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 Multi-Protocol 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 CSO magazine's Digital ID World (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 meets and/or exceeds objectives established by the development team - (25%)
2) Application demonstrates ROI - (20%)
3) Application provides specific benefits to organizations and/or consumers and users - (20%)
4)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.), enabling new business services, etc. - (20%)
5) Tools used to develop the application have demonstrated interoperability with other protocols - (15%)