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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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I'm writing this on a cold but sunny winter's day in England. Nearly a foot of snow still covers the ground after two days of bad weather. Of course the temperatures and snow are nothing compared to the polar vortex that our community colleagues have had to endure in North America or, with knowing smiles, our Northern Europe colleagues who live with snow as part of everyday life.
Is it just Kantara or is it everywhere? I can't recall such a turbo-start to a year. Right from the first working days in January, it has been full-on! Days are full of packed calls, proposals, meetings and interest from all corners of the world and in all aspects of our operations and community activity. While the weather extremes continue to impact our members around the globe be it with searing heat and bush fires in Australia, unseasonal heat and peat fires in the north of England, or heavy dumps of snow in the US (even snow in Las Vegas!) the digital identity and personal data privacy domains stepped up a gear as the conference year gets into full swing.
February enabled Kantara's Assurance program to show the results of the weeks of intense activity in the Assurance Review Board with 2 major announcements.........................
In Europe, much of January was taken up with adding the final touches to Kantara Initiative Europe's 2019 European Union H2020 grant funded NGI_Trust project with other consortia members GEANT, Fraunhofer, Tecnalia, EFIS and EDN. This first call opened February 1st and closes April 30th. Regardless of whether you are a European based individual, research institute, start-up or mature company that is building solutions for the Next Generation Internet, we need your help to make those solutions humancentric by developing them to be both scalable as well as privacy and trust enhancing. It doesn't end there however. During January, Kantara Europe has been working with two other consortia to prepare bids for further grant H2020 funding. I'll keep you posted on our progress.
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