Let's talk about digital identity with Don Thibeau, Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation. In episode 9, Oscar talks to Don about his career so far; his work with the OpenID Foundation (including FAPI and CIBA standards) and the Open Identity Exchange (OIX); and what he calls the 'Holy Trinity' driving the identity industry. Throughout the conversation Don highlights cultural differences in attitudes towards digital identity, and how we should be taking a more global approach. [Scroll down for transcript] "We have to work locally, but we have to think globally" Don Thibeau is the Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, a non-profit international standards development organisation of individuals and companies committed to enabling, promoting and protecting OpenID technologies. The Foundation’s membership includes leaders from across industry sectors and governments that collaborate on the development, adoption and deployment of open identity standards. Formed in June 2007, the Foundation serves as a public trust organisation representing the open community of developers, vendors, and users while providing needed infrastructure and leadership in promoting and supporting expanded adoption of OpenID. Find more information at openid.net/foundation/. Don is also the Co-Chair of the OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods (Trust Elevation) Technical Committee. He founded and now serves on the board of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) - a non-profit, technology agnostic, collaborative cross sector membership organisation with the purpose of accelerating the adoption of digital identity services based on open standards. As Don mentions in the episode, you can find the OIX's extensive whitepaper library at openidentityexchange.org. Find Don on Twitter @4thibeau, on LinkedIn, or email don(at)oidf.org. Don also refers to previous episodes of Let's Talk About Digital Identity with DIACC President, Joni Brennan - ubisecure.com/podcast/joni-brennan-diacc - and with One World Identity’s Cameron D’Ambrosi - ubisecure.com/podcast/cameron-dambrosi-one-world-identity/. We’ll be continuing this conversation on LinkedIn and Twitter using #LTADI – join us @ubisecure! [Podcast transcript] Let’s talk about digital identity. The podcast connecting identity and business. I am your host, Oscar Santolalla. Oscar Santolalla: Hello and thanks for joining. Today we will have a conversation with a man who has led, and today leads, very influential organisations in this realm of digital identity. Don Thibeau is Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, a non-profit international standards development organisation of individuals and companies committed to enabling, promoting and protecting OpenID technologies. The foundation’s membership includes leaders from across industry sectors and governments that collaborate on the development, adoption and deployment of open identity standards. Don is also the Co-Chair of the OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods (Trust Elevation) Technical Committee and Don was the founder of the Open Identity Exchange and serves on its board. Hello Don. Don Thibeau: Hello Oscar. I’ve been looking forward to this conversation for some time. Oscar: Same on our side. It’s great talking with you today. So let’s talk about digital identity. I would like to ask you first, what was your journey to this world of digital identity? Don: Yes. Most of my career has been involved in the identity data business. The companies that I’ve been part of and the companies that I’ve founded have all in one form or fashion been concerned with how identity is expressed online, both in code and in governance. So the work that I’ve been doing for the last 10 years has really been focused on digital identity on a global basis. I’ve had an opportunity to lead two organisations in the space and if I can,