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Identity has never been easy to define for an individual or an organization. With the evolving social web, distinguishing who you are becomes a challenge. Dealing with the implications for an organization responsible for managing data of their constituents' identities createsan even greater challenge. In this session, we'll explore what identitymeans to your constituents, how to maintain trust of sharing private data, and identity tools that organizations can leverage to further collaboration.

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(Please note that this webinar is part of a webinar series and discussion on TheEvolution of Privacy and the Social Web. You may register for an individual session or the full series at a discounted rate.) 

Presented by: Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman

In 2009 Kaliya Hamlin was named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the mostinfluential women in tech. She an expert and community leader in the field of user-centric identity. Working in the field for over 5 years she is both a maven and a connector. She regularly speaks to both technical, business and regular person audiences about the emerging identity layer of the web.

She is a founder and the facilitator of the Internet Identity Workshop that she co-produces with Phil Windley and Doc Searls. Sherepresents the workshop on the stewards council of Identity Commons an association ofgroups working on social, legal and technical issues that arise with the development an identity layer of the web.

She is also a:

• Fellow of the Information Card Foundation
• one of the few members of the Open Web Foundation and 
• a Member of the OpenID Foundation.

Kaliya has another professional career leveraging her skills as a community leader in the field of digital identity as a designer and and facilitator of almost 100 unConferences mostly for professional technical communities. Her blog on this subject can be found here.

She first learned about user-centric identity through her active participation in the Planetwork community from 2002-2004. She developed a vision to link communities she was an activeparticipant in and as a aspiring-social-entrepreneur had two early Drupal sites built. This vision required open standards for user-centric identity and having “got” power of this idea from reading the Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next Generation Internet when it was published in 2003 she became an passionate evangelist for open standards. In 2004 following the last Planetwork conference she was hired by the first Identity Commons as an evangelist. In early 2005 she began this Identity Woman blog.

She is always open to questions from those trying to navigate the identity landscape.

Her contact information is here.

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