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Kaliya has been working on cultivating open standards for user-centric identity since 2004.

She co-founded, co-produces and facilitates the Internet Identity Workshop, the primary venue for collaboration amongst large internet portals, large Enterprise IT companies and small innovators.

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Technologies in the community include OpenID, OAuth, XRD, Information Cards, SAML, Portable Contacts, XRI, XDI, Open Social, Activity Streams, DiSo etc.

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I also design and facilitate unconferences for professional communities. My blog on the topic is Unconference.net

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Identity Commons The community supporting collaboration amongst various tecnical efforts and addressing social and legal issues that arise with online digital identity.

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OpenID web based URL identity for Single Sign On.

Information Card Foundationworking on claims based identity standards and a common UI for sharing them.

Open Source Identity Systemsis working on interoperability and is now entering interop #5.

The Higgins Projectis an open source project based at the Eclipse Foundation working on many key components including identity selectors in Air.

The Pamela Project is working on relying party code for information cards.

The ID-Legal group is working on supporting a critical dialogue between technologists and the legal community as the technologies are developed.

KIds Online is working on supporting a real dialogue about kids online issues - with real professional community manaagers.

The VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) Projectlead by Doc Searls is moving forward the idea that citizens need tools to interact with the vendors they do business with - the reciprocal of CRM.

The Interent Identity Workshopis the main gathering of the identity community. It is an unconference so the agenda is made the day it happens.

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Posted on Thursday 14 June 2007

While surfing around the women in tech world I found this statistic on Ubuntu Women.

An EC funded study (2006) summarized in the Flosspols report, indicates that about 1.5% of FLOSS community members were female, compared with 28% in proprietary software. The Ubuntu Census Survey (June 2006) also reflects a similar female ratio with 2.4% women actively volunteering in the Ubuntu community.

I understand we are not an ‘open source community’ but I think we do have fewer women then the 28% in corporate tech. I was struck at AOL two weeks ago how many women were there. I wonder why more women from the corporate world don’t come to events like IIW and other tech conferences.

I hope that we can continue to improve the number of women participating in Identity. In the hallway of IIW I came across a little pod of three women I have never before seen at an IIW event – this was great! I hope that along with being proactive in inviting various interested communities to the next IIW we can also reach out to respected women who could contribute to the conversation.

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