[OpenID] JISC wishes to fund a study GBP 50k into Open ID usage in academic community UK

[Mark Cross]

Saw this and thought of you lot! (Haven't seen it posted here... MC 
takes cover)
- Snorri, might be an idea to post this on the European OpenID site :-) 
or circulate well

Committees: JISC support of research committee1
JISC theme(s): Access management

Submission Deadline: 02 November 2007 12:00

JISC wishes to fund a study into Open ID. The study should examine the 
potential of OpenID within the academic community in a number of 
different areas in education and research, covering such aspects as:

    * Use cases for OpenID
    * Technical demonstrators of OpenID credential provision through a 
UK federation compliant IdP
    * Technical demonstrators of services using the OpenID credentials 
from the above
    * Recommendations for future use of OpenID in UK higher and further 
education including a realistic assessment of the potential issues in 
its use

A total of up to £50,000 is available for this project, inclusive of VAT 
and all expenses. The project will be for 6 months beginning in December 
2007
documents and multimedia

    * ITT: Review of OpenID use in Higher and Further Education
      Microsoft Word Document 82 Kb

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/funding/2007/10/openiditt.doc

Original URL:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2007/10/openiditt.aspx

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The mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is to 
provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT to support 
education and research.

JISC funds a national services portfolio (e.g. JANET) and a range of 
programmes (e.g. Users and Innovation: Personalising technologies) and 
projects (e.g. First World War poetry digital archive).

Cheers Mark Cross