Hello everyone
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I begin this final Director's Corner of 2020 with 2021 just a few hours away. Many of our members in both hemispheres are taking time out for Holidays, so I hope hope this update finds you safe, well, rested and recharging for what is to be a pivotal 2021 - globally, nationally, locally and individually.
It 2021 will certainly will be pivotal for Kantara , as we wrestle with increased global interest in our capabilities and demand for our services. Our resource pool however remains largely comprised of the same familiar voices that participate on our calls and in emails in on our group discussion threads. What I encourage everyone to ask what can you do to champion Kantara further within your organization, and what can we do to help you do that successfully?
Thinking about our resources, it is with sadness that we bid farewell to Catherine Schulten from the Staff team. While between jobs Catherine has been helping out between jobs , on a modest contract, been helping out primarily with Board and Staff support but also extending into Group support at times. On To Catherine, on behalf of the Board and Staff, I wish you the very best wishes for on your exciting and enormously challenging new role with Change Healthcare. We will miss your strategic insight, your 'can do' attitude to turn your hand to anything that needed doing and your sense of humor. But as one door closes, another opens. We're hiring! If you, or someone you know that , is experienced in the things that Kantara operates and supports, please let me know.
Looking back into December, I want to start with the call for nominations for Directors at Large. For the 2 two positions catered provided for by current Bylaws, we had 4 four organization nominations - one from Canada, one from Germany and two from the US. This was a great result; in fact so great, that the Board is proposing to accept all 4four. But to do so, it requires making a minor amendment to the Bylaws is required. And to do make that it amendment Kantara needs to notify members , thirty days prior to it being enacted. Once enacted Kantara will conduct an all-Member Ballot for the slate. Members will see an email with all the details soon.
Later on Also in December, we welcomed Origo Services Limited Limited from Scotland as members. There is a back story here in that for For several years now Origo has been fascinated with the functionality of the UMA protocol and have been internally working on a Profile of UMA related to the UK Government's Pension Dashboard Programme. And upon joining, Origo offered its profile to the UMA Working Group for consideration as a contribution and onwards to a Kantara publication, the form of which has not yet been decided yet. The last couple of UMA calls have been largely dedicated to the first phase of this review by the UMA WG participants. We understand that the Pensions Dashboard Programme is expected to make considerable progress during 2021, so the contribution proposal is timely. Thank you Origo! And while thinking about members, welcome back Accredited Assessor, The The Slandala Company Company - thank you for renewing!
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- By the numbers we
- received double the expressions of interest in conformity assessment, assurance and grant of trust mark in our Trust Framework Operations program,
- doubled our publications,
- doubled our responses to requests for comment on consultations on digital identity around the world, and
- slightly increased our Membership; and
- We launched the Privacy & Identity for mDL Discussion Group which attracts an ever-growing and influential following as the draft Report begins to take shape. Thank you AAMVA, TSA and others for your support there.
Looking forward to 2021, we have, in the near term we have , the Directors at Large to seat of course and our fresh new website for review and comment. We also have increasing interest for our Trust Framework mapping and governance capabilities from the public sector largely, from all corners of the world, so we look forward to translating that interest into funded work projects. Last, but certainly not least, is the Board's priority work areas that President Matt summarized at the AGM on November 30th. Together with the work areas, comes several quite significant strategic changes - some have been in the oven for a couple of years, others are very recent products of the Board's 2021-2025 strategic review during the mid-year. While different in detail, they are all common in supporting the unique and open Kantara community that you are a part of. Whether it is conformity assessment and assurance at the heart of operating Trust Frameworks agnostic to any scheme or standard, or mapping gaps and deltas between standards, schemes and trust Frameworks, or digital identity related RFP support, or sponsored publications arising out of working and discussion group collaboration, existing work and new opportunities are designed to blend nicely together in a re-organized and re-energized Kantara.
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