1. Feide is a identity management system on a national level for the educational sector in Norway. Federated Electronic Identity for Norwegian Education Tromsø, the world’s nothernmost university city

2.  A service provider that is implementing FEIDE FEIDE is managed by UNINETT  A portal owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research  National common gateway for easy access to everything you need to know about education Course description repository Occupations description repository, NEW Learning Content repository Learning content publishing framework

4.  A concept based on the principle that every user in the educational sector - pupil, student or employee - receives a user name from their school, college or university, which can be used throughout the sector (both commercial and public services)  FEIDE is partly founded by institutions (campuses and service providers) and partly founded directly by the Ministry

5.  One username  One password  Do not need to register information at each service, automatic updates from campus information  Informed consent for personal data transfer  Familiar log-in page may increase security

6.  Access for all Feide users  No local administration of user database  Feide handles login and gives high quality data about users  One contract with Feide eliminates bi- lateral contracts with all identity providers

7.  Goal: all public schools in 2010  Today Universities: All operative University college: 75 % Upper secondary school (high school): 50%  100% during summer 2009 primary and lower secondary school  Only started Aproach Institutional Local Authority

8.  Based on SAML 2.0 (Not shibboleth witch is SAML 1.0 based)  Single sign-on  All log-on is run through feide.no as a middleware service  All user data is controlled and maintained on campus institutions (LDAP)

9.  Bibsys.no (Sentralized library service) Bibsys.no  Fag.utdanning.no Fag.utdanning.no

10.  The chicken and the egg The institutions hesitated to implement FEIDE because the lack of services The Service providers hesitated to implement because the lack of users  We have to identity providers in Norway 1.FEIDE.no: Education identity provider 2.minside.no (mypage.no): governmental services (Tax, medical information, address of residence, unemployment benefits etc…. )

11.  Most ID-providers (campus) is using FEIDE password / username but with a local login routine and not single-sign-on It would be better if they where using the “FEIDE single sign-on” service for local services as well (LMS/VLE, e-mail etc ) Then the user would already be logged on at external services

12.  User are commonly redirected to an external login-page. This is bad usability and many users are confused by this  Data quality Few attributes are mandatory No attribute for subject or discipline User role not suited for the primary and lower secondary school  (student, employee, faculty, staff, alum, affiliate)

13.  Authorization to content The publishing industries want to have control of the business model  Personalization My subject, my curriculum, my content  Web 2.0 Get people together Same school, same subject  A closer connection to the VLE

14.  Personal identification number  FEIDE username ( @ )  User role (employee, student, member, faculty)  Name of the Organization the user are connected to. (legal name, short name, common name)  Given name and surname of user  (Username local institution)  E-mail  Legal organization number

15.  7 universities, 46 university colleges (210 842 persons)  Extensive collaboration on electronic services in higher education BIBSYS and other library services FS and MSTAS student registry systems Administrative systems: finance, HR, archive, invoice, High performance computing, super-computers and grids  Schools (865 000 persons, plus parents) 454 upper secondary schools owned by 19 regions Around 4500 schools owned by 430 municipalities