Using co-design to improve access to resources
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.
One of the areas identified by the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) is that "..identity management systems sometimes fail to recognise people for who they really are, which means they are denied access to resources and services that they are entitled to".
As part of Jisc's AIM Strategy a co-design project is looking at addressing the social and political barriers to good identity management and Mark Toole, director of information services at the University of Stirling and one of SCONUL's representatives for the co-design project has just published a blog post on this. To find out more about visit http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/identity-strategies-to-improve-access-to-resources-29-oct-2013.
