Federated Electronic Identity (FEIDE)

Norway , Unknown to Unknown

Compendium: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

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Background

Users know that schools have correct information about them, and if anything is wrong they can contact their own school and have it corrected once and for all. Users know that FEIDE is careful about who obtains data about them, and that users themselves are informed about which data are used where. The schools know that FEIDE sets requirements for the services, and is restrictive about distributing personal data. FEIDE makes it possible for the services to serve hundreds of thousands of meticulously registered users, without even storing their data in a user directory.
 
The motivation of the initiative
 
Increased interoperability in the education sector.
 
Participants
 
All educational institutions, private and public.

Aims and targets

Objectives of the initiative
 
FEIDE is based on the principle that every user in the educational sector — pupil, student or employee — receives a user name from their school, college or university, which can be used throughout the sector. The same user name works everywhere, both at the user’s own organisation and for shared national services, with the same password or certificate.
 
Target group
 
FEIDE is an identity management system on a national level for the educational sector in Norway.
 
Methods applied to reach the objective (technological and/or pedagogical)
 
Not available.
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