The IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) is the industry’s first event to recognize the individuals and organizations responsible for developing and deploying outstanding digital identity management solutions. The Emerging Applications category is designed to showcase the Liberty Alliance-based “up-and-coming” applications and proof-of-concepts driving the next generation of digital identity management solutions.
Organizations recognized by Liberty Alliance as having an outstanding emerging application will receive the IDDY Award at at CSO magazine’s Digital ID World 2008 conference(September 8-10 - http://conference.digitalidworld.com/2008/) in Anaheim, CA, where Roger Sullivan, president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board, will announce the winning applications based on scores given by a panel of judges. The judging panel consists of identity management and privacy and policy experts from around the world working collectively to evaluate applications based on information supplied in the nomination form and the following criteria.
1) Application has the potential to deliver new identity management capabilities (fills an industry need) to users and organizations (30%)
2) Application has the potential for wide scale deployment (20%)
3) Application successfully addresses identity issues such as reducing/preventing identity theft, helping to meet regulatory requirements, increasing consumer privacy, addressing policy challenges (i.e., implementation of a Circle of Trust, etc.), etc. - (20%)
4) Interoperability of vendor products plays a role in the potential success of this application (10%)
5) Application has the potential to allow organizations to deploy/enable new services and/or meets key vertical market requirements (20%)
