Our Inspiration

The Authenticity Institute and the Authenticity Alliance are inspired by George Hatsopoulos and his company, Thermo Electron (now Thermo Fisher.)

Also like most technology companies, Thermo Electron’s main assets were some intellectual property and some core competencies about that property. Like most technology companies, Thermo had lots of bright people who kept coming up with new ideas for new ways to apply those assets and competencies in new markets and new applications.

Unlike almost all other technology companies, Thermo actually succeeded in pursuing most of those good ideas for new markets bubbling up from within the enterprise.

George Hatsopoulos

1927 – 2018

As is typical when someone in such a company presents an idea to the CEO, George Hatsopoulos would ask the brainstormer to write up a plan and submit it to him. The Hatsopoulous difference was in what was done with the plans. Most companies either put the plans in a file labeled something like “ideas to pursue when we have the time and resources,” or else they attempt to implement them as “intraprises” – effectively, – new operating units within the company, adding new complexity to the organization chart.

Avoiding the brainstorm graveyard

Whether the plan gets put aside or an intraprise is attempted, the result is typically the same: the brainstormer and their team gets frustrated and quits, often trying to pursue the plan in their own startup, in which case litigation often ensues.

Here's what Thermo’s management did differently...

If Dr. Hatsopoulos and his team, including his brother John, thought the plan was good, they’d tell the brainstormer: We are going to fund a new company. You will be its CEO. We will license our technology to your new company, we will provide engineering services to your new company, we will be its venture capitalist, bank, landlord, law firm, and ad agency.

George and John Hatsopoulos

Applying Hatsopoulosophy

In addition to the plans we’ve generated internally, we’re sure to generate lots more from our team members. We using PKI Done Right to solve the many problems caused by the pervasive lack of privacy, security and accountability in the world’s information infrastructure. Our intellectual property and core competencies will enable our Authenticity Enterprise to become the premier providers of AuthenticityTM in online spaces.

We will manufacture Authenticity by the ton. We are in the business of quietly building a complete new online environment while building a buzz about the need for the new environment. We generate the buzz by calling attention to the problems solved by our PKI called the Authenticity Infrastructure and the application of that PKI in the InDoorsTM Infrastructure.

Most startups identify a specific need in a specific niche in an established market, and meet that need with a product or service. For every thousand of those there is one Apple, Micro Soft, Quantum (AOL) or Authenticity Institute that builds both a need and also builds that which meets the need. The Authenticity Infrastructure, part of the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure, presents an InDoor™ real estate layer on top of the Internet, built upon measurably reliable identities and digitally signed occupancy permits. As you are much better off living in a residence than in a cardboard box by the side of the public roadway, precisely the same principle applies to non-physical facilities.

We look forward to working with you to apply your marketing experience in serving a particular industry or community, to solve that industry’s or community’s inauthenticity-borne challenges.

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

— Voltaire

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What is Authenticity™?

The word “Authenticity™” identifies a digital or physical space of “accountable anonymity” in which people enjoy both privacy for themselves and accountability from others.

Authenticity™ is the condition that exists in a space where there are

  • Digital Signatures Everywhere backed by
  • Measurably Reliable Identity Certificates that are
  • Owned by their Users and which provide
  • Privacy via Accountable Anonymity.

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What is The Authenticity Alliance?

We are an Authenticity Growers Cooperative

Similar to familiar agricultural cooperatives in the physical world, The Authenticity Alliance is a network of enterprises and individuals whose purpose is to “grow” Authenticity and bring it to the digital world.

Each Authenticity Enterprise—that is, each Member Enterprise of the Alliance—solves a particular inauthenticity problem in its chosen target market or audience.

What Does The Authenticity Alliance Do?

The Alliance brings together independent enterprises that share a common mission: creating spaces of accountable anonymity where digital signatures, reliable identity certificates, and privacy protection work together to solve real-world inauthenticity problems.

WHO is the Authenticity Alliance?

The Authenticity Alliance is comprised of two groups working together to promote trust and transparency across digital ecosystems.

Enterprises: Authenticity Enterprises that provide Authenticity solutions for the inauthenticity pains in a specific market or industry.

Individuals: People who understand the problems of inauthenticity that plague the world’s information systems and who want to help implement and promote Authenticity™ principles.

Authenticity Enterprises

Each is an Enterprise Member of The Authenticity Alliance

Factory Enterprises

  • Council of Attestation Officers, Inc.
  • Authenticity Capital
  • Applied Authenticity
  • Geneva Privacy

Placeware Enterprises

  • Abyx Properties, Inc.
  • Verdicello Homes
  • Authentiverse

Solutions Enterprises

Community Enterprises

  • Global Villages, Inc.
  • Internet Child Protection, Inc.

Governance Enterprises

  • The City of Osmio
  • The Authenticity Institute, Inc

Individual Enterprise in The
Authenticity Alliance

Customers and members of an Authenticity Enterprise are automatically eligible to become Individual Members of The Authenticity Alliance.You may also join directly as an individual Member here.

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