Access & Identity Management Programme Call August 7, 2009
Posted by chriscb in : Uncategorized , add a commentThis 08/09 call from the Access & Identity Management Programme has just been issued. Within the call there are the following two strands: Innovation and Level of Assurance. This blog posting is intended to provide a brief summary of the contents of this call.
Innovation
The aim this Grant Funding Call is to take a broad look at a set of themes and cross themes within the area of Access and Identity Management. This Call is not intended to be too prescriptive.
The themes within this strand are user centricity, granularity, delegation, n-tier, accounting / auditing. Within each theme the following cross themes can be applied: technology and tools, interoperability, use cases, policy and licensing. Bids may choose any of these cross themes within any theme.
It should be noted that this is not just a technology problem and that “softer” projects will also be considered.
Level of Assurance
The aim of this strand is to widen the understanding of Levels of Assurance (LoA) and to show how the concepts might work in practice. Under this strand the JISC is prepared to fund 2 to 3 small scale demonstrators that are looking to demonstrate solutions to Levels of Assurance (LoA) from the perspective of the service provider, e.g. publishers, as well as a service consumer, e.g. universities and university departments. The JISC is particularly interested in a partnership between provider and consumer.
Funding
Access & Identity Management: Innovation
Total Funding of £1M
Max Funding per project of between £50,000 and £150,000
Project Duration – 6 to 15 months
Access & Identity Management: Level of Assurance
Total Funding of £0.6M
Max Funding per project of between £200,000 and £300,000
Project Duration – 12 to 15 months
Background
Access and Identity Management is a key component of many initiatives across JISC and as such the Innovation Group works closely with the Services and Collections Teams. This work involves both the support and expansion of the UK Access Management Federation as well as looking at how new developments can both improve on this service and how innovation might help increase the uptake of access to resources and information within the community.
Further Information
The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12 noon GMT on Monday 19th October 2009.
The JISC is holding a community briefing event where potential bidders will be given information about the background to the call, its objectives and the bidding process. Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions of JISC Executive staff .This meeting will take place Thursday 17th September 2009 in Birmingham. Members of the community are invited to register for the meeting online from 7th August 2009. More information is available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/09/aimcallbriefing.aspx.
The call document is available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/funding/2009/08/0809aim.doc.
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For further information please contact the Programme Manager (c.brown@jisc.ac.uk) or tweet (#AIMCall09).