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I’m in sunny Seattle in the first week of September as I write this month’s edition of Director’s Corner, as we start the second half of the conference season. Our
Our first event conference hosted by our friends MyData2018, was held just last week in Helsinki. The Kantara community was well represented as members Consentua, digi.me, Open Consent Group, Trunomi and Ubisecure demonstrated an interoperability use case for the Kantara Consent Receipt. These, along with other members such as Datafund, iWelcome, UNLOQ, and non-participants such as MyLifeDigital have all deployed Kantara’s Consent Receipt in a variety of ways inside their solution offerings. And in a conference containing more theory than practice, the interop demo, Adrian Gropper’s demo of HIE of One with UMA at its core and my own presentation on the many ways in which Kantara delivers on the 6 MyData principles, Kantara showed to the personal data worldcommunity, if any further proof was needed, ‘others talk, we do’.
The International Identity Summit (IIS) event hosted this year in Seattle by the University of Washington with the Industry host and Kantara liaison DIACC, is very different. It is essentially an invitation-only government event where jurisdictions share knowledge behind closed doors that are later opened to allow industry to engage. Typically Kantara would not attend because it has not been granted any podium time. But with Kantara holding the largest contingent of government members of any identity industry consortia and the fact that KIPI program performer Lockstep Technologies is announcing its transition to commercialization along with members Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada, 1Kosmos and SecureKey Technologies all presenting, we are honor-bound to support these members and partners them as you would might expect Kantara would do for youcould do for you.
Looking back into August, Kantara had both a busy and successful month.
In the US, Kantara's Assurance Review Board, the executive sub committee of the main Board governing the Trust Framework Operations and Assurance program 3rd party-approved ID.me, the first ever Service Provider conforming to NIST SP 800-63-3 Identity Assurance at IAL2 & AAL2 with several additional providers now in the queue for approval and grant of Trust Mark through Kantara’s Trust Framework Operations Programme. It got extensive press coverage but you can read the combined press release here that started that wave of interest, some of which you can see here. With the transition of IDESG's assets into the newly established 501c3 entity, the Kantara Initiative Educational Foundation Inc, taking much of our resources in July, August was a period of consolidation as the IDEF WG began to take shape with further work drafting done on its charter. Kantara has control of IDESG's website and wiki and of course the IDEF Registry and the IDEF Trust Mark re-styled for Kantara's stable of schemes.
In Europe, Kantara Initiative Europe, the Estonian based trade association operating Kantara's assets under licence, was successful in winning a bid for grant funding for ICT24 Next Generation Internet from the European Commission under the H2020 program.
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Pre-Register for the Australian Digital Transformation Agency webinar on August 16. The webinar, hosted by Kantara’s eGov WG, features Kantara government member DTA as they walk us through their Trusted Digital Identity Framework.
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