Digital Identity

Carel Mackenbach, digidentity

Carel Mackenbach is a co-founder of the Dutch identity provider digidentity.eu, which he discusses in this podcast. The company offers users the possibility to store all their personal information in a secure environment to which the user and then use this information to identify themselves on the Internet, thus allowing companies or individuals to know without question that they are dealing with the right person.

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Christian Lunden, Nordic Choice Hotels

Christian Lundén is a Product Manager at Nordic Choice Hotels, in which position he was responsible for implementing the chain's NFC pilot scheme in Stockholm. This allows frequent visitors to download their hotel key to an HFC phone and use it to get into their rooms. A good example of combined logical and physical access, in this podcast Christian discusses the pilot and what the chain has learned from it, including the decision to redesign future hotels to make them NFC-ready!!

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Professor Michael Birnhack, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies

Professor Michael Birnhack is from the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, currently visiting the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in London. He is part of the EU PRACTIS research group that has been forecasting technologies that will have an impact on privacy (good and bad: PETs and threats, so to speak) and has been developing a theory of privacy, the subject of this podcast.

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Bernard Herdan, National Fraud Authority

Dr. Bernard Herdan is the Chief Executive of the UK National Fraud Authority, reporting to the Attorney General. He has many years' experience at board level in the public sector, including Chief Executive UK Passport Agency. Chief Executive Criminal Records Bureau and Executive Director, Service Delivery, for the Identity and Passport Service. In this podcast explains the latest UK fraud figures for 2010 and talks about the NFAs objectives for the coming years.

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Peter Watkins, Government of British Columbia

Peter Watkins is an executive director in the Office of the Chief Information Officer with the Government of British Columbia. Peter has 18 years of experience as an information systems professional and public servant. Peter is one of the driving forces and experts behind the government's strategy for a user-centric claims based solution to the vexing problem of identity information management. Peter's specialty is the development of concepts, strategies and directions for pursuing change through new or emerging information technology. He has worked in software development, system design, IT operations, as well as management, service development and policy development. In this podcast he discusses some of the identity issues facing the government and the approach they are adopting to solve them.

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Douwe Lycklama and Vincent Jansen, Innopay

[Dave Birch] Douwe Lycklama and Vincent Jansen are from Innopay, an Amsterdam-based consulting firm that specialises in transaction-related services. In this podcast they talk about their report on creating a network market for electronic identities for the Dutch government.

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Federation, identity, management, podcast, standards

Don Thibeau, Open Identity Exchange

[Dave Birch] Don Thibeau is the Executive Director of The Open ID Foundation, an open source software identity standards organization representing leaders in internet, enterprise and social media technology. He joined the foundation at the beginning of 2009 to represent the organization worldwide and position it for long-term growth. Thibeau has held senior management positions with leading organizations including Kodak, TransUnion, and LexisNexis. He was an original member of the Reed Elsevier Venture Fund. Thibeau is also founding Chairman of the Board of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a neutral, non-profit, multi-channel provider of certification trust frameworks for open identity technologies. OIX was founded by grants from the OpenID and Information Card Foundations and support from companies including Google, PayPal, VeriSign, Verizon and Equifax. In this podcast, Don explain what OIX is and why it is an important step in public-private co-operation on the Internet.  

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Federation, identity, management, podcast, standards

Giles Sergant, Touch2ID

[Dave Birch] Giles Sergant is the Managing Director of Touch2ID, which has recently launched a proof-of-identity service in the UK. The system combines contactless cards and fingerprint matching to avoid the need for a central database. In this podcast, Giles explains the system and talks about how it might develop. Note that after this recording had been made, Touch2ID won the "Dragon Factor's Got Talent" pitch contest for payment-related startups at Consult Hyperion's 13th annual Digital Money Forum in March 2010.

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smart cards

C. Maxine Most, Acuity Inc.

[Dave Birch] Max Most is the founder of Acuity Market Intelligence and has 20 years experience in international emerging technology market development. She is well-known internationally as the author of the Biometrics Market Intelligence eUpdate, Acuity's identification solutions eNewsletter offering provocative insight and analysis of this rapidly evolving marketplace. In this podcast, she talks about the general shape of the biometrics market and how it might develop in the near future, with a focus on camera technology.

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ID cards, identity, management, PKI, security, smart cards

James Hall, Identity & Passport Service

[Dave Birch] In October 2006, James Hall moved from Accenture (where he had had a long career, culminating with the company's £2 billion NHS IT programme) to become head of the UK's Identity & Passport Service. In this podcast he explains some of the challenges of delivering large-scale IT-enabled change and talks about the status of the project now that the first ID cards have been issued.

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