Services

Services

WORLD is developing an open-access platform that will enable 3rd parties to access four primary capabilities: 

  • Identity
  • Messaging
  • Payments
  • Reputation

In addition WORLD has an Android app and progressive web app (PWA) enabling citizens to access these capabilities through a range of services.

A “Citizen” is anyone who has a WORLD ID. WORLD offers select services free of charge to citizens. 

Identity - PERSONA

Citizens personal information is secured in the cloud based persona data store.

All citizen information secured by WORLD remains the property of the individual and will not be shared by WORLD without the individual’s concent.

WORLD ID

A WORLD ID is a unique user name that enables citizens to access WORLD services and is never shared by WORLD.

Personal information

Citizens are able to add information about themselves. This is information that citizens would like to either: 

  • Keep private in a secure environment, or
  • Share with other people in a convenient and controlled manner.

Things that can be secured or shared are; phone numbers, email addresses, street and postal addresses, identity numbers and documents, vehicle registration numbers, account information, etc. Pretty much anything that does not require excessive storage space.

Personas

For the purpose of authenticating with third party services or for sharing selected information, WORLD enables citizens to create multiple “Personas” (profiles) that are visible to the out-side world. Personas are a representation of the citizen in WORLD and appear in the app as bubbles at the top of the screen. Citizens can create as many Personas as required and can choose to associate any, or none of their information with these Personas.

Trusted Identity

The WORLD app will enable citizens to capture information required to create a Trusted Identity; ID photo, passport or other identity document, and proof of address. Where required information will need to be validated using a web of trust.

A Trusted Identity enables strangers to engage online with confidence that each party is in fact who they claim to be, without any requirement to exchange personal information, irrespective of which Persona is being used.

Messaging – GOSSIPS

WORLD allows third parties to integrate directly to the Gossips (geospatial publish and subscribe) messaging platform. This implies messaging can be integrated with any app and appear to a user as if it were native to that service.

Chat

WORLD supports both public (anyone can join) and private (invitation only) chat. Both one-on-one and group chats are called Topics. In addition to group chats, Topics can be configured as:

  • Broadcast Topics – only entitling the owner to publish to the group.
  • Whisper Topics – only the owner can publish to the group, although individuals are able to reply directly to the Topic owner.

Citizens can chat with complete anonymity using the Persona name they chose. Phone numbers are not exposed to other citizens.

Geospatial

WORLD supports geospatial messaging so citizens will receive messages based on their location (provided location is being shared).

Topics can be anchored to a set of co-ordinates and have a specified radius. Citizens subscribed to the Topic will only receive messages within this footprint. It is also possible to limit the exchange of messages to citizens that are within a specified range of each other.

Whisper

Within any group chat a citizen can send a private message (whisper) to another participant on the chat. Only the sender and receiver will see the message.

Chatbot - Messaging Assistant

Chatbot facilitates a range of automated responses and enables simplified access to external systems. In addition a state machine and an event engine have been developed.

The use-cases for the chatbot are limitless and third parties can contact WORLD if they desire access to a chatbot.

Payments – TRANSACT

A key objective of the enabled.WORLD project is to simplify access to financial services. In many emerging markets Mobile Money, offered by telecommunications operators, has become the dominant banking service. Mobile Money  is generally accessed via USSD or Operator centric apps. WORLD integrates to Mobile Money (and other financial platforms) to offer alternative access mechanisms.

Mobile Wallets

Citizens may link their Mobile Money account to a wallet in WORLD. Citizens can have multiple wallets and these will be displayed as buttons next to the citizen’s name on all sent messages. It is possible to transfer money to any citizen’s wallet, from a compatible wallet, as simply as attaching an image to a message. No knowledge of the recipients’ account information is required.

Pay now

If the recipient does not have a WORLD wallet, then citizens can also pay directly to a compatible account provided they know the account number and any other required credentials.

Ledger

In addition to integrating with external financial systems, Transact also has a Ledger component that can keep track of internal tokens, awards, points, etc.

Reputation – OPINION

Gossips, the WORLD messaging platform, supports active components within messages. These can be configured as in message buttons.

  • Rating: Citizens can publish a rating message on a Topic that allows recipients to respond with a 1 to 5 star rating, simply by tapping on the relevant star in the message.
  • Voting: Citizens can pose a question and provide multiple choice answers as active buttons in a message.

Citizens may see the current standing after voting and the results from rating and voting messages will be accumulated in the Opinion data store.