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Hello everyone 

This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact Colin at kantarainitiative dot org.

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Welcome to May's Director's Corner! It's the Early May Bank Holiday this Monday in the UK tho' I suspect the ED's day will be much like any other regular Monday (wink). The activity in a global organization never stops and this Monday is no exception.  

I want to start this month's Director's Corner with a brief update on the status of the ED search. Following the reach-out to Members and then advertising the role on LinkedIn in late March, the Board received over 40 applications. In the past couple of weeks this total pool was reduced down to a shortlist of 5 that the Board is interviewing currently. All of these candidates are more than capable of doing the job and the process has brought about some interesting structural alternatives for the Board's consideration. The Board's job is anything but easy in making its final selection during May. An announcement will be made as soon as it can be.     

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 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 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 your activities, you have to inform it of those activities!  Finally, we have Think Digital Identity of Government UK May 21 where Kantara is participating in two panels as well as supporting the event through partnership.    

Beyond events, Kantara expects to make several important announcements in April arising from its exciting collaboration with, and between, members in different parts of the world.  If you are not a member, and don't have access to news before it breaks, sign up to receive KantaraNews and follow @KantaraNews on Twitter as well as Kantara on LinkedIn.  

As I sign off this month's post on Good Friday in the Christian calendar, I feel excited as I have just, in a different context for Kantara and another two members, finished an exciting (potentially dial-moving!) call regarding a new project.

Stay safe, get vaccinated if you can, and keep happy!  

Kind regards,

Colin

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Marketing:

Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:

  • You can always keep up with the latest news from the Work and Discussion Groups directly on the Leadership Council's Blog. See the list of public groups here.

  • As always, our Specifications, Recommendations and Reports are available for download from our Reports and Recommendations web repository - now with frictionless access.  

  • Not sure where to find things? Membership Bella, Trust Framework Operations & Assurance Director Ruth, Business Development Ambassador Chris, Board Secretariat Ken and myself, together with the Kantara IT team consisting of Sebastian and Gonzalo led by Armin are only too willing to assist.  Contact them here.

Events: See them all here! 

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