At two events 18-months apart, teams of suits, geeks, and wonks (industry experts, technologists, public policy analysts) brainstormed and scored what could lead to failure of NSTIC, an international effort to create an identity ecosystem. The whitepaper at http://pde.cc/nsticrisks recaps the long list of potential threats, a shorter list of preventive strategies, compares the 2011 and 2012 events, and names the two greatest threats: poor user experience (harming trust, adoption, use) and imbalance among the forces tying the identity ecosystem together.
IIW was a great success!
5 November 2011 by
PDEC hosted a session for big companies interested in Personal Data. We will be following up and exploring/developing workshops for those companies. Legal Advisory Board Our new Legal Advisory Board took shape with Judi Clark chairing the board. Notes from the session led by Mary Hodder and Judi are part of the IIW XIII session […]
PDEC at IIW: An NSTIC Project Risk Analysis
12 May 2011 by
At last week’s Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View, California, I led a brainstorming session to identify risks to the success of the new National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC, pronounced “EN-stick”). The strategy is to encourage many non-government organizations to provide digital identity and personal data services in a way that meets […]