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Jacob-Steen Madsen

Program Manager, WAYF

Biography

Jacob-Steen Madsen

Jacob has a background as project manager,  enterprise architect and development manager in larger public and private organisations.

His main area of interest is about identity in the digital world and digital learningspaces. Creating services and frameworks that empowers the individual is the key motivating factor for his work.

WAYF

WAYF

WAYF stands for Where Are You From and it is a Danish e-identity federation. WAYF currently connects some 2.000.000 e-identities at around 50 institutions. The number is rapidly growing as also hospitals, high schools, museums etc. are connecting. Also Iceland has connected institutions to WAYF, hereby recycling existing infrastructure in difficult times.

WAYF is financed by the Ministry of Science, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture. WAYF's core areas of competence are:

  • identitity management
  • role based access management
  • pseudonomisation
  • eID-federations
  • privacy and handling of personal data

Primo 2010 WAYF was connected to the Danish 'citizen login system' thereby allowing all citizens above the age of 15 to use WAYF as gateway to public services. Also Unilogin, the central database containing all Danish school pupils (around 500.000), teachers etc. has been connected.

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Presentation

How to save money and create better services in the world of trust

Case: WAYF

Track: Emerging technologies
Conference Day #1, Wednesday November 3rd, 16.00-17.00

Federations and trust-frameworks is emerging all over in new contexts. Maximising the value of investment in good ID-management systems is important for organisations - but they cannot always do the job themselves - federations can often facilitate a a better return on investment.

The session will go through the perspectives of inter-federations in terms of shared services and the challenges that needs to be addressed when trust-frameworks in different domains collide.

In this session Jacob-Steen will provide an overview on what seems to work in the world of identity federations and why. WAYF has learnt many lessons along the way, and Jacob-Steen will take you on a ride through failures and successes.

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