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This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact ED colin at kantarainitiative dot org.
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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 With Kantara's 2018 Events Map with its near-on 20 events fresh in our minds, 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.
Reflecting on 2018 from Kantara's perspective, it has been good overall. Kantara has significantly consolidated its finances over 2017, with net membership growth despite some churn.
The KIPI R&D program has seen two projects to progress through Phase 2 (Execution), with Lockstep's MDAV project already in Phase 3 Transition to Commercialisation branded as ValIDidy while Phase 3 determination on Exponent's MOB4PACS project that uses smartphones as PIV cards with NFC and BLE has been caught in the federal government shutdown. Both of these are stunningly concepted projects capable of significant commercial exploitation for the right investment partner and I will be happy to introduce interested parties.
Mid-year Kantara absorbed the assets of the IDESG largely comprising the IDEF, the self attesting Registry, the wiki, website, committee artifacts and a small group of members and non member participants following the completion of the grant funding from NIST. While the transition into the newly established Kantara Initiative Educational Foundation operated almost seamlessly thanks in particular to the efforts of Kay Chopard Cohen, Martin Smith, Tom Jones and Kantara's Oliver Maerz, activity and forward progress has been less than anticipated, with IDESG's Healthcare Committee being the standout exception as it reformed inside Kantara's Health Identity Assurance WG under Dr Tom Sullivan's exemplary leadership, contributed significant matters to the community.
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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