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4) Globally, add in the COVID effect - more people needing more access to more services online - in healthcare, in Education, in Financial Services, in Government services, in essence everywhere. And you there you have it. The perfect storm that is evidenced by the increasing adoption of Kantara's Trust Framework and in particular 800-63-3 (most cases at IAL2 and AAL2) .
Thank you for rejoining ID Crowd! It's great to have you back, as we celebrate the renewals from the Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand Government, Board Director digi.me, Accredited Assessor Zygma, Patient Centric Solutions, and NeoCapita in Australia.
Members will be aware of the Board's proposal to consider adding all four Directors-at-Large candidates to the Board. An There's a sense of this phenomenon emerging in membership too. Please join me in welcoming new members Beruku Identity from the UK, and the Digital Identification Bureau from Papua New Guinea. Thanks to the continued support from renewing members Board Director holding the Presidency, IDEMIA, MIT Trust :: Data Consortium, Accredited Assessor KUMA, Accredited Assessor Seadot from Sweden, and Individual Contributors Janelle Allen, Lisa LeVasseur and Ross Foard. Thank you all! It's great to have you back.
The All-Member-Ballot for the complete slate will arrive in your Inbox later this week. Should the All-Member-Ballot be successful, all four will join the Board. The Board continues to develop action plans on its priority areas to pivot the organization onto both its revised mission - to grow and fulfill the market for trustworthy use of identity and personal data - and that builds towards its vision to see the equitable and transparent exchange of identity and personal data for mutual value. Finally, Ken Dagg has joined the Staff cohort to pick up the Board Secretariat duties in a very busy period of transition for the Board.slate of 4 Directors-at-Large was successful, and were fully engaged on the February Board call. some have settled into the Board priority areas and I'll keep you updated on progress there.
Kantara community Groups and staff alike, had packed agendas over January. Kantara joined forces with the Future Identity Council (FIC) to submit a detailed response to AAMVA's RFI regarding setting up a Digital Trust Service, essentially a public key store, in their pursuit of rolling out mDL across the US, though a sizable portion of our joint response was directed to what global mDL Governance might look like (think ICAO for passports for a sense of the scale). Given how busy both organizations were, FIC's Gail Hodges and myself brought it home largely ourselves (the exception being the Privacy questions - thank you again John Wunderlich!) within the very tight timeframe. Both organizations will use February to play it back into our respective communities to ensure that we captured your perspectives correctly, and if not, make any changes known to AAMVA. And while mentioning the US, Treasury reached out to invite Kantara, along with a range of private sector companies and industry associations, to a US Financial Sector Policy Roundtable on February 9th. While unfortunately a closed session, members can take some comfort from the fact that around 25% of invited guests are Kantara members and liaisons, and are on the slate to speak (as well as Kantara itself).
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