Identity Woman

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Presentation

DWeb 2022 Talk: Decentralized Identity Open Standards

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At the invitation of the organizers of DWeb Camp 2022, I delivered a session on the subject of three open standards for decentralized identities.

Kaliya talking at DWebCamp – clicking on photo goes to the video.

Decentralized identifiers, verifiable credentials, and decentralized identifier communication were discussed throughout this session as three of the most important developing standards for decentralized identity.

Decentralized Identifiers: I went through a variety of issues in this standard, including how a decentralized identifier (DID) differs from private name spaces and globally controlled registries, what it looks like, the standard components of a DID document, DID specifications, and more.

Verifiable Credentials: In this section, I discussed what verifiable credentials are, how they function, as well as characteristics and benefits such as extensive expressive capacity and a vast array of potential applications.

Decentralized Identifier Communication: It is also known as DIDComm Messaging, and inside it, we are able to have peer-to-peer ownership of the social graph commons. During our presentation on this protocol for decentralized identification, I went through its viability and several uses, in addition to the mechanism behind it.

To that aim, I also discussed ways in which we might integrate many of the aforementioned open standards. In addition, two more standard ideas, the “personal data store” and “object capabilities,” have been offered in the conclusion.

Here is the link to the complete video:

https://archive.org/details/25-15-45_-_decentralized_identity_open_standards.qt

Presentation: to SWIFT Innotribe (the world’s bankers)

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In September of 2019 I was invited to present to the world’s bankers at the conference run by the co-op at the center of the world’s banking system, SWIFT. The stage is fantastic 24m x 4m high. You can see SSI outlined in large details. I also cover big topics like the meaning of the word trust. Enjoy!

Acclaimed expert Kaliya Young, widely known as ‘Identity Woman’, explores the concept of self-sovereign identity (SSI) on the Innotribe stage.

My Data, My Value: 6 Sense Making Diagrams

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I was invited to present in the Personal Data Track at the Cloud Identity Summit, 2016 in New Orleans.
This is the talk I gave. It also came with a two sided 11×17 sheet with all 6 diagrams (just below).

Grace Hopper Celebration and Presentation – Ethical Market Models.

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In mid-October I had the opportunity to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing for the first time.
Here is a link to the paper that I presented – MarketModels-GHC Here are the slides

I also had the pleasure of working on a Birds of a Feather Session with Roshi from Google – she works on their identity team and was the one who asked me work on the session with her along with encouraging me submit a proposal for a lighting talk.
We had a great discussion about the internet of things and considering various ideas about what internet of things things…we might invent and how we might identify ourselves to them.
The conference is really a giant job fair for undergaduate women CS majors. There is not a lot there for mid-career women, all of the ones I spoke to felt this way.  I realize if I was a young woman….at a CS department where most everyone is a man.  Attending this event would make me feel like the whole world opened up…and anything was possible.
The event made me more committed to putting energy into helping She’s Geeky expand and serve more cities and more women and particularly those who are at high risk of leaving the industry – those who have been in the industry for around 10 years.

Ethical Market Models in the Personal Data Ecosystem

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This is the presentation I gave at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing October 2015. It covers three main ethical market models that could support the emergence of a Personal Data Ecosystem centered on individuals and their personal clouds. The three models are Vendor Relationship Management, Infomediaries, and Data Aggregators. It highlights the need for Accountability Frameworks (also called Trust Frameworks) combinations of code and law/policy. This is contextualized in an overall Landscape picture where two other modes of governance also co-exist – Peer Governance and Identifier Governance.

Identification and Social Justice

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I, along with Bob Blakley, gave this talk as the closing keynote for the Cloud Identity Summit on July 19th, 2012 in Vail Colorado. It discusses a range of issues and options for identity in society. It postulates that social justice or fairness must be an underlying design feature of any system. It encourages people to get involved with the NSTIC process and the current steering committee being formed.