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The rain has finally come to my corner of the south west in the UK, after 2 months of almost continuous hot dry weather. The news is full of heatwave statistics and predictions – a welcome change from Brexit!
July is the first month since January, where there has not been a conference to speak, showcase and workshop at which takes time and energy to organize and prepare for. With no conferences, Kantara typically uses July to pause for breath, re-energize and do long overdue maintenance on its documents, processes and procedures. Vacation? Not for me in July, but I have looked on with envy while Kantara members such as @katrynadow tease us with holiday plans and snaps from mountains, beaches and cities around the world. My turn is coming as you read this 
. I’m taking a few days out in both August and September to rest and re-energize.
Following the announcement at Idenitiverse in late June that IDESG is transitioning its assets and work to Kantara, July has seen intense activity to settle in IDESG members and participants in their new home. If this news is new to you, here’s my blog on it. Through a series of emails to the IDESG lists, information together with links to the Work Group set up in Kantara, have encouraged current and long-departed participants to re-engage with the great work being done in IDESG and support Kantara to shoulder this new financial burden as increasing numbers have in recent months. In those IDESG emails lists lurk the larger organizations that were keen to be involved in IDESG in its early years but drifted away. If you are from one of those and reading this, please get involved again, now that the work has its new home in Kantara.
Meanwhile, other activity in Kantara continues at pace. Kantara has the perfect panacea to ease the boredom that late summer’s free time brings to folks like you reading this that are not used to having any!I’m in 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 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 world, 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, we are honor-bound to support these members and partners as you would expect Kantara would do for you.
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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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