The Community

Created as a result of the federal government’s Task Force for the Payments System Review, the DIACC is a non-profit coalition of public and private sector leaders committed to developing a Canadian digital identification and authentication framework to enable Canada’s full and secure participation in the global economy. DIACC members include over 75 representatives from both the federal and provincial levels of government as well as private sector leaders.

The DIF is a Joint Development Foundation project that facilitates IPR-protected co-development among large and small industry players in the decentralized identity space. It produces open-source code, pre-standard specifications, market collaboration, and non-technical documentation.

The FIDO Alliance is an open industry association with a focused mission: authentication standards to help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords.

IDPro is the non-profit industry association for identity management professionals, globally fostering ethics and excellence in the practice and profession of digital identity.

The Kantara Initiative is the leading global community commons that 3rd party assesses, approves and trust marks identity service providers to de jure standards such as NIST SP 800 63-3.

OIX is a community for all involved in ID to connect and collaborate, developing guidance needed for inter-operable, trusted identities. Through Trust Frameworks, we create rules, tools and confidence that allows every individual a trusted, universally accepted, identity.

Women in Identity is a non-profit membership organization. WiD promotes parity with respect to opportunity, reward, recognition and professional mobility in relation to gender, intersectionality, race, ability, ethnicity, sexual orientation/identity, creed, age or social status.

BiometricUpdate.com is the leading news property that publishes shareable breaking news, analysis, and research about the global biometrics market.