Let's Talk About Digital Identity

Let's talk about digital identity with Chris Southworth, Secretary General at the ICC and Oswald Kulyer, Global Head of Strategy at MonetaGo.

Join Oscar as he discusses the Electronic Trade Documents Bill with Chris Southworth and Oscar Kuyler – what is the electronic trade documents bill, its aims and benefits and how this may spread globally to improve trade processes.

"But, you know, what's important here is the disproportionate positive impact that will have, because it allows us to digitise the whole transactional space."

Chris Southworth is Secretary General at the ICC United Kingdom. Prior to joining ICC he was Executive Director for Global Partnerships, at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), Head of the International Chambers of Commerce Unit at UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and a Senior Policy Advisor to Lord Heseltine for his independent review of UK competitiveness. In 2011 he helped set up the mid-size business export programme at UKTI and was a Senior Policy Advisor for the 2011 Government Review of Mid-Size Businesses. Former roles have encompassed deregulatory policy at Better Regulation Executive, social enterprise policy at the Department for Business and stints in a local strategic partnership and the charity sector.

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Oswald Kuyler is currently the Global Head of Strategy for MonetaGo, a fintech focused on global fraud prevention. Oswald is also a Digital standards advisor to the international chamber of commerce UK and is also the former Managing Director of the DSI. Oswald is the former Global Head of Data Strategy of BHP, the world's largest diversified mining company. He has worked on initiatives covering blockchain, electronic documentation in trade, data and analytics, and automation.

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Let's talk about digital identity with Oscar Santolalla and Clare Rowley, Head of Business Operations at GLEIF.

Episode 81 is an identity stories special, where Oscar and Clare discuss the history of identities for businesses and how and why the LEI was created and introduced – including how the LEI has been adopted globally, the challenges is has helped to solve and what the future of LEI might be.

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Let's talk about digital identity with Bianca Lopes, Identity Advocate, Investor.

Join Bianca Lopes and Oscar as they discuss the top challenges, solutions and achievements within digital identity within the financial industry – the connection to regenerative finance (Refi) and digital identity and how this is changing identity in finance.

" I think a lot of the microservices architectures that some of the banks and financial services companies have implemented in their movement to the cloud, or just in their change inside and internally, have opened up their minds to rethink identity across the organisation. "

Bianca Lopes is an investor, business builder, economist, and identity expert, who focusing on driving meaningful impact through technology and regulation. Leading many significant identity projects and having helped transform how data can unlock financial and social worth. With a central focus on how we can rewire finance using the power of digital identity, ethics, and Web3.

Bianca is driven by how we negotiate competing values with data and information technologies. In her work I have supported over 40 financial institutions and 8 governments to reshape their approach to technology, rethink the role of identity, and leverage their innovation agendas. She manages an international speaking calendar to help business leaders, governments, and consumers understand the impact that data, privacy, and finance will continue to have on our lives.

Bianca’s journey and lived experience have informed her worldview. Born in Brazil, educated in Canada, based in Denmark and multilingual, she has encountered both sides of economic and digital development. Her mission is to build bridges and create value. She is honoured to work with UNESCO’s International Research Center on Artificial Intelligence. Here we facilitate cooperation in developing artificial intelligence with special emphasis on supporting the development of a vibrant AI ecosystem Globally.

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Let's talk about digital identity with Viky Manaila, Trust Services Director at Intesi Group.

In episode 79 Oscar and Viky discuss eIDAS 2.0 and EU digital identity wallets – what eIDAS 2.0 and why was in created, what lessons were learnt from eIDAS and how have these helped to build eIDAD 2.0, and how the EU digital wallet related to eIDAS 2.0.

"So, the aim of eIDAS 2.0 is to achieve the targets set in Europe's path to digital decade. Eighty percent of EU citizens being able to use a digital ID by 2030…"

Viky Manaila is an international expert in the field of electronic signatures, digital identity and digital transformation processes, who has successfully promoted the electronic business globally.

She has been technical expert to the European Commission for instituting Regulation 910/2014 (eIDAS) on electronic identity assurance and the design and roll-out of European, cross-nation e-procurement platforms and operations. She is member of different high level working groups set up by the European Commission, ETSI and the US Government aimed at aligning policy and operations around trust identity, digital signatures and cross-recognition.

Viky has successfully contributed to standardization work for the global acceptance of European Trust Services, as an expert in ETSI ESI Specialist Task Force 560. Global Acceptance of EU Trust Services is a study of existing trust services that operate in different regions of the world and their possible mutual recognition or global acceptance. The eIDAS Regulation and corresponding standards go beyond EU boundaries, proving that interoperability and cross-border legal recognition are the keys for global electronic commerce and transactions.

Viky is also President of Cloud Signature Consortium.

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Let's talk about digital identity with Dr. Salah Rustum, founder of CIEL and CIELTECH.

Oscar is joined by Dr. Salah Rustum, founded of CIEL and CIELtech to discuss digital identity in the middle east – what digital identity challenges the organisations in this region are facing, what solutions could be introduced to help these challenges and what cyber laws are in this region and his role in introducing these laws.

"Everybody wants to be on the internet, everybody wants to apply in new technologies. The danger is that sometimes they get wrong advice."

Dr Salah A. Rustum is a Ph. D. in Aerodynamics and has occupied very high positions in this field including vice presidency at Boeing.

Dr Rustum`s is also the founder of CIEL a Lebanese Company dealing in Cyber Security ever since 1990 and the founder of CIELTECH

of Qatar which has the same concept and has set his mission to support and develop the integrity of information technology and information sent on the Internet.

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Let's talk about digital identity with Michael Palage, intellectual property attorney and an information technology consultant.

In episode 77 Michael and Oscar discuss what DNS can bring to identity – what identity problems DNS can help to solve and how DNS fits with TRAIN. Michael also covers how LEIs are part of this solution.

" I see the DNS being in an optimal infrastructure to facilitate identity discovery and look up, and one that can seamlessly integrate with the various identity technology stacks that are in the market today."

Michael Palage is an intellectual property attorney and an information technology consultant. He has been actively involved in Internet Governance and ICT issues over the last twenty years. During this time, he has been intimately involved in ICANN operational and policy matters since its formation in both an individual and leadership role, including a three-year term on the ICANN Board of Directors. Currently, Michael is President and CEO of Pharos Global, Inc. which provides consulting and management services to domain name registration authorities and other technology related companies in connection with Internet governance issues. He is also the co-founder of InfoNetworks, LLC, an information technology company focused on solutions for building online trusted ecosystems incorporating the federation verified data. He has testified before the United States Congress multiple times and as an expert witness in both Federal and State Court in numerous legal proceedings.

FinCEN / FDIC Digital Identity Tech Sprint: Team DNS presentation

InfoNetworks/Microsoft/DigiCert – Domain Name Credential Use Case

ICANN BC Presentation ICANN72

ICANN BC Presentation

ICANN75

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Let's talk about digital identity with Roberth Lundin, Senior Security Consultant at Knowit.

In episode 76, Senior Security Consultant at Knowit, Roberth Lundin, discusses identification services in Sweden alongside Smart Cards – what identification services are available in Sweden and why should someone have a BankID or Freja e-ID as well as what smart cards are and what is interesting about these.

"But if you take a smart card, for example, well, you can't copy a smart card. That's very important."

Roberth Lundin is Senior Security Consultant at Knowit.

For the last years he has been working with Bankgirot as an IT-security specialist, in which one of his most important duties is to coordinate all security audits using risk-based approach, also worked with SOC/SIEM system, identity governance and administration (IGA). In his vast experience he has seen and contributed to the evolution of eIDs in Sweden including smart cards.

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Let’s talk about digital identity with David Birch, Principal at 15 Mb and author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services.

In episode 75 David Birch discusses digital currencies – the differences between digital currency and cryptocurrency, the role in which identity plays in digital currency and the importance on identity verification within digital currencies.

“Digital currency needs some form of digital identity, that might actually drive digital identity forward and help digital identity to develop into the mass market.”

David BirchDavid G.W Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. Principal at 15Mb, his advisory company, he is Global Ambassador for the secure electronic transactions consultancy, Consult Hyperion, Fintech Ambassador for Digital Jersey and Non-Executive Chair at Digiseq Ltd. He is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money. Ranked one of the top 100 fintech influencers for 2021, previously named one of the global top 15 favourite sources of business information by Wired magazine and one of the top ten most influential voices in banking by Financial Brand, he created one of the top 25 “must read” financial IT blogs and was found by PR Daily to be one of the top ten Twitter accounts followed by innovators (along with Bill Gates and Richard Branson).

His latest book “The Currency Cold War—Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony” (published in May 2020) “paints a fascinating and stimulating picture of the future of the world of digital payments and its possible impact on the wider global and economic orders” – Philip Middleton, OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute. His previous book “Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From money we understand to money that understands us” was published in June 2017 with a foreword by Andrew Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England. The LSE Review of Books said the book should be “widely read by graduate students of finance, financial law and related topics as well as policy makers involved in financial regulation”. The London Review of Books called his earlier book “Identity is the New Money” fresh, original, wide-ranging and “the best book on general issues around new forms of money”.

More information is available at www.dgwbirch.com and you can follow him @dgwbirch on Twitter.

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Let's talk about digital identity with Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting.

In episode 74, Heather Flanagan discusses making identity easy for everyone – how to explain digital identity to people outside of the identity industry, why is it important for everyone to understand, and how the industry can help to improve the understanding of identity for everyone.

"If you talk to any identity professional, they will agree that passwords are one of the biggest, possibly the biggest challenge facing the industry. So how are we solving it?"

Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting and choreographer for Identity Flash Mob, comes from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership roles with some of the most technical, volunteer-driven organisations on the Internet, including IDPro as Principal Editor, the IETF, the IAB, and the IRTF as RFC Series Editor, ICANN as Technical Writer, and REFEDS as Coordinator, just to name a few. If there is work going on to develop new Internet standards, or discussions around the future of digital identity, she is interested in engaging in that work.

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Let's talk about digital identity with Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director of the Global Privacy and Security by Design Centre.

In our series opener, Ann Cavoukian discusses Privacy by Design – the 7 foundational principles, the issues that it aims to solve and how Privacy by Design has evolved and is being used in today’s tech products.

"You want to prevent the privacy harms from arising, not just resolve them after the fact, you want to prevent them."

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognised as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There she created Privacy by Design, a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies, networked infrastructure and business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognising Privacy by Design as an International Standard. Since then, PbD has been translated into 40 languages! In 2018, PbD was included in a sweeping new law in the EU: the General Data Protection Regulation.

Dr. Cavoukian is now the Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University, and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

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Privacy by Design has become an ISO Standard, listen to Episode 89 Privacy by Design: Road to ISO 31700 to find out more.

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