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

Registration is open for the Kantara Initiative meeting May 16-18, 2011.  Much thanks to Fraunhofer FOKUS who will host us at their Institute in Charlottenburg, Berlin.

We invite you to join us at our 3-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 April 15, 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.

We look forward to seeing you in Germany.

Hear how citizens and companies do business with the government in Finland. The audio and PDF slides details citizen authentication, attributes, identity providers and various levels of authentication and authorization.

We are happy to share this special presentation deriving from the current work of Kantara Initiative’s eGovernment Work Group.

Many thanks to Keith Uber, Product Manager, Ubisecure Solutions, Inc. for this presentation.

Save the date for the next Kantara Initiative meeting to be held May 16-18, 2011.

Many thanks to our gracious hosts Fraunhofer FOKUS who will host the meeting at their institute in Charlottenburg, Berlin.

Kantara is planning a one-day Summit on May 10 at the European Identity Conference in Munich where we expect many members and participants to be in attendance.

Contact Dervla O’Reilly if you have questions regarding the meeting and are interested to participate in the May 10 Summit.

Kantara Initiative Japan Work Group (Japan WG) will host a technical seminar on Tuesday, December 14 in Tokyo, courtesy of CA Technologies Japan and other members.

When: December 14, 2010, 15:00-17:30

Where: CA Technologies Seminar Room (Tokyo, Japan)

Capacity: 30 seats (this event just reached capacity as of December 6, 2010)

Abstract: Cloud computing has focused renewed attention on “identity federation technologies” as an important part of IT security measures. This seminar will feature a practical lecture on identity federation by “GakuNin” an academic authentication federation project, and look at another case study of identity federation around egovernment area.

Details in Japanese: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/WGJ/Kantara+Initiative+Tech+Seminar+2010