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SECURE, TRANSPARENT, AND SIMPLE:
BEYON CONNECT Gulf Insider interviews Beyon Connect CEO Christian Rasmussen. The new products are being developed to respond to the needs of the public and private sectors, addressing challenges that are becoming more commonplace in the changing digitised economy.
What is the drive and purpose behind Beyon Connect?
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eyon Connect is focussed on delivering new technologies with great innovation potential, Software-as-a-Service platforms, and advanced IT solutions in the MENA region. Under the Beyon Connect umbrella, two new products were recently launched: One Box and One ID. One Box is an innovative digital postbox solution designed to enable 62
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national secure communication between the public sector, private businesses, and residents of Bahrain in one secure, convenient, and trusted digital space. OneID is a highly secure single e-ID which will be made available as a mobile application. It allows onboarding of Bahrain residents through an advanced e-KYC process supporting passport and national ID cards with facial recognition and liveness check.
Our mission is to create better and more inclusive digital societies for individuals and businesses in the MENA region. To do so, we offer digital seamless communication solutions, in which transparency, security, and efficiency are key elements. We found that a number of society-created infrastructures have large potential in Bahrain. These infrastructures have been a driver of building better digital societies for Denmark and the Northern countries, which rank high in terms of eGovernment rankings in the United Nations. Our response was to build a strategy pinpointing the missing elements in order to move up the ranks in comparison to the leading countries. We identified strategic areas focussing on citizen-centered and business-oriented communication, providing a digital identity, and later on utilising these with innovative smart cities integrations. Essentially, we want to build an ecosystem where individuals or business owners can have any kind of digital proof or digital communication, such as insurance, company, health organizations, car, or house, injected into personal, digital, free of cost mailboxes. Trust and data privacy are of critical
