My Government Funded Research / Reports

Kaliya Young · May 16, 2023 ·

Yes I have worked for the government as a sub-contractor (that is my contract was with a contractor who had a contract directly with the government). How did I get this sub-contract – well I was asked by a long time community member, that I trust to do research for them. This person, Anil John, also happened to work for the research wing of Department of Homeland Security called the Science and Technology Directorate (he now works for the Silicon Valley Innovation Program within the department). So yes I have worked for the government and yes I even worked for DHS but I really did the work for a human I trusted who’s work and research questions I believed in. This meant that I felt the answers would help the world be a little better and would improve the understanding of critical issues faced by the decentralized identity community/industry. All the results of all the work is public – here are all the reports. If you are “worried” about my values or my integrity because I did this work please read them before passing judgement

I worked on these first three reports with a colleague. The first one led to us getting the contract for the 2nd two.

Gaps in Government Funded Identity Research

Gaps In Government Funded Identity Research

Securing Voter Data Systems

This report was really eye opening in terms of understanding how voter registration actually works and how voting actually works. There are lots of great NGO’s working on improving our voting systems we have them all listed at the end of the report.

SecuringVoterDataReport Vescent June2019

Entities, Identities, Registries Exploring Gaps in Corporate and IoT Identity

This report really looks at how corporate and IoT identifier systems work and what gaps exist.

Entities Identities Registries VescentYoung2019

These next three reports go together. I was asked based on my group process expertise and direct experience working within “government led public private processes” that didn’t really go that well – the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.

I wrote the big report and then worked really hard to boil it down to the short version. I also found there were quite a few different process and methods that I wanted to be sure the readers of the report had access to and didn’t have to go searching the web to figure out what I was talking about. The final document at the very bottom is the Resource Version.