UMA received the Best Innovation Security Award from the European Identity & Cloud Conference 2014. Of completed projects, the following are noteworthy: Kantara completed the project of incubating the IDPro project in 2017. IDPro is now a 501(c)6 industry association for digital identity professionals. Kantara will continue to develop the Body of Knowledge for the good of IDPro and the community. This effort was kicked off in 2016 with an electronic pledge where digital identity professionals signify their support for a digital identity professional association and Kantara’s principles. Kantara has all but completed the Applied R&D project with Rutgers University’s Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA), a US Department of Homeland Security University Center of Excellence, a main component of the KIPI (Kantara Identity and Privacy Incubator) program. Two projects to progress through all three phases to transition to commercialization are Mobile Device Attribute Verification (MDAV) and NFC4PACS. Kantara's R&D grant funding currently centers around NGI_Trust (a project under the European Commission's H2020 program) where Kantara Europe is a consortium partner. Kantara's publishes the outputs from its workgroups on its website where they are free to download. History The initiative was established in 2009 by a group of identity management (IDM) technical interoperability organizations using a bi-cameral system of governance. Responding to industry consortia fragmentation, Kantara aimed to form a unified, transparent and inclusive member organization for digital identity community stakeholders. In 2011, Kantara focused on serving the needs of relying parties. Kantara did so by developing assessment, assurance and trust marks for federated trust frameworks, as well as developing urgently needed specifications quicker than the lengthy processes undertaken by Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). Private and public sector relying party organizations (initially from the United States, but now worldwide) joined the initiative to develop identity and credential requirements and operate conformance and assurance programs, thus complementing the missions and outputs of other industry consortia, such as PDEC (Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium), Customer Commons the CARIN Alliance, Identity Commons, FIDO Alliance and IDESG (assets transitioned to Kantara Educational Foundation in June 2018). Formerly an affiliate program under IEEE-ISTO, Kantara Initiative self-incorporated as a 501(c)6 nonprofit organization in January 2016. In 2018, two financially separate but similarly missioned and branded organizations were establishedMittetulundusuhing Kantara Initiative Europe, an Estonian based Trade Association, and Kantara Initiative Educational Foundation Inc, a US incorporated 501(c)3 in the US. References Identity management initiative