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The third and final of the identity week meetings (Campus Architecture & Middleware Planning - CAMP) started with an amusing keynote from Patrick Perry, Vice Chancellor of Technology, Research and Information Systems California Community Colleges.
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A recurrent theme of Identity Week (#I2identity13) was the use of social identities: their use as an ‘IdP of last resort’; their trustworthiness ("A Google Id is no better or worse than a Guest account at an institution" vs. “researchers have a problem with social identities as a cultural statement - they don't 'trust' [insert name of Social Network Provider]”); “Social logins should be thought of as external account management”.
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Last week Rhys and I were in Burlingame, near San Francisco, a town no longer just famous for having a Pez museum but now also known as the host of the first Internet2 Identity Week. Given the increasing interest in identity and access management, Internet 2 took the decision to strip all the AIM related content out of their Members Meeting and have a focussed Identity Week this Autumn.
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Not the snappiest title, but the Inside Government Identity Assurance: enabling the secure delivery of online transactions and public services event I attended earlier this week was a really useful opportunity to find out what is happening in other parts of the public sector and also to be not surrounded by the usual IdM suspects.
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The first Tuesday of each month can normally find a mixture of commercial, government and other public sector people with an interest in identity management attending Open Identity Exchange / Identity Assurance Programme (OIX/IDAP) meetings. Convened by the Cabinet Office the main focus is to provide an update on the IDAP Alpha projects, but yesterday's was also a joint meeting with EEMA (the European Association for e-identity and security) and had a focus on Mobile and Identity.
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Co-design is an experiment to build on the way that Jisc already works with partner organisations, taking it to a deeper level. The five partner organisations have each identified issues that are proving difficult to manage within their particular areas of interest, and a number of these have been developed into projects to take forward.
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Although only the 2nd October, this month is already turning into a a very busy time for AIM related activities and news. As I'm typing this I am listening to the live stream from the VAMP/FIM4R/REFEDs meeting and wishing I was in Espoo. If, like me, you haven't made it to Finland you can catch up with what's happening at https://connect.funet.fi/vamp or by following #REFEDS and #FIM4R on Twitter.
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There is currently a lot of interest in being able to use Shibboleth with Office 365. If your institution is looking into this then the following resources may be useful. If you know of any others, feel free to add them as a comment.
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11th June 2012 saw the first meeting of what will hopefully become a regular event looking at identity, personal data and personal clouds (#idday). Organised by Tony Fish (@tonyfish) and facilitated by Kaliya Hamlin (@identitywoman) the unconference was like a smaller, London version of IIW http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/.
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GDS, the Government Digital Service, yesterday published an open consultation on the nine draft Identity Assurance Principles developed by the Identity Assurance Programme's Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group.
