Celebrating International Women's Day, OISTE.ORG and WISe.ART will Raise Funds for the Nuevo Hogar Begoña NGO, During the Cryptoverse Island Event in Madrid (May 11-13, 2023), Using NFTs

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GENEVA / Zug – March 8, 2023: WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), leading global cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain, and IoT company today announces that during the Cryptoverse Island Madrid event, which will be taking place from May 11-13, 2023, one of the panels will be dedicated to how NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) can help stop human trafficking and abuse with an innovative formula to raise funds for NGOs, such as the Nuevo Hogar Betania Foundation.

On behalf of OISTE, WISe.ART is going to create limited editions NFTs with AI generated art and traditional art pieces donated by the participating artists to raise funds for the Nuevo Hogar Betania NGO, thus contributing to the magnificent work they do for those in dire need. Nuevo Hogar Betania also carries out tasks of protection and assistance to women in contexts of prostitution and detection of possible cases of trafficking, awareness raising and prevention of gender violence. In the same way, they contribute to the training of health, social, educational professionals and State Security Forces and Corps so that they can deal with treatment with victims from a gender perspective in their interventions. The entity has also developed specific care programs for women and the fight against gender inequalities and sexist violence since 2012. In its last financial year, they counted 784 cares for women and minors.

For more information visit: https://nuevohogarbetania.com/area-trata-seres-humanos. Also, the following link highlights support from Begoña Arana (Princess of Girona Award 2019), Director of Nuevo Hogar Betania, and Queen Leticia: https://smoda.elpais.com/moda/la-reina-letizia-luce-una-blusa-confeccionada-por-mujeres-supervivientes-de-la-explotacion-sexual/.

Cryptoverse Island is one of the first European NFT art exhibitions focused on crypto art featuring a ‘phygital’ or hybrid physical and digital art platform focused exclusively on digital work. The NFTs will be presented for sale on large, high-tech screens & high-definition graphic projectors. The NFTs will be sold throughout the exhibition on the entrusted NFT platform, WISe.ART, a fully-fledged platform secured by WISe-Key technology ensuring an authenticated and signed version of the actual digital asset, providing proof of ownership, provenance, and a set of smart contracts Terms & Conditions describing future use and monetization streams.

About WISe.ART: WISe.ART is a fully-fledged marketplace. It can connect all actors of the arts industry.  Our white-labelling options and special NFT designs ensure that besides an authenticated and signed version of the actual digital asset, creating an irreversible link to the physical object, providing proof of ownership, provenance, and a set of smart contracts describing future use and monetization streams.
The WISe.ART NFT platform is fully secured by WISeKey’s innovative security technologies enabling the authentication of digital assets, in a safe end-to-end process based on our experience and proven expertise in this domain.

About WISeKey: WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.).  WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), can help industrial applications to predict the failure of their equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and between objects and people. For more information, visit www.wisekey.com.

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