Federated Global Identity Management: Research Agenda & Outcomes

The paper define the problem situation of digital identification in ICT infrastructures from three perspectives: systems, end user and technology. It details the research agenda and outcomes in terms of: a collaborative research cycle, the project goals, high level requirements and features of the proposed system. Finally, the FeGIMa vision is elaborated in terms of two impacts, that outlines the benefits that accrue to heterogeneous global computing infrastructures: the first, being scientific and technological, the second being socio-economic together they outlines the impact on the vision Global Computing (GC). For the disparate community of global computing stakeholders the freedom obtained through the proposed technically innovative FeGIMa project results in the simplicity of “Single Sign on and Single Service Authentication SSO& SSA” thereby directly contributing to realising the vision of Information Society for All.