Below is a call for participation sent to the Kantara community@ list by Ari Kermaier, co-chair of the Interoperability Review Board. Please feel free to pass this note on to colleagues or friends who may be interested. —————————————————- The Kantara Initiative is expanding its focus beyond SAML 2.0 and is working to cultivate and manage more…
Frank Villavicencio, Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG) chair, has posted a very interesting 2 part blog article called “Identity Assurance, an everyday life issue”. In this 2 part series of articles Frank provides an excellent overview of Identity Assurance concepts as well as examples of how Identity Assurance applies to everyday life experiences. more…
Congratulations to John Fraser of MEDNETWorld.com, Rick Moore of eHealth Ohio & Pete Palmer of Surescripts. All three gentlemen will continue to serve this year as co-leading chairs for Kantara Initiative’s Healthcare Identity Assurance WG. Previously, John, Rick and Pete led Liberty Alliance’s Healthcare SIG. We look forward to more great work to come more…
Diverse Market Leaders from the Identity Ecosystem Converge to Stage Kantara Initiative’s RSA Security Pre-Conference Workshop on “Technology, Policy and Compliance for Identity Services in 2010 and Beyond” Gain State-of-Identity Insight of common Cloud/SaaS scenarios and recent developments in assurance, multi-protocol interoperability, privacy-enablement and more from Enterprise and Consumer Market Leaders. Piscataway, NJ, 8 February more…
We’re happy to announce the continued leadership of Philippe Clement as Kantara Initiative’s Identity Provider Selection Working Group Chair. Philippe works at Orange-FT Group and has been involved with Kantara Initiative since it’s inception as Chair of the Identity Provider Selection WG. In previous years, Philippe actively worked with the Business Marketing Expert Group (BMEG) more…
Organization: Kantara Initiative Job Title: Executive Director Job Type: Full Time Contractor Date Posted: February 6, 2010 To Apply: Send a cover letter and resume to ksearch@elists.isoc.org Description: The Executive Director (ED) of the Kantara Initiative is responsible for the successful operation of the organization, including aspects of Operations, Strategy, Business Development, Member Relations, and more…
FuGen Solutions joins Kantara Initiative’s annual identity workshop at the RSA Conference, March 1, 2010, 8am-5pm. NTT, Ping Identity and the U.S. Government showcase demonstration pods alongside FuGen Solutions. Join us for a series of presentations, panels & demonstrations of common Cloud/SaaS scenarios from diverse market leaders. Register now for our free workshop using the more…
Colin Wallis from the New Zealand Government’s Department of Internal Affairs joins this episode of the Identity Matters Podcast. As the Kantara Initiative eGovernment Work Group Chair, he provides an overview of what the group is doing. He talks about how the adoption of the initial eGov Profile has spurred on development of version 2. more…
We’re happy to announce the continued leadership of Kenji Takahashi as Kantara Initiative’s Japan WG (Working Group) Chair. Mr. Takahashi of NTT has worked with Kantara Initiative since it’s launch alongside Toshihiro Suzuki of Oracle Corporation as co-chair of the Japan WG. Kenji also leads the Japan Discussion Group for Kantara. Both Kenji and Toshihiro have more…
We’re happy to announce Bob Pinheiro as Kantara Initiative’s Consumer Identity WG Chair. Bob has been active with Kantara Initiative since it’s inception and in previous years with Liberty Alliance chairing the Identity Theft Prevention Group. Congratulations to Bob, we’re looking forward to all of the excellent work to come out of the Consumer Identity more…