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Smart University: Paving the way to next generation Identity Management
In the context of mobility, ambient intelligence and increasingly complex and evolving digital…
Book available: Profiling the European Citizen
In the eyes of many, one of the most challenging problems of the information society is that we are…
Call for Papers - 4th FIDIS/IFIP Internet Security & Privacy Summer School 2008
After the success of the 2007 IFIP/FIDIS Summer School, the focus of this Summer School to be held…
Welcome at FIDIS.net
FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) is a NoE (Network of Excellence) supported by the European Union under the 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development within the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority in the Action Line: "Towards a global dependability and security framework". read more…
Profiling the European Citizen
In the eyes of many, one of the most challenging problems of the information society is that we are faced with an ever expanding mass of information. Selection of the relevant bits of information seems to become more important than the retrieval of data as such: the information is all out there, but what it means and how we should act on it may be one of the big questions of the 21st century. If an information society is a society with an exponential proliferation of data, a knowledge society must be the one that has learned how to cope with this. Profiling technologies seem to be one of the most promising technological means to create order in the chaos of proliferating data. [Read more…]
Spotlight: Identity in a Networked World
The digitisation of identity may be regarded as a bottleneck in the engagement of citizens with Information Society services. Identity in such environment plays a central role and more and more tools are required to manage identity and deliver suitable services. Management of identity will constitute one of the first challenges for the future Europe in terms of mobility, accessibility and interoperability in order to facilitate online navigation and social (digital) interactions between European citizens in the Information Society. [read more]
