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"Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."

- Preamble, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Challenge

Technology giants own and control the email addresses they let us sign up for. We agreed to those legal “terms and conditions” or “terms of use” that came with the account associated with the email address. We had to. If we refused, we would lose access to the digital worlds we play in everyday because all those accounts and profiles we set up use that email address.

 

We have no unique identifier to use across all our digital worlds that we alone own, use, and control. 

Image by Matthew Henry

The Opportunity

We need a unique identifier for all of our digital worlds that does not depend on an email address subject to someone else’s rules.

We need a legal foundation for that identifier so that we have a sound legal footing on which to assert ownership over that identifier as well as all the data we generate online with it.   

The legal structure for that identifier needs to be a not-for-profit entity that can be sustained in perpetuity, one where mission and vision control, not shareholders.   

In that legal structure, the identifier owners need to have a voice, and a vote, over what happens to that identifier.

ARCA embraces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as its guidepost to honor human dignity in digital worlds just the Declaration does for human dignity in the physical world.

Our Implementation

The solution is an international non-profit: ARC Association (ARCA).

ARCA hosts the Registry, a private chain where each and every person’s unique digital identifier is held for safekeeping, for them to access, own, and control however they want.

Decision-making at ARCA is through its members who act through representatives to the Association’s General Assembly.

ARCA Members are (1) national chapters around the world comprised of identifier owners in that jurisdiction; (2) individuals who accept to be bound by the Association’s articles and who have no official national chapter; and (3) node operators within a national chapter’s network who support and are part of the national chapter’s constituents authorized to vote on representation in ARCA.

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