The conference will be the opportunity to present the results of advanced research projects such as TAS3 (www.tas3.eu) and initiatives such as Kantara (kantarainitiative.org)

Education & lifelong learning

Learning records, ePortfolios, personal learning environments: the objective of this track is to explore how individual learners are empowered as the authors and the architects of their own personal and community learning environments to manage their digital identity?

• Issues: how to combine seamlessly individual, community and organisational learning spaces? What skills and competencies do learners, educators, instructional designers, human resource managers need to develop to harness the real power of digital identities?

• Topics: ePortfolios, personal learning spaces, digital identity construction, making learning visible, self-directed learning, continuing professional development, community learning, communities of practice, informal learning, learning cities, regions and territories, user generated contents, personal discovery services, user generated contexts, learning resources rights management, learning management systems, wikis, blogs, mlearning.

Work & employability

Employment records, competency records, personal knowledge management systems: the objective of this track is to explore the link between individual systems used to manage one's employability (e.g. through continuing professional development, recognition of prior learning) and organisational learning systems designed for competency and knowledge management.

• Issues: how to combine seamlessly personal and organisational competency development systems? How to combine seamlessly individual and organisational learning?
• Topics: organisational ePortfolio, knowledge management, competency frameworks, competency development and management, professional communities identity, recognition of prior learning, collaborative learning, organisational learning environments, collective knowledge construction, digital rights management of personal / community / organisational documents and resources.

Healthcare & wellness

Personal health records (PHR) medical records, personal health management systems: the objective of this track is to explore the link between individual systems of healthcare systems and professional practice.

• Issues: how do Personal Health Records transform current healthcare and wellness practices? Are legislation and professional practice up to date?
• Topics: patients as learners, communities of patients, communities of practice of healthcare professionals, ethics, data protection, privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), encryption technologies, role based access control, early warning systems and outbreak detection, quality of service and quality tagging.

Business & trade

Business records, credit records, transaction records, vendor relationship management systems: the objective of this track is to explore the benefits for individuals and businesses of a better control of personal data by clients and prospects of business services.

• Issues: how can vendors and service providers benefit from vendors relationship management systems? What competencies for citizens and customers?
• Topics: relationship management systems (CRM & VRM), Web 2.0 business directories, merging white and yellow pages, profiling, consumer protection, consumer syndication.

Policies & citizenship

Digital identities governance: The objective of this track is to explore how personal data and digital identities contribute to the construction of individual and collective identities.

• Issues: what role for public authorities in identity governance? What relation between individual and collective identities?
• Topics: Identity Governance Framework, digital identities and citizenship, digital self, autobiography, story telling, professional identity, community identity, social reputation, privacy and intimacy, standards adoption, social tagging, folksonomies, smart mobs, social activism, social control (reputation, referral, sanction, negotiation, trust, privacy).

Technologies & infrastructures

The Internet of Subjects: the objective of this track is to explore how to make the Internet a more person-centric environment ―the interaction between the growing individualisation of technologies with the development of social computing and social networks

• Issues: how to create a space where people can seamlessly interact together without having to be registered in pre-defined social environments? How can digital identity management frameworks (Kantara, OpenID, CardSpace, etc.)  create a person-centric architecture architectures?
• Topics: federation of identities and services, OAuth, OpenID, SAML, PDS/CDS, information Cards, R-Cards, XRI, XRD, XDI, SEO for people, Activity Streams, Syndication of contents, implementation, scalability, interoperability, trust, mobility, virtual reality, avatars, geolocalisation, aggregation vs integration.