Industry: Non Profit

Founded: 2015

BNF is transforming how the world uses data to recognize and enable the ‘digitally-disenfranchised’.

A ‘bluenumber’ enables anyone to let themselves be recognised globally. An individual uses a bluenumber to put a basic set of information about themselves into the public domain. Any existing serial number, code, name, identity card number or telephone number in the world can be designated as a bluenumber.

BNF promotes the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) and offers the global public registry of bluenumbers (‘BlueView’) to measure the achievement of the SDGs. Governments, businesses, NGOs and communities use BlueView to make better policy-making decisions and design targeted sustainability solutions.

BNF believes making better things happen means having people telling the world exactly who they are, where they are, what they do, what they need and what they want.