Category: Swiss edu-ID

The TERENA Networking Conference (TNC) is the largest European research networking conference. In his presentation Identity Management for Lifelong Learners Christoph Graf presented an overview of what SWITCH wants to achieve with an e-identity infrastructure.

At the beginning of the talk stands the promise of AAI: You as a student get one key, and with that you get access to all necessary resources and web services. However, due to the organization-centric nature of identity management in AAI there are two problems:

1. the student gets more than one key if he/she is affiliated with more than one university, and
2. the student has to give back the key when he/she leaves the university

The aim is a more user-centric infrastructure that allows a student to do everything with one key – a key that you can keep for a lifetime.

Watch and enjoy the video recording of Christoph’s presentation at https://tnc2013.terena.org/web/media/archive/4D (starting at minute 66).

SWITCH is happy to announce the start of the SWITCHportfolio pilot service: https://portfolio.switch.ch

The service SWITCHportfolio which is based on the open source product Mahara is offered to members (students, teachers, staff) of Swiss higher education institutions.

During the pilot phase we need to get feedback about SWITCHportfolio. Is this the kind of service you (student, teacher etc) expect? Do you have further requirements? Now is the time to shape the service according to your needs! Don’t miss that opportunity.

Before members of a university can use the service, the institution has to subscribe to it. Read the About section or contact us (portfolio-support@switch.ch) to subscribe a new institution.

Please read the About and FAQ section
https://www.switch.ch/portfolio/
with more information about the pilot service, FAQs and participating institutions. This page will be continuously updated during the pilot phase.

thanks for your interest – and don’t hesitate to send us your feedback