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<p>Are you able to view the links below? If not, please contact Dervla O'Reilly, dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org <br>
We encourage you to forward this to your colleagues. </p>
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FEATURES THIS MONTH
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<li><a href="#1">MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">NEWLY FORMED GROUPS</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">UPDATE FROM DISCUSSION AND WORK GROUPS</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">SPOTLIGHT ON PAUL MADSEN</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">BLOG HOTSPOT</a></li>
<li><a href="#6">SOCIAL NETWORKING</a></li>
<li><a href="#7">PRESS RELEASES</a></li>
<li><a href="#8">UPCOMING EVENTS</a></li>
<li><a href="#9">SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES</a></li>
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<a name="1">MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT</a>
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<p>TBD.</p>
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<p>Please contact dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org with questions. </p>
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NEWLY FORMED GROUPS
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<p>Two recent groups of interest: the Telecommunications Identity Work Group (WG) and the Mind The Gap Discussion Groups (DG) were launched recently.<strong> </strong><br><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/telcoid">DG - Telecommunications Identity</a><br>
<p>The ultimate goal of the Telecommunications Identity (TelcoID) Work Group is to help reconciling fragmented efforts in the telco specifications development area and in the telco market place regarding identity management. In order to achieve that, it will act as a forum to facilitate the dialog between Kantara Initiative and the telco industry sector. Additionally, it will produce telco specific technical material on top of Kantara Initiative specifications as necessary to ensure proper implementation of suitable Kantara Initiative technologies in a telco infrastructure.</p><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/mtg">DG - Mind The Gap</a><br>
<p>The ID Legal – Map the Gap Discussion Group (MtG DG) is a collaboration between the ID Commons (IDC) (1) Identity and Legal Communities Cross Pollination Group (ID Legal) (2) and Participants within various Kantara Initiative Working Groups. The focus of the MtG DG is on a