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ICF Executive Director Drummond Reed just returned from a two-week trip to the EU. He shares the following observations:

My first stop was giving a keynote at the NordSec conference in Oslo, wonderfully organized by Dr. Audun Jøsang of the University of Oslo. The agenda was one of the richest of any conference in my recent memory; I found myself taking notes constantly on talks covering STORK, ID management based on mobile SIM cards, and privacy risks in Web 2.0, among other topics.

The day ended with a panel on “Global identity management – a threat or an opportunity for privacy?” I spoke strongly in favor of the opportunity Information Card technology offers for privacy protection, and how the U.S. government’s open identity solutions initiative is taking advantage of this. That initiative and the ICF/OIDF open trust frameworks project drew a great deal of interest among the largely EU-based audience—its potential for helping “raise the bar” on Internet privacy was one the main themes of the panel.

The Information Card Foundation is pleased to welcome the newly-formed German Language Chapter to the Foundation. The chapter facilitates activities and discussions about Information Cards among German-speaking people, primarily from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

The first meeting of the chapter was held this week at the European Identity Conference in Munich, and was enthusiastically attended by approximately 25 people representing at least 17 companies and organizations. 7 presentations were made about Information Card projects happening in the region.

The German Language Chapter hosts its own website at http://informationcard.de/.

Willkommen!