Following the outcomes of last year's event, where the ePortfolio conference was extended to include the digital identity (Liberty Alliance project)  and human resource standardisation (HR-XML) communities (the HCSIT Summit), the conclusions were that the issues of ePortfolio and digital identity are intrinsically connected and should be discussed in the same forum. This is why, from now on, the International ePortfolio conference will become the International ePortfolio and Digital Identity Conference, the Human Capital and Social Innovation Technology Summit.

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breaking boundaries for human capital development and social innovation

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This year's conference challenge is "breaking boundaries for human capital development and social innovation." The objective is to explore how digital technologies, and in particular ePortfolios and digital identity, are transforming individual, organisational and community learning and development, creating an opportunity for the emergence of new models and paradigms in the field of learning, employment and social inclusion, contributing to finding the solution to the challenges we are facing today, and will be facing tomorrow, in building an inclusive and sustainable knowledge economy and society.
In order to address this year's conference challenge, a number of tracks will be organised along the following dimensions:

Technologies	Processes	Sectors	Actors
ePortfolio Digital Identity Social computing Trust (incl. identification, authentification) Learning management (incl. Personal Learning Environments) Data mining Graph visualisation Concept mapping Web 2.0 Architectures Interoperability (incl. technical standards and conformance testing)	Policy making Learning & teaching Lifelong learning Formal and informal learning Assessment Recognition and accreditation of competencies Competency management Training and development Knowledge management Innovation Quality Employability & employment Economic development Social inclusion	Initial education (incl. pupils, teachers and admin, etc.) Continuing education (incl. tutors, trainers, trainees, etc.) Employment (career guidance and counselling, job boards, etc.) Healthcare (patients, nurses, doctors, admin staff, etc.) Voluntary sector and community development Engineering	Individuals Organisations Communities (incl. professional bodies and social networks) Cities Regions

When submitting a contribution in a track, we invite the authors to indicate in the keywords which technologies / processes / sectors and actors they intend to address:

• Track # 1: From ePortfolio to digital identity 
• Track # 2: Management, recognition and accreditation of competencies 
• Track # 3: Employability and employment
• Track # 4: Healthcare
  
• Track # 5: Personal and organisational learning and knowledge management
• Track # 6: Designing  eStrategies within regions and sectors
• Track # 7: Identification, authentification, trust and privacy
  
• Track # 8: Information system architectures, data representation and technologies
• Track # 9:  Implementation and scalability

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