PAVING THE WAY TO NEXT GENERATION IDENTITY MANAGEMENT (1 day and a half) Module designed and coordinated by Dr Sabine Delaitre, University of Malaga (UMA)

In the context of mobility, ambient intelligence and increasingly complex and evolving digital value chains, the individual becomes the central point of convergence for digital networks and services. Digital identity, its nature, assertion, negotiation, defence and use, is one of the most challenging issues of the coming years.

Because the digital world is widely appreciated, exploited and finally transformed by companies and users, it is quickly evolving; indeed different deployments are rapidly increasing such as platforms enabling online communities and other powerful tools, which extend our ability to access, share and manipulate information. Digital interactions are a growing reality and individuals or organisations become more and more components of digital networks where the representation of identities is the main gateway. Therefore and in this context, “Identity” becomes a broad concept relating to all forms of personal identifiers and data, and finally encompasses manifold aspects including traces, profile, presence, location data, collective being, avatars, self-presentation, reputation, etc. Hence, we are faced to a variety of technologies that promise to solve problems in the field of identity, identification, authentication and so on, in this new digital environment, which tends to blur the traditional boundaries between the private and the public space. The infrastructures have to be adapted and various trends emerge stemming from the modern world of distributed network services and around different concepts such as federated identity, trust models, reputation, social networks, access and compliance.

For the edition 2008, this module will introduce the basic components of IDM, describe digital identity as a key enabler for eServices access, and will discuss the new opportunities that digital identities provide for individuals and organizations.

Who should attend:
IT managers, researchers, Head of IT from various industries: security, healthcare, law enforcement, welfare, physical access control…any person who has interest in learning about Identity Management in order to understand the electronic applications´ range, the societal dimension of the digital identity and its implications.

What you will learn:
This module will introduce the basic components of IDM, describe digital identity as a key enabler for eServices access, and will discuss the new opportunities that digital identities provide for individuals and organizations. 

Key topics:
Digital Identity - eGovernment, eServices - Mobile communities - Societal dimension


SEPT. 16

9.00 am
Welcome and Introduction
Sabine Delaitre, UMA (Spain)

9.15 am - 12.30 am
Citizen-Controlled eIdentity Management: Combining Maximal Trustworthiness with Data Minimality
Prof Dr. Reinhard Riedl, Berne University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

Contents:
• summary of European principles for privacy protection
• concept of anonymous identity
• concept for anonymous transactions
• case study: anonymity on smart campus
• case study: anonymous e-taxation solution
• conclusions: anonymous end-to-end protocols work, wireless communication protocols may break anonymity, e-government services resulting from duties are easier to implement anonymously than those resulting from rights.

2.00 pm - 5.30 pm
Privacy in Identity Management for eGovernment
Xavier Huysmans, Isabel (Belgium)
 
• basic building bricks of eGovernment
(a.o. information modeling, authentic sources, service integration in SOA etc.)
• basic components of IDM in eGovernment
(a.o. registration, identification, authentication, authorization, user management, auditing, ...)
• privacy and data protection in Identity Management for eGovernment
(a.o. how to enforce privacy and data protection rights through identity management in an eGovernment context, when a user-centric identity management system based on pseudonym management is not a solution for large scale roll out?).


SEPT. 17

9.00 am - 10.00 am
Towards identity management for eServices
Ernesto Damiani, Dep. Information Technology, Milan Faculty (Italy)

10.30 am - 12.00 am
Identity management for online and mobile communities - a legal perspective
Eleni Kosta, K.U. Leuven (Belgium)

Online and mobile users leave traces of their information, with dangers for their privacy and security. In this talk the requirements for privacy enhancing identity and trust management tools will be presented, approached from a legal viewpoint. Along these lines, the FP7 project PICOS (Privacy and Identity Management for Community Services), which is dealing with the issues of privacy and identity management in mobile and online communities, will be presented.

12.00 am - 1.00 pm
Identity management: new opportunities
Sabine Delaitre, UMA (Spain)