International Secure Electronic Transactions Organisation
A Swiss foundation for trust, privacy and human dignity online
Since 1998 the OISTE Foundation has worked in Geneva and at the United Nations for privacy, certified digital identity, ethical artificial intelligence and an accountable internet. It also holds a neutral cryptographic root of trust in the public interest.
- Swiss foundation, Geneva, 1998
- Special consultative status with UN ECOSOC
- Supervised by the FSAF
What we do
Four areas of work
Advocacy
Human rights online
Privacy, data protection and the Declaration of Digital Human Rights, carried into UN processes.
UN engagement
AI and Identity
AI under human control
HUMAN-AI-T, the foundation’s framework for artificial intelligence that stays accountable to people.
HUMAN-AI-T
AI and Identity
Certified digital identity
Verifiable identity for people, objects and content, and legal identity for all under SDG 16.9.
Digital identity
Root of Trust
A neutral root of trust
A cryptographic root held by a foundation, not a vendor or a state, now with a post-quantum root.
Root of Trust
From the foundation
Latest
25 September 2026
Post-quantum root of trust extended to AI models and agents
The Quantum Root Key programme now issues credentials to AI systems, autonomous agents and their human operators.
18 December 2025
OISTE at the World Human Rights Concert, United Nations Geneva
The foundation presented HUMAN-AI-T alongside ONUART and its partners at the Palais des Nations.
22 April 2025
HUMAN-AI-T presented at the third UNAOC dialogue on AI for One Humanity
The Secretary General set out the case for human-centred, identity-anchored AI at the United Nations in Geneva.