“What is UMA and why do we need it?”

In a nutshell, User-Managed Access (UMA) is…

UMA is needed by…

• Individuals, to give them a “personal data concierge” that handles requests for access to their online data, content, and services
• Websites, to enable them to offer sophisticated data-sharing features to their users without having to implement those features natively
• Online identity providers, to offer their users the ability to set access policies from a single place even if those users engage with dozens or hundreds of sites and apps on a regular basis

This webinar will…

• Discuss real-life use cases for UMA
• Demonstrate UMA implementations
• Review UMA’s architecture and its relationship to the OAuth and OpenID Connect specifications

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UMA WG details

Join us for our one-day Identity Summit at the Smart Card Alliance Conference. This Summit will contain presentations, panels and discussion from diverse market leaders discussing industry efforts focused on governance, assurance, certification and in particular how this relates to NSTIC. Learn about current progress and new community efforts underway.

What: Kantara Initiative Identity Summit
When: Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 8:00am-4:00pm
Where: Ronald Reagan Center, Washington D.C., USA (at the Smart Card Alliance Conference 2011)
Complimentary Registration: http://www.cvent.com/d/7dqh6r – please use the code “KW24″ to attendance to the Kantara Summit only. Please select the “One-Day Pre-Conference Workshop” option when registering.

Agenda: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Kantara+Initiative+Summit+2011+11+01

Contact Dervla O’Reilly, dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org with questions.

Trust and usability are prerequisites for the development of commercial, administrative, social media and other e-services. To enable trust and usability today, secure and easy-to-use e-identification is in the users, service providers and the public interest. Identity federation is a solution that is now beginning to spread and gain in importance.

An identity federation is an association of organizations that have agreed to rely on each others’ electronic identities to facilitate user access and protect personal privacy when using electronic services.

During this workshop, participants will review practical experience in developing and establishing identity federation. Target groups for the workshop are the organizations which operate or plan to establish identity federation, email service providers, credential service providers/identity providers.

Agenda
09:00 Introduction – Presentation of participants: Kantara Initiative – The Bridge to Communities Assurance, Governance and Technical Interoperability
Joni Brennan, Executive Director of Kantara Initiative

10:00 SWAMID – Swedish Academic Identity
Leif Johansson, SUNET

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Kalmar2 and eduGAIN, international collaborations in the Federation area
Valter Nordh, SUNET / GU

11:30 Local Authorities in England (KSL)
Karin Bengtsson, Head of IT Forum (KSL), Stefan Svensson, IT Strategist, City of Stockholm, and Björn Söderlund, IT strategist Lidingö City

12:00 Case Study – Pharmacy Services Ltd
Speakers from the Pharmacy Service AB

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Swedish e-identification
Nils Fjelkegård, E-ID Board

14:00 Market – users and email service providers’ preferences
Staffan Hagnell,. SE
Summary – Is it time to add the next gear in our identity federation?
Thomas Nilsson, Certezza

14:30 Coffee

15:00 Common discussion – Identity federation for what and whom?
The discussion is led by Rolf Lysell, Innotiimi AB
- For which services and users?
- What are the opportunities for cooperation and how we continue the work?

17:00 End

Event details: http://bit.ly/nwzIC9
Complimentary Registration
Location: Finlandshuset Konferens, Snickarbacken 4, Stockholm

Registration is open for the Kantara Initiative meeting Oct 20-21, 2011. Much thanks to CA who will host us at their training office in Redwood City, CA, USA.

We invite you to join us at our 2-day event where Kantara’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Leadership Council (LC), Discussion Groups (DGs) and Working Groups (WGs) will convene.

Take advantage of the early bird registration which is available until September 23, 2011. With our pricing structure, you can sign up for 1 day or the full event. See the current agenda and specific event logistics in detail at our events wiki space.

We look forward to seeing you in the Bay Area.

Registration: http://kantararedwoodcitymtg.eventbrite.com

User-Managed Access (UMA) lets web application creators easily craft systems that give control of data back to the people. Any web-based data ecosystem can leverage UMA, including eHealth and eGov portals, social networking sites, photo sharing portals, and personal data stores. It offers individuals centralized security, privacy, and control for sharing data with friends and family, business associates, and organizations. And it allows apps to offer sophisticated privacy and sharing options without a lot of software development. One UMA implementation, the SMART system from Newcastle University, leverages Facebook friends for sharing; others could use the new Google+ Circles system, which allows sharing within circles of contacts.

The audio and video recording of the UMA webinar from July 13 is available at http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/Home or http://bit.ly/UMAWebinar110713

“Like” UMA on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/UserManagedAccess.

Follow the group on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/umawg and hashtag #UMAWG.

We invite you to join us for our the Kantara & OpenID Summit, July 19.  Kantara Initiative and the OpenID Foundation are organizations dedicated to providing platforms and resources for the growth and enrichment of the identity landscape.

This Summit will contain presentations and panels from diverse market leaders discussing industry efforts focussed on protocols such as OpenID and UMA and their use in the Enterprise. Learn about current progress and new community efforts from both organizations.

When: July 19, 8am-1pm

Where: Keystone Conference Center, Colorado at the Cloud Identity Summit

Free Registration: http://www.cloudidentitysummit.com/register.cfm

Agenda: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47186071

Kantara Initiative is pleased to announce the formation of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Discussion Group (NSTIC DG) which will author the Kantara Initiative response to the recent NSTIC Notice of Inquiry (NOI) [1] as its first order of business. To provide a comprehensive multi-stakeholder response, it is anticipated that this DG will be comprised of representatives from communities including: international, industry, governance, analyst, user-centric, consumer, public policy and privacy.

Schedule:
Due to the NSTIC NOI due date of July 22 the NSTIC DG will seek to kick of this week on Thursday or Friday (June 23rd or 24th). Times will be circulated to the dg-nstic@kantarainitiative.org list tomorrow. Ultimately, this group would seek to regularly meet regularly on Tuesdays.  Stay tuned to the groups calendar for the schedule.

The purpose of the NSTIC discussion group is to provide a centralized Kantara Initiative Discussion Group to facilitate:

• feedback to Notices of Inquiry and/or comment periods
• planning of NSTIC focused workshops or event sessions and speakers
• possible development of position papers

For more information on the NSTIC DG, please visit the home page: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/nstic/Home

• Join the NSTIC DG: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/?selectedGroup=30
• Review the Charter: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/nstic/Charter
• Mail list and Archives: http://kantarainitiative.org/pipermail/dg-nstic/
• Copyright Policy: Kantara Initiative IPR Policy – Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution

[1] http://www.nist.gov/nstic/nstic-frn-noi.pdf

We welcome your participation!

Catch up the on the Trust Framework Model & IdM Summit presentations from our day at the EIC Conference last week.

• Introduction Opening Kantara Initiative Overview – Matthew Gardiner - slides
• Session 1: Open Identity Trust Framework Model, Kantara IAF, Assurance Certification & OIX Listing Service and Success Stories, Kantara and OIX full scale solution – John Bradley & Don Thibeau - slides
• Session 2: Privacy Framework overview and value proposition – Colin Wallis (on behalf of Mark Lizar) - slides
• Session 3a: Info Sharing and Individual Trust Frameworks – Iain Henderson – slides
• Session 3b: eGovernment Commonalities within Europe and beyond – Colin Wallis & Fulup Ar Foll - slides
• Session 4: TelCo Requirements on IdM Systems & Massively Scaleable IdM Architecture for TelCos – Ingo Friese & Fulup Ar Foll - slides
• Session 5: TAS3 – Trusted Architecture for Secure Shared Services (with Privacy) and Personal Data Store – Sampo Kellomaki - slides

The early bird registration deadline ends this Friday April 15, 2011 for the Kantara meeting in Berlin May 16-18, 2011.  We have a new pricing structure where you can sign up for 1 day or the full event. See the current agenda and specific event logistics in detail at our events wiki space.

This is a 3-day event where Kantara’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Leadership Council (LC), Discussion Groups (DGs) and Working Groups (WGs) will convene.

We also invite you to join us for our dinner on Tuesday, May 17 at the Brauhaus Lemke for a fun evening.

We look forward to seeing you in Berlin.

When: May 13, 2011, 9am-2pm

Where: Dolce Ballhaus Forum, Andreas-Danzer-Weg, 85716 Unterschleißheim, Munich, Germany (at the European Identity Conference 2011).

What: 2011 brings new opportunities for identity services in the enterprise & consumer markets. Gain state-of-identity insight through a series of presentations of common scenarios from diverse market leaders.

Join us at this jointly produced Summit where we will focus on the Trust Framework Model and explain in detail how this model works to solve many issues surrounding identity with special regard to governments and private sector success stories, use cases and projects. The Trust Framework Model is technology agnostic and provides a means for varying current and emerging technologies, governments and organizations to assure trust through certified credential issuance.

Additionally, the event will present IdM related discussions and particularly highlight Telecommunications industry concerns and activities.

We are also looking forward to hearing feedback and questions from the audience as input to the discussions.

Free Registration: http://www.kuppingercole.com/events/kis2011 – click the ‘Register Now For Free’ button upper right corner

Agenda: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Kantara+Initiative+Summit+2011+05+13