Call for Nominations for the 2009 IDDY Awards Now Open

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Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:00pm EDT 

Kantara Initiative expands the Liberty Alliance IDentity Deployment of the
Year Award program, announces new categories and judging criteria

WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Kantara Initiative, the global identity
community working to solve harmonization and interoperability challenges among
identity-enabled enterprise, Web 2.0 and Web-based applications and services,
today announced the call for nominations for the 2009 IDDY Awards. This year's
IDDY Award (IDentity Deployment of the Year) program features Deployment and
Proof-of-Concept categories and has been expanded within Kantara Initiative to
recognize identity-enabled applications and services built using any open
identity technology. The call for nominations will close on August 3, with
awards presented on September 15 at CSO magazine's Digital ID World 2009 in
Las Vegas, NV.

The IDDY Awards shine a spotlight on the individuals and organizations
responsible for building and deploying identity-enabled applications for
people, communities, businesses and governments. The 2009 Deployment category
recognizes applications that are in use today. The Proof-of-Concept category
highlights working proof-of-concept applications. Nominations for both
categories can be based on, or include any identity technology such as
Activity Streams, APML, CX. IGF, ID-WSF, iNames, Information Cards,
MicroFormats, OATH, OAuth, OpenID, OpenSocial, OPML, PKI , Portable Contacts,
RDF, RSS, SAML, WS*, XACML, XDI, XRD, XRI, XMPP extensions, etc.

"Now in its fourth year, the IDDY Awards program continues to evolve to
reflect the changing digital identity landscape. The 2009 program provides
individuals and organizations working across the identity ecosystem with new
opportunities to join the growing list of IDDY Award recipients," said Brett
McDowell, executive director of Kantara Initiative. "With the expanded scope
of technologies being considered, we're excited about the variety of new
applications and services helping to advance the next generation of digital
identity solutions that this year's program promises to highlight." 

About the IDDY Awards 
The annual IDDY Awards program was launched by Liberty Alliance in 2006 to
recognize excellence in digital identity management. The 2009 program has been
expanded to reflect the Kantara Initiative mission of fostering cross-protocol
harmonization and interoperability. Previous winners of the IDDY Award include
Aetna; Citi; Deutsche Telekom AG; eBIZ.mobility; EduTech, for the New York
State educational agencies; NTT Labs; Rearden Commerce; the UK Government
Authentication Gateway; UNINETT and the New Zealand Government. Nomination
forms and more information about this year's program is available at
http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/IDDY+Awards+2009.

    CONTACT:

    Russ DeVeau
    954-530-2850- Office
    908-251-1549 - Mobile
    russ@kantaraintiative.org
    russdeveau@comcast.net


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