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We were thrilled to welcome LexisNexis to our membership ranks in April, joining Experian and Neustar as members from that sector of the ecosystem. Thank you! And many of you will have seen the tweet and LinkedIn post regarding members Renewing in April; 2Keys, Experian, Internet2, Verizon and individual contributor Mark King. Thank you one and all for demonstrating your support of Kantara's ethics and ethos and the activities that underpin our mission to grow and fulfil the market for trustworthy use of identity and personal data in pursuit of our vision to see equitable and transparent exchange of identity and personal data for mutual value.
March was book-ended with virtual events that featured Kantara.
The FinTechTalents Identity conference aired on March 17th. But, of course, the preparation and pre-record activity started as the month opened. I had the pleasure of moderating a panel with Dai Banerji representing Women in Identity, our friend and fellow mDL journeyer Gail Hodges from the Future Identity Council, Andrew Black from Natwest Bank, and David Pollington from the GSMA. We developed discussion themes around the topic of ‘Privacy Enhancing, Consent Based Digital Identity'. Our discussion and debate focused on three points:
- should the financial service sector embrace a decentralised ID mode;
- how we can ensure that we build Digital Identity that enhances privacy and consent as well as granting users control over how their personal credentials are shared; and
- whether users are actually ready to take control of their digital identity.
March 29-30 saw Kantara undertake something very different. We were honored to be asked to have a virtual booth in the virtual exhibit hall of the virtual ONC Annual meeting. This was a significant undertaking that we accomplished in a short time period. Kantara is indebted to members April saw more events planning activity for Kantara than we have seen in the past 12 months combined. In last month's blog I mentioned that we ran a virtual booth at the ONC Annual meeting at the end of March. We have those materials prepared by Identos, Patient Centric Solutions, Airside, ForgeRock , Tom Jones and Dr Tom Sullivan as well as non member participant Jim Kragh who prepared new videos, modified existing presentations, project managed and attended the booth over the two days. As I tweeted at the time, it was a surreal experience and, though quieter than organizers and participants alike had hoped, we were, nonetheless, delighted to receive interest and a qualified prospect for conformance to Kantara's 63-3 Class of Approval under our Identity Assurance conformity assessment and certification scheme. We will endeavour to republish the material on the website soon. April's schedule of events is a lighter lift for Kantara with its support of the FIRE WG on the website now. Check them out! April saw Kantara feature in the inaugural International Identity Management Day on April 13th and the Internet Identity Workshop 32 April 20-22 with VRM day curtain-raising on April 19. Several members are presenting sessions at IIW 32. However, I am only aware of Identos's details. They will be showcasing their work in the HealthCare space in Canada, which has received significant press coverage recently, during the Demo hour. As a reminder, if you want Kantara to amplify . Thank you Identos for your demo on your UMA deployment in healthcare in Canada and to Eve and George Fletcher for their reprise of the UMA 101 session. While on the subject of UMA, and as those who join the UMA calls already know, there's a major implementation of UMA about to unfold in Financial Services in the UK. There's much more to share regarding this in coming weeks and months, but you will get a sense of it by the addition of the new menu item on the Resources section of the website. Last but perhaps not least, if you follow me, or Ubisecure or Charly Harry Smith from the Oxford Internet Institute you may have seen the discussion and our subsequent podcast-come-fireside chat where we debated, amongst other things, whether digital identity was becoming commoditised or ubiquitous and subject to context, whether that was good or bad. I've long held the view that consumers simply want to get to the resource or entitlement and their digital identity should not cause needless friction in the process. Of course digital identity is critically important and we all expect those that manage and store our identifiers, credentials and attributes to do so securely and with privacy and personal agency as foundational. Different vendors do this with variable quality and contextual friction. But is it so terrible that some vendors prefer not to slam your digital identity in your face to re-identify you every time you begin a transaction thus making it ubiquitous as some in our industry have concerns over? I don't think so. That was the substance of the often humorous debate Charly and I were having, on a matter that may be the subject of debate for years to come.
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