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Looking Ahead to 2013

January 11, 2013 By Kaliya Young Leave a Comment

The month of January I’m spending at home in the Bay Area and focused on a few key things:

Working with Phil Wolff and Jean Russell on key systems for the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium with an emphasis on the Startup Circle, Personal Cloud Gathering around the country, Educational Seminars and preparing to launch the Open Protocol Wire (to track all the open protocols relevant to the emerging space).

Doing year long planning and business development for the Unconference design, facilitation and production company with Bill Aal, Jennifer Holmes and Jean Russell.

Visioning how all the interests and themes I have been engaged with in my life’s work are woven together in this coming year – a few more posts will follow to share current ideas/reflections.

The year will include:

Focusing on my personal human form sustainability and happiness.

Including making space for bodily healing and regeneration
moving and exercising
growing my relationships with my chosen family
spending quality and extended time with good friends
making time for my art
creating a beautiful and nurturing home environment
having time to think and be away from home
completing life homework (paperwork) that has been put off to long
consciously connecting to my spiritual self
reflecting and connecting with my ancestors and sharing more about them online

Growing the Personal Data Ecosystem into a Thriving Community and Organization Supporting it.

Spending more time with the Personal Data Ecosystem startups and growing the number we serve.
Offering Seminars to get individuals, companies and funders up to speed.
Getting great informational synthesis systems in place for news updates, white papers, events etc.
Developing peer educational opportunities across the ecosystem (podcasts, webinars etc).
Growing the number of Personal Cloud Meetups happening
Helping coordinate joint activities and conversations including engaging with governments as they look at regulation.
Working with Evan Prodromo and others on making real mutli-code base, open standards based interoperable Federated Social Web.
Developing some socially responsible investing SRI and Corporate Social Responsibility guidelines for technology that go beyond “is the electricity in your data center green”
Figuring out how

Engaging with the NSTIC process including attending the Phoenix meeting in early February (you are invited too).

Working with Aestetix on the NymRights efforts within and beside NSTIC.
Completing the work of the holistic picture subcommittee I lead and seeing what is next.
Working on getting citizen advocates who are diverse engaged in the process
Continuing to advocate for and provide ideas about how to actually put into practice inclusive, easy to participate in processes for NSTIC that get input from a broad range of stakeholders AND create enough space for industry folks used to enterprise identity management to actually “get” that this isn’t about employee provisioning and termination.
Inviting a focus within NSTIC to listening and responding to the complex system of the existing and emerging identity ecosystem rather then pursuing “plans” developed in committees of self appointed experts.
Considering running again for the NSTIC Management Council seat in the elections coming up this spring.

Connecting & working with Young Global Leaders and WEF

Summer -> Fall Talks/Plans

June 3, 2012 By Kaliya Young Leave a Comment

Today is my first talk for the summer. I am speaking at the Berkeley Cybersalon with a great cast of characters. Lost and Found on the Social Web.
I head to Europe on Wednesday; you can see the outline for that trip here: European Travel and Podcasts this Summer
I return on the 27th and speak the next day at the SDForum Women’s SIG on the topic of Women, Identity and Data – exploring what women want in these realms. It will be interactive.
I will be travelling to Portland for the Community Leadership Summit on July 14 and 15th along with my Unconference.net partner Bill Aal.
I head to Denver/Vail for the Cloud Identity Summit July 16-19th and will be giving the closing Keynote with Bob Blakley on Identity and Social Justice.
The WEF Young Global Leader Silicon Valley Summit 2.0: Shaping the future of entrepreneurship and innovation is July 25-27th. You can see the outline of the program here – it focuses on Google, Facebook and Zynga. I’m hoping we can also connect with some open source and open standards efforts.
August is currently open and will likely involve a trip to/through the NorthWest (Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Salt Spring, Hollyhock)
September is “Summer Davos” in China where there may be some programmatic activity covering the Personal Data Ecosystem.
October is the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation national conference in Seattle. I plan to put in a proposal/workshop covering online identity and the nuances/issues surrounding it. For those of you who have been tracking my work, this community is the world’s leading forum (+Canadian Equivalent C2D2) for truly innovative, deliberative public methods that provide the opportunity for collective wisdom to come forward. It is these types of methods that we need to solve the “NSTIC governance” challenges relative to a complex system. I worked with one of their leading members, Tom Atlee, founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute, on the chapter in my NSTIC response about governance.
The INTERNET IDENTITY WORKSHOP is October 23-25!
We are working with the W3C on having the Federated Social Web Summit be the day before October 22nd somewhere near IIW.
Identity.Next in The Hague is Nov 21-22; hopefully it will have an unconference within it.
I have been invited to speak in Brussels on November 29th.

European Travel and Podcasts this Summer

June 3, 2012 By Kaliya Young Leave a Comment

I’m heading to Europe on Wednesday. The travel plans and events are below. One of the main reasons I am going is to connect with the people and communities in Europe working on identity and personal data. I want to come back with about 10 podcasts recorded with key people from the community that I meet along the way – these will be edited on my return and posted on the web publicly.
I will also be inviting/encouraging participation with PDEC in the two main ways we have so far to engage.
* If you are a startup or a proejct focused on how people are in charge of their personal data you can apply to be part of the Startup Circle.
* If you are in an enterprise or just interested you can subscribe to the Journal.
Please don’t be afraid to reach out and connect with me if you are in Europe or know some folks in Europe I should be sure to connect with on this trip. Kaliya@pde.cc txt:510472-9069 Skype: Identitywoman
TRAVEL PLANS:

June 7th I arrive in London and have meetings/social things
June 11th is an Identity, Personal Data & Personal Clouds Unconference I am facilitating and Tony Fish is organizing – You’re INVITED!
June 12th is the OIX Event
June 12-13th is New Digital Economics
June 14th is WEF Tiger Team Day
June 15-17 Netherlands
June 18-19 is the Digital Enlightenment Forum
June 20th I plan to travel to Paris
I might travel to Geneva..
June 25-27th in Berlin
June 27th I fly out of Berlin to SF.

Upcoming Travel and Events – March is busy!

February 6, 2012 By Kaliya Young Leave a Comment

I have made a resolution for the new year to blog more about things I am thinking about and working on along with where I will be and where I have been.
The big news from last week was the coming IPO of Facebook and the release of how the NSTIC Pilots will work [PDF]. They are going to grant 10 million dollars and the first deadline is March 7th.
So this coming month is quiet until the 3rd week. Then there is the Personal Archiving conference and an event about a new reputation system.
ID Collaboration Day is happening February 27th the Monday of RSA week. We are expecting a good group from a range of organizations. We are in the same venue as last year Blacklight Ventures at Mission and South Van Ness. IIW/Identity Commons is collaborating with Kantara Initiative and OASIS IDTrust. I suspect that NSTIC will be a major topic of conversation.

Ping Identity is having its major party on Monday evening at the ROE Night club upstairs lounge at 651 Howard starting at 9pm.
Strata is also this week – O’Reilly’s data conference. I spoke at their online conference in the summer on personal data running a good panel with a highly relevant introduction and well faciltiated panel on personal data that I helped pull together. I submitted several different proposals touching on different aspects of data and people and the technologies developing in the ecosystem. Apparently non-qualified but then O’Reilly and company are still trying to find women speakers who are qualified for their events (they talked about it at two events I facilitated/attended in January the Community Leadership Summit West and She’s Geeky in January). I am honestly confused and didn’t submit any proposals to OSCON in part for this reason.
Then it is SXSW. I am flying out on Wednesday with my long time friend Axil who is getting of an airplane form Asia that day. I will be there until Sunday. Saturday Mike Shwartz from Gluu is hosting what look to be good community connecting events.

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Personal Data Lightning Round
Date: Saturday March 10 from 1pm – 3pm
Lunch will be served at this informal lightning round. If you want to present your product, service or project in 5 minutes, stop by and drop your name in the hat. 12-15 lucky individuals, selected at random, will get the spotlight from 1:30 – 3:00. Topics must be personal data or identity related. If you go over 5 minutes you’ll be pelted by the audience with foam icosahedron stress balls.
Identity Biergarten
Date: Saturday March 10 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm
German inspired malted beverages and other refreshments from local producers will be served at this informal identity and personal data networking event. Date: Saturday March 10 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Sunday I fly to London for the Gartner Identity and Access Management Conference where I will be keynoting Monday the 12th at the end of the day. My talk is going to cover the Identity Spectrum and how Personal Data tools and services can reduce the toxic issues for companies storing personal data about people.
I fly to DC on the 13th and attend the 2nd day of the NIST-IDTrust conference on the 14th. Then the OASIS IDTrust Steering Committe has a face to face meeting on the 15th and I fly back to my home in the Bay Area.
On the 16th Friday I fly to Australia and land on the 18th Sunday in the morning. My cousin’s (my dad’s sister’s kids will pick me up and I am taking the family photos I have from our shared grandparents house down with me). I am speaking at Digital Identity World Australia on the 20th and working with Steve Wilson on an IIW like conference either on the 19th or 22nd. I am flying back on the 23rd to SFO (I so wish I could stay longer).
There is “tiger team day” just before the STL-Partners New Digital Economics event that should be a good event covering the emerging ecosystem.
Between now and then we will publish two more Personal Data Frontiers (we are thinking about changing the name to Journal) and I am working on a jointly published report with STL-Partners on the Personal Data Ecosystem Landscape.
Then…its April and the Nonprofit Technology Conference a talk for Nuestar in a speakers series they have and I will be watching the European Identity & the Cloud Conference with interest.
IIW #14 is happening May 1-3 – early bird registration is Open.

Recent Activity Pt 2: Canada & Boston

November 27, 2011 By Kaliya Young 2 Comments

Immediately following IIW (post here). I headed to Canada to speak at the International Women in Digital Media Summit.

The iWDMS brings together professionals from traditional and digital media communities, as well as educational/research institutions from around the world. With high level keynotes, cross-sector dialogue, expert panelists, controversial debates and structured networking, the Summit will promote knowledge-sharing, and will explore innovation, skills gaps, policy and research in digital media–including gaming, mobile, and social media–and the impacts on and advancements by women globally.
I gave an “Ideas and Inspiration” talk for 20 min about the Personal Data Ecosystem called The Old Cookies are Crumbling: How Context & Persona aware personal data servcies change everything and will transform the world and was also on a panel about New Media Literacies.
There are a few things I took away from this event:
1) Countries like Canada are very small with just 30 million people and the center of commercial/intellectual life in Toronto an event like this really brings together a core group of high profile women in the media production business that represents much of the industry.
2) Both the government of Canada, provinces like Ontario and universities like Ryerson are very serious about attracting and retaining top technology and media talent with a variety of tax and investment incentives.
3) See point (1) because of that …one must think internationally about appeal and distribution of any media across the whole world not just one market.
4) The way they talk about diversity used lang had language I never heard before the term “designated groups” included folks with disabilities, first nations people (in the US they would be “American Indians”), women, and ethnic minorities.
5) The idea that people shouldn’t be stalked around the web to “monetize” them was new and provoked some thinking amongst those who made their living developing metrics.
It was great to connect to Canada again and I hope that with the IIW coming up in Toronto in February some of the women who I met there can attend and consider how media can change with new tools for people to manage their identity and data.
I got to meet up with Aran Hamilton (@Aranh) who coordinated efforts around the NSTIC of Canada in Toronto. We outlined the possibility of a Satellite IIW in Toronto and I learned more about what is going on there. Basically up to point (1) above…Canada is small. 95% of people have a bank account and of that something like 85% have accounts with one of 5 banks (Bank of Montreal, Toronto Dominion Bank/Canada Trust, CIBC, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotia Bank) and there are 3 telco’s. So it seems like getting an NSTIC like system in place in Canada could involves meetings with a few dozen people. They have the added advantage that Canadians have a higher trust in their government and institutions like banks and telco’s and have fewer “privacy rights” organizations. So our IIW should be interesting and I hope that we can get some good cross over between the January 17th event in DC and this one.

After Toronto headed to the 4th MassTLC Innovation Unconference. It was great to be joined by Briana Cavanaugh who is working with me now at UnConference.net. The community was thriving and it was the biggest ever unconference that I have run at 800 people and lots of sessions. Jason Calacanis who apparently has relocated to Boston was there. Jeff Taylor was there and had a rocking “un-official” after party that he DJ’ed. The most notable costume was a guy in a suit with a 99% on his forehead. Yes Occupy Wall Street became a halloween costume.