Welcome to the Identity Woman Blog. Here are some links to help you get started on understanding identity on the internet:

• My Personal Saga with Google in the [psuedo]NymWars to use the name I choose on their service - annotation of all my posts.

• National! Identity! Cyberspace! Why we shouldn't freak about NSTIC on my Fast Company blog.

• Government Experimenting with Identity Technologies on my Fast Company blog.

• My speech at the Digital Privacy Forum in January 2011 articulating a vision that goes beyond "Do-Not-Track" vs. Business as Usual, creating a new ecosystem where people collect their own data.

• The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace asked industry leaders to share their ideas on how the Identity Ecosystem should be governed and managed. I wrote a response that covers much of the history of the user-centric community along with a vision of how to grow consensus.

• Core User-Centric Identity Concepts Videos on the NSTIC.US Education Page (be sure to scroll down), including Identity, Authentication (AuthN), Authorization (AuthZ), Verification, Enrollment, etc.

Organizations and Events I share leadership in:

• Internet Identity Workshop #14 May 1-3 in Mountain View, CA. This conference has focused on User-Centric Identity since 2005.

• Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium So far there are 16 startups focused on developing the new business opportunities for people collecting and getting value from their own data. We contributed to the World Economic Forum Rethinking Personal Data Project report Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class.

• Identity Commons keeps all the organizations and groups working on user-centric identity linked together.

• OASIS ID Trust Steering Committee representing Planetwork and people.