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Here are relevant links for my SIBOS talk on Monday the 23 of September, 2019
Internet Identity Workshop, October 1-2, 2019, April 27-29, 2020 and October 20-22, 2020.
History of Identity documents and systems. I recommend Mawaki Chango’s Becoming Artifacts.
My report on Challenges with NPE identity including corporation.
A starting point to look at Data Banking as an opportunity via the MyData community.
Understanding Decentralized Identifiers and how they work – My book A Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity.
Book Standards: Recipes for Reality
British Columbia’s work to build out a business registry.
Ontario’s Business registry architeture
Alberta Credentials Ecosystem
Silicon Valley Innovation Program: Preventing Forgery and Counterfeiting of Certificates and Licenses
Taxonomic Approach to Blockchain Identity Technology draft by NIST
Known Traveler report by WEF – announcement with the Government of the Netherlands about their project.
CULedger
Trust – my article the Trouble with Trust and the Case for Accountability Frameworks
Pan Canadian Trust Framework work.
 

I’m super excited to share the results of the research I did at the beginning of the year in India.
Here it is…

Key Differences Between the U.S. Social Security System and India’s Aadhaar System

Last fall I worked with Heather Vescent to do some research for DHS S&T on two topics.
Securing Voter Data
and Entities Identities Registries: Exploring the Gaps in Corporate and IoT Identity
 

When it is ready the Domains of Identity Spanish Edition will appear here.
 

We are going to India in collaboration with the IEEE hosting an unconference similar to the Internet Identity Workshop. It’s going to be in Bangalore July 10-11th. <a href=”https://in.explara.com/e/indita “>Here is the link to learn more and get tickets.</a>
Bonus IIW fall registration is now open!

I’m just putting it out here on this blog that I talked the data raindrop and how it works at IIW in the session about Sidewalk Labs.
If Google try to patent it… yeah I was the one who had the idea.   🙂
I look forward to developing it with developers who think its cool. I will outline it further soon.

I worked with the Editor of Transformation Michael Edwards on a new piece Humanizing Technology that covers all three of my technological expertise and how they weave together. Social Emotional and Technical Technologies <–read the piece if it sounds intriguing.
 

I’m leading a session at the Cloud Identity Summit
Thursday June 22, 2017 3:45 PM – 4:35 PM
Chicago Ballroom VIII

Unsolved Enterprise Identity Challenges

Are you a CTO or CISSO with critical identity management, access control, or data privacy challenges? Then this is your session! In this interactive session, you will share and hear about challenges – the ones that can’t be solved by existing commercial technology. We are eliciting Identity Management challenges for Cyber Security research funding. Let’s get your critical needs on the Identity Management Research Agenda!

So.. I’m watching this fine video by IBM about its “self-sovereign” identity document  solution that magically the drivers licence authority can “erase” with a click of the button from them (yes the could if need to be able to revoke your privilege to drive but its an ID you use for many other things besides that). See that in this video.
The next video just got me hopping – they are calling all the bits of information about you on the drivers licence “traits” rather than the industry norm for those types of things “attributes”.  Anyways maybe this is for public consumption.  Link to video. And for a bouns…”my traits don’t makeup who I am”. (Oh but the ISO standards they are following often take this perspective).
I think this first video listed may be the first case I have seen of the white-washing of the term self-sovereign Identity.
Perhaps it was and is naive to believe that we will be able to build systems that really empower consumers and take advantage of the things that bits can do that paper documents can’t. The grooves of thinking about how things will need to be are shaped by the people and institutions that have been thinking about this and driving this since the era when they created passports that were a new and novel thing in the 1920s.  they are driven by the institutions that seek to control us via our identities.
They don’t have a problem using the term “cryptoblob” – which might be a good term of art.
Dave Barns is working on this a lot and it is very interesting that he and his group have not found IIW yet. It just shows that the landscape is ripe for more connecting.  Hopefully they can join us in May or October.
 
 
 
 

I haven’t been blogging much 🙁
Lots has happened this past few years. So much stuff and so much that I haven’t really talked about publically. I will get to that in time. I have been sharing in other mediums a little bit on twitter and mailing lists. It will all come out in good time.
It has made me think a lot about trust, allies, “reputation” or the failure of people who actually espouse it as a thing to use to regulate social systems to actually use it to do so. Also about the systemic level of abuse that women experience in life and in professional realms.
I’m back though. Living in a good place. Feeling strong and healthy. I have just spent the holidays working on a report I’m really proud of. Hopefully it will be made public, that will also be in good time….
She’s Geeky is happening! We have formed a new core team with myself, Estee Solomon-Gray and Shannon Casey. We are having a special edition one day event on January 28th. Its a week after the inauguration and  we are considering the question What are we doing as women of Technology and STEAM at this time.  We have three themes – Regroup, Reenergize, Redirect.
I’m on the board of Patient Privacy Rights – lead by Deb Peel. The organization is supporting a new book coming out by Adam Tanner, Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling our Medical Records.
January 9th is the book launch in Austin.
Here is a link to a Washington Post Interview with Adam.
 

Yesterday a reporter called me up and asked me for comment on Ellen Pao. I said “What did you expect?” It became the headline! – I continued “Ellen was at the center of a high-profile sexual discrimination suit versus a major VC firm and she was put in charge of the teenage boy section of the internet. What did you expect was going to happen? It was inevitable that they would turn on her,”
You can read the whole article here – I wasn’t the only one unsurprised by what happened. 🙂

‘What did you expect?’ Women in tech reflect on Ellen Pao’s exit from Reddit

Here is the registration for the 21st Internet Identity Workshop.
Join us its going to be great.

I just wrote this up for the virtual press kit for the #mynameis protest.
 
With its real name / authentic name policy Facebook is violating the rights and dignity of thousands if not millions. Individuals of all stripes have authentic names that are not found on any of their legal paperwork.  In common law countries we have the right to define our own name and there rights need to be respected online.
Identity is contextual. That is the same person may use different names authentically in different social contexts – within the Drag Queen and LGBT community – one name Lil Hot Mess for example and in a professional day job a completely different name – more likely one on formal legal paperwork but not necessarily.  These different contexts have their own contextual authenticity.
Google+ when it began several years ago also had a real name or what they called common name policy and instead users send in government issued ID via e-mail.  Many resisted these policies and eventually years later they changed their policies.   The movement around their policies was called the #Nymwars and several people organized to found the Nym Rights group. We fully support the #MyNameIs campaign and its efforts.
The freedom to choose our own names is the digital civil rights issue of our time. Without the freedom to choose our own name(s) online and the right associated with that choose our digital identities subject to termination for arbitrary reasons.  In the physical world – if our body is assaulted, or killed whoever does will suffer consequences. We must struggle for our rights in the digital world and the freedom to choose our own names – without these rights and freedoms our right to express ourselves – to speak up in a free society will be severely weakened.
Kaliya, Identity Woman
Independent Advocate for the Rights and Dignity of Our Digital Selves.

Blockchain Identities Are Coming