IAM Online January 12 - Persistent Identifiers in Education

[Valerie Vogel <vvogel () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

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IAM Online - Wednesday, January 12, 2011
3 p.m. EST / 2 p.m. CST / 1 p.m. MST / Noon PST
www.incommon.org/iamonline 
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A Panel Discussion About Persistent Identifiers for Education

A number of factors are coalescing around the need for a globally unique, persistent, non-reassigned, transparent 
identifier for each individual. Join our panel to hear about these factors during the next IAM Online.

Chief among these factors is the mobility of users across sectors and services and the rise of virtual and 
collaborative organizations. The movement towards state longitudinal data systems (that track academic progress of 
students from pre-school to postsecondary education) and the rollout of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in 
Cyberspace are forcing us to rethink the role of identifiers and credentials for education and beyond.

There remain a number of difficult technical, policy, and process issues, especially when personal identity, trust, 
privacy, and accountability must be considered. This panel discussion will explore some of the current technology and 
policy challenges presented by unique identifiers and credentials, as well as opportunities for establishing standards 
and practices for the education community and what is required for a global Identity, Credential, Access Management 
(ICAM) approach.

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Panelists

Keith Hazelton, Senior IT Architect, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Steve Midgley, Deputy Director, Office of Education Technology, United States Department of Education
Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy, Cornell University
Tim Poe, Senior Collaborative Technologist, MCNC
Tom Scavo, Operations Manager, InCommon
Bill Weems, Assistant VP for Academic Computing, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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Host: Chris Duffy, CIO, Peirce College

Moderator:
Rodney Petersen, Government Relations Officer and Director of the Cybersecurity Initiative, EDUCAUSE

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Connecting

We use Adobe Connect for slide sharing and audio: http://internet2.acrobat.com/iam-online.  

For more details, see www.incommon.org/iamonline. 
 
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ABOUT IAM Online

IAM Online is a monthly online education series including essentials of federated identity management, hot topics from 
the EDUCAUSE Identity and Access Management Working Group, and emerging topics in IAM. Experts provide overviews, 
answer questions and lead discussions. IAM is brought to you by InCommon in cooperation with Internet2 and the EDUCAUSE 
Identity and Access Management Working Group.