABLING the AUTHENTICITY ECONOMY

Economics is about scarcity. For the last few decades the scarce commodity that made billionnaires of those who successfully aggregated and sold it was attention. Viewers, listeners, audience share, demographics, eyeballs and clicks were the stock in trade of the awareness aggregators, the media barons.

Then, around 2010, after years of the effects of inauthenticity - years of spam, malware, fraud, predation and theft - had taken its toll on the world's economy, the new scarce commodity overtook attention as the object of value.

Authenticity, the "new" scarce commodity, had actually been for centuries the object of value in villages around the world. Now, authenticity has returned as the focal point in the new village of six and a half billion people, the global village. Authenticity has become scarce and valued.

QEA: AUTHENTICITY SUPPLIERS TO THE WORLD

The member enterprises and noncommercial organizations of the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure deliver authenticity in many forms. 

• Reliable Identities, Inc. produces identities that relying parties can trust, using sound enrollment practices and identity quality metrics 
• Abyx Properties offers MyOwnOffice, a place where you can claim ownership of, and control over, information about yourself.
• Authentrust, Inc. brings reliable identity tools and methods to the enterprise
• StartCom Ltd. serves audited certification services to operators of web sites and infividuals
• The World Trust Signatories Association provides an opportunity for individuals to help the ITU in its efforts to bring duly constituted public authority to online facilities

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