by Angela Guess

A recent article out of the company states, “WISeKey International Holding Ltd, a leading cybersecurity company, during its participation at the Mauritius Investment Board Blockchain event, announced its intention to establish a BlockChain Centre of Excellence in Mauritius to deploy a Trusted Blockchain as a Service platform, to assist the Mauritius Government to create a Blockchain Ecosystem. WISeKey will work with experts from industry, government, and academia to address businesses’ most relevant blockchain developments with practical, standards-based solutions using available blockchain technologies. This dedicated center of excellence will conduct research, rapid pilot prototyping, co-creation of use cases and IP creation on blockchain technology and platforms. The Mauritius BlockChain Centre of Excellence will recommend a National Blockchain Platform to facilitate enterprises to swiftly adopt and on-board blockchain based solutions and services.”

The release goes on, “The Mauritius Blockchain Center of Excellence will help position the country as a key and active player in the blockchain space. It will provide access to both policy, technical and business expertise around blockchain. WISeKey will be cooperating with local companies participating at the center on building points of view, proof of concepts, policies, educational materials including addressing all the distributed ledger capabilities across different blockchain schemes (public, consortium and private), with industry verticalization and domain specialization (IoT, transactions, messaging, etc.), underpinned by the best underlying technologies from startups, our key partners and from the community. Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO WISeKey said: ‘We strongly believe that the Blockchain Center of Excellence will disrupt business flows and processes across different industries in Mauritius and will position the country as one of the Blockchain Platforms and Hubs’.”

Read more at BusinessWire.

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