Internet Identity Workshop in DC

The Internet Identity Workshop is coming to the east coast for the first time – September 9-10, 2010 in Washington DC.
The theme for the event is Open Identity for Open Government. You can learn more about the event on the IIW website and register over on this site.

Internet Identity Workshop comes to DC!

Theme: Open Identity for Open Government.

Register Here!

Internet Identity Workshop East (IIW-East) is September 9-10, 2010 in Washington DC  at the Josaphine Buttler Parks Center.  This event immediately follows the Gov 2.0 Summit.
The Internet Identity Workshop has been held semi-annually in California since the Fall of 2005. The 10th IIW was held this past May and had the largest attendance thus far. There have been many requests to have an IIW on the East coast, and now the Open Identity for Open Government Initiative is providing a timely incentive to have one in Washington.
IIWs focus is on “user-centric identity”, addressing the technical and adoption challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies, government agencies and organizations with which they interact. IIW-East will focus mainly on the government adoption of open identity technologies for use by government websites.

The event has a unique format – the agenda is created live the day of the event. This allows for the discussion of key issues, projects and a lot of interactive opportunities with key industry leaders.
The event compiles a book of proceedings with the notes that are gathered from the conference. You can find the Book of Proceedings for IIW7, IIW8,  IIW9 & IIW10 here. BTW these FOUR documents are your key to convincing your employer that this event will be valuable. As attendees register we ask about topics they wish to discuss.
Providing identity services between the general public and government websites is a different problem than providing authentication and authorization services within one or a few organizations (enterprise provisioning/termination or federation between two companies or government agencies).
As a community we are exploring these kinds of issues:

Questions Agencies Face:

• How can open identity technologies enable open government
• How can agencies leverage identity credentials generated by other organizations
• How can the government  leverage the efforts of social networking sites that offer user-centric identity credentials
• What are the advantages to agencies of adopting open identity technologies
• How can open identity technologies enable your websites to move beyond brochure-ware
• How can we increase the speed in which government organizations can benefit from the use of open identity approaches
• How to manage Federated Identity on an ever increasing scale
• What are the implications of National Strategy for existing policy mandates
• Should there be integrated political architecture
• There are five distinct Cyber Security Bills in Congress now – what are the implications

Policy  Considerations:

• The relationship between FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) and identity management
• What are the business cases for agencies to adopt Open Identity Technologies
• What are the new legal constructs that make this work
• How to use open identity technologies to preserve privacy while providing personalization
• GSA standards for the use of open identity technology
• Data Privacy Issues
• Personal Data – how is it stored and shared with end users
• How are these new approaches regulated

Technical Issues:

• Open identity standards (identity and semantic)
• What software is available to leverage open identity standards
• How different standards and technical implementations interoperate
• How agencies can accept identity credentials generated by other organizations
• How open identity technologies can enable your website to move beyond brochure ware, without using cookies
• How to leverage open identity technologies in your technology roadmap
• How to implement Federal Identity
• Tecnlogy issues involved in implementing existing Identity Management technology
• Lessons learned – what are the most effective ways for Federal Agencies to build and employ identity systems

New Industry Developments:

• Personal Data Stores/Data Banks with our digital footprints recorded
• What new Identity Management technologies are on the horizon
• National strategy for trusted identities in Cyberspace

Please join us at the Internet Identity Workshop

To consider all these and more!

It is the best place to meet and participate with all the key people and projects such as:

• OpenID
• IMI Information Cards
• GSA approved schemas for open identity protocols
• Personal Data Stores
• NIH pilot adoption of Open Identity technologies
• Certification of industry open identity credentials
• Business models for higher LOA open identity credentials
• National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace