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Hello everyone
I do hope our North American members and participants had an enjoyable and peaceful Thanksgiving.
We are into the final stretch! It's hard to believe we are at the year's end and this will be the last Director's Corner that you might see from me before the New Year. I guess it depends on how diligent I am on December 31st...
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November brought Kantara's official speaking engagements to a close for the year, tho' we are aware that our members continue to sponsor events right through to the end of the year.Happy Holidays everyone and best wishes for a fruitful and fulfilling 2019!
It's New Year's eve as I write 2018's last Director's Corner on a cloudy but mild winter's day. I hope your weather - be it searing heat in Australia or freezing cold in our most northern climes - has not deterred you from having some well deserved rest, recreation and catch-up time with family and friends.
10 days ago in London, that was exactly the case, as the Gluu World Tour rolled into town and met up with Open Consent Group and other Kantara members for an extended Christmas lunch. It was great to reflect on the year after having just returned from Brussels where Kantara Programs Manager Ruth and I had been been forward planning Kantara Initiative Europe's 2019 European Union H2020 grant funded NGI_Trust project with other consortia members GEANT, Fraunhofer, Tecnalia , EFIS and EDN. When the call opens in February to European-based entities, you'll see our KIPI R&D submission process re-purposed for use in Europe that, together with our deep relationship with communities doing ground-breaking work in the digital identity, access and privacy-preserving domains, is the reason Kantara was invited to join this consortium in an already highly successful call.
Kantara is deep into 2019 planning mode with discussions underway with conference organizers and the Leadership Council discussing the composition of the Work Groups and their deliverables including, for any resulting resource gaps, locating sources of funding.
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The month ended with a Tweet to officially announce success for Kantara Initiative, Europe in a consortium together with members and friends for a European H2020 grant funding project called NGI_TRUST . This is a perfect fit for the Kantara community of experts innovators and visionaries working on privacy and trust enhancing technologies for the Next Generation Internet. Look out for the first call for proposals in February 2019.
Look past December and into January 2019, I will be in Washington DC supporting our KIPI Program partners at the DHS S&T Cybersecurity and Innovation Showcase for the week commencing January 7th and available for meetings with you or your colleagues in the DC area. Please just Contact us to reserve a meeting time.
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