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OIX encourages membership from all elements of the ID ecosystem.

If you are a provider of identity services or a representative of an organisation that relies on verified IDs within its business processes, your input into the development of our guidance on trust frameworks and interoperability will be hugely valuable.  

Whether from the public or private sector, a regulator or trade association, media or analyst,

Open market models underpin the development of a sector that is innovative, competitive and focused on user needs. This includes:

More choice for eCommerce and product managers about the policies that they apply to user interactions.

Market pricing for products and services across the entire identity infrastructure.

Economies of scale as service standardization lowers costs for all parties

A more inclusive approach as the needs of diverse users are actively con...

Yes, the key challenge to providing identity assurance at scale is removing the need for direct trust agreements between ID services providers and those who rely on IDs for their business processes. OIX is a membership community for all those involved in the ID sector. Vendors and clients, regulators and influencers connect and collaborate to develop the rules, tools and confidence to create Trust Frameworks for identity in order to accept universally trusted identities.

Karolina is passionate about delivering great digital products focusing on outcomes that create value for users and businesses. Her role in LexisNexis Risk Solutions as Director of Product Management is centered around the new account opening part of the customer journey including identity and fraud, credit decisioning and financial crime compliance. Lexis Nexis' product development process puts customers at heart of what they do.

Director of Identity Standards at Microsoft

Wilf delivers identity and access management into Gov, NHS and enterprise, helping these organisations build a strong front door to their services.

Glenn is a globally recognised thought leader in the travel, aviation and technology sectors. He is plugged into emerging digital, social and innovation trends.

If it is new, cutting edge and transformational, Glenn can tell you how to exploit it in your business.

As an experienced business executive, Glenn has worked at the crossroads of technology and business across a range of industries, including telecommunications, utilities, oil and gas, government, and...

OIX has published a short paper that recommends the approach UK Government might take to make Digital Identity in the UK a success in 2021. The paper also highlights the actions OIX proposes to undertake over the next few months to support this success. 

OIX responded on 12th October 2020 to the ‘Next steps for DCMS Digital Identity policy development’ questionnaire.

Key points made in the response can be summarised as:

OIX has responded to the  consultation on behalf of it’s members.

Input was gathered from members in a well attended workshop.

Key points raise in OIX supplemental response are:

OIX is very pleased to welcome the Identity Provider “Nuggets” to the OIX community.

Nuggets is a decentralised, self-sovereign ID and payments platform. It stores your personal and payment data with blockchain, so you never have to share it with anyone – not even Nuggets.

The platform enables consumers to retain control of their personal data. And spares businesses the enormous risks and costs of maintaining databases of...

The UK Government yesterday released its response to the Digital Identity: Call for Evidence:

A project may be formed (sponsored) by any member of OIX in collaboration with one or more other members. Non-member organisation may collaborate on an OIX project. All non-members are required to sign the OIX Participant Agreement (Link) to protect IPR.

There are three ‘costs’ associated with running an OIX project: Participation fee, Facilitation Fee and Project Funds.

Participation Fee: All participating organisations will pay a ‘part...

At all times, participating members and non-members in projects and white papers must observe the Code of Conduct.

This policy is to set out the principles by which OIX projects should be formed, governed and executed with the intent of achieving a desirable outcome and to set out the principles relating to the publication of white papers. The objectives are to ensure OIX Projects:

• Further Identity
  
• Are clearly aligned to the OIX’s vision, mission and objectives
  
• Are effectively managed within the limitations of the scope, resources...

A Member paper may be written by one or more OIX members. It should reflect a current issue or opportunity that is relevant to the purpose of OIX and is to further identity

A member(s) who wishes to write a paper and publish it through OIX, should initially produce a synopsis of the intended paper and present it to the OIX Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will provide comment as to whether it believes it is suitable and relevant and, if not, offer informe...

A project report reflects the outcomes of a project. It is written by an author who should be appointed on commencement of a project.

A project report is published to an international community. It should be concise and written for a predominantly business-level readership. Industry jargon should be avoided. It is good practice to include a glossary.

Additional project material may be published alongside a project report. This may include techni...