Welcome to the Identity Woman Blog
I am an advocate for the rights and dignity of our digital selves.
Where I am in the World
Latest Media & Papers
Posts about Identity & NSTIC
Organizations and Events I share leadership in
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Where I am in the World:
I live on the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay.
I’m not traveling that much. I will be attending the Young Global Leaders Summit in August.
Internet Identity Workshop October 27-29 in Mountain View
The amazing workshop I founded to make user-centric ID real.
Latest Media with Me:
Quoted in Guardian Article about Ellen Pao: ‘What did you expect?’ Women in tech reflect on Ellen Pao’s exit from Reddit.
Open protocols and open people: preserving the transformational potential of social media An article on Open Democracy in the Transformation section I was invited to write by Michael Edwards.
NSTIC in Tech President: In Obama Administration’s People-Powered Digital Security Initiative, There’s Lots of Security, Fewer People
Article on the BC eID Citizen Engagement Panel in Re:ID. PDF: reid_spring_14-BC
Fast Company Live Chat: On Taking Back Your Data
Fast Company: World Changing Ideas of 2014: You Will Take your Data Back
My Papers:
- I wrote a response to the NSTIC Notice of Inquiry about Governance. This covers that covers much of the history of the user-centric community my vision of how to grow consensus. Most important for my NSTIC candidacy are the chapters about citizen’s engagement in the systems co-authored with Tom Atlee the author of the Tao of Democracy and the just published Empowering Public Wisdom.
Posts about Identity:
- Want to know what originally inspired and continues to inspire my work – check out this paper on Planetwork: The Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next Generation Internet – Published in 2003 (written in 2002).
- NymWars – My Personal Saga with Google in the [psuedo] NymWars to use the name I choose on their service – annotation of all my posts.
- My speech at the Digital Privacy Forum in January 2011 articulating a vision that goes beyond “Do-Not-Track” vs. Business as Usual, creating a new ecosystem where people collect their own data.
Posts on NSTIC:
- HOPE-X Presentation. Slideshare. Resources on my Site
- NSTIC in Tech President: In Obama Administration’s People-Powered Digital Security Initiative, There’s Lots of Security, Fewer People
- National! Identity! Cyberspace! Why we shouldn’t freak about NSTIC on my Fast Company blog.
- I wrote a response to the NSTIC Notice of Inquiry about Governance. This covers that covers much of the history of the user-centric community my vision of how to grow consensus. Most important for my NSTIC candidacy are the chapters about citizen’s engagement in the systems co-authored with Tom Atlee the author of the Tao of Democracy and the just published Empowering Public Wisdom.
- NSTIC Privacy workshop presentation by me in June of 2011
- Participatory Totalitarianism! – My TEDxBrussels Talk about how if we don’t get this NSTIC stuff right we will end up in a really creepy world. It references my struggles with Google+ to use the name I chose for my online self.
Organizations and Events I share leadership in:
- I founded She’s Geeky a women’s only unconfernece for those in Technology and STEAM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math)
- I am the co-founder of The Leola Group We are building cool things and working to transform the internet.
- I founded and was Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium a community of over 60 companies from around the world working on building personal clouds and services. We contributed to the World Economic Forum Rethinking Personal Data Project reports. Dean Landsman is now taking over leading the organization.
- I co-founded, co-produce and co-facilitate the Internet Identity Workshop #20 is April -9 in Mountain View, CA. This conference has focused on User-Centric Identity since 2005.
- I am a steward of Identity Commons which keeps all the organizations and groups working on user-centric identity linked together.
- I serve on the Board of Patient Privacy Rights.
- I am the volunteer network director at Planetwork.net the civil society organization I have been affiliated with since 2003.
- I co-founded Digital Death Day and work with that community to continue to host events on the issue. You can see a video of me talking at Privacy Identity and Innovation about this. The next conference is in London on October 6th.
- I own a business Unconference.net that designs and facilitates participant driven events for a range of clients (IIW, She’s Geeky and Digital Death Day are all Unconferences).
Kudos’ to you, Kaliya. I really like what you are doing to further the awareness of securing our identities in cyberspace. Have you looked into the FIDO Alliance and the new U2F and UAF user authentication standards? We are a FIDO-certified Authentication Platform and we are seeing a fairly significant groundswell of support for FIDO across a variety of industries, starting with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Alibaba, DropBox, GitHub, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and hundreds more. Do you have an opinion or experience with FIDO?
FIDO is a universal second factor model that enables users to “bring their own security”, consolidate their logins, etc. using basic USB FiDO Keys (now available on Amazon). You can also eliminate passwords altogether using a biometric device with an embedded FIDO Key, such as the Nymi ECG Biometric Wristband.
Over the last 2 years, we pivoted our platform to address the lack of security in the Internet of Things and have solutions for IoT product makers to embed security at the core fo their Smart-whatever products.
We pioneered the One-Time Password Display card and now make a contactless FIDO Key card that can be issued as a payment card, employee ID or student ID/Payment/Authenticator all-in-one card. Maybe UT would be interested?
I recently met Mike Garcia of NIST/NSTIC at the Cloud Identity Summit 2016 in New Orleans and he is very interested in FIDO and our authentication solutions. You probably know him.
I will be following you on Twitter. Glad to find you. Maybe we can chat soon.
Best regards,
Kevin