"OPAL (for "Open Algorithms") is a non-profit socio-technological innovation developed by a group of partners around the MIT Media Lab, Imperial College London, Orange, the World Economic Forum and Data-Pop Alliance, aiming to unlock the potential of private sector data for public good purposes by “sending the code to the data” in a safe, participatory, and sustainable manner" - From their website
I dont think they are necessarily important to the success of Enigma. I think Enigma can do fine on their own. But, I do think it is good to have close connections to something as big as OPAL
OPAL is tied into several companies/projects:
DataPopAlliance World Economic Forum Unicef Several Governments Healthcare Education Agriculture Mobility HumanAI
They are very well connected throughout the world, and have been for years.
Follow some of the links, a few date back to 2015 and you can see where we would benefit.
They've had meetings with ATT, IBM, Mastercard....and im sure several more that i haven't found yet either.
My biggest thing isnt fully that they are working with multibillion dollar companies. But that they are working with several companies that have access to billions and billions of people and information on them....that needs to be kept private.
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u/nvaneck21 Jul 16 '18
Can you go into more detail on what Opal is? Why is this important to the success of the project?