Microsoft was also proud to be a signatory to the Paris call for trust and security in cyberspace announced in November by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Paris peace summit. With over 500 signatories, it is the largest ever multi-stakeholder commitment to principles for the protection of cyberspace.
Another focus of your committee has been the increasing interference by bad actors in the democratic processes of numerous countries around the world. We fully agree that the tech sector needs to do more to help protect the democratic process. Earlier this week, we were pleased to endorse the Canada declaration on electoral integrity announced by Minister Gould.
Microsoft has taken action to help protect the integrity of our democratic processes and institutions. We have created the Defending Democracy program, which works with stakeholders in democratic countries to promote election integrity, campaign security and disinformation defence.
As part of this program, Microsoft offers a security service called AccountGuard at no cost to Office 365 customers in the political ecosystem. It is currently offered in 26 countries, including Canada, the U.S., the U.K., India, Ireland and most other EU countries. It's currently protecting over 36,000 email accounts. Microsoft AccountGuard identifies and warns individuals and organizations of cyber-threats, including attacks from nation-state actors. Since the launch of the program, it has made hundreds of threat notifications to participants.
We have also been using technology to ensure the resiliency of the voting process. Earlier this month, we announced ElectionGuard, a free, open-source software development kit aimed at making voting more secure by providing end-to-end verification of elections, opening results to third party organizations for secure validation, and allowing individual voters to confirm that their votes were counted correctly.
At Microsoft, we're working hard to ensure that we develop our technologies in ways that are human-centred and that allow for broad and fair access by everyone. The rapid advancement of compute power and the growth of AI solutions will help us be more productive in nearly every field of human endeavour and will lead to greater prosperity, but the challenges need to be addressed with a sense of shared responsibility. In some cases this means moving more slowly in the deployment of a full range of AI solutions while working thoughtfully and deliberately with government officials, academia and civil society.
We know that there is more that we need to do to continue earning trust, and we understand that we will be judged by our actions, not just our words. Microsoft is committed to continuing to work in deliberate and thoughtful partnership with government as we move forward in this digital world.
Thank you, and we're happy to receive your questions.