Task 2: Outreach and Dissemination
Task Leader organisation: GÉANT, Alessandra Scicchitano alessandra.scicchitano@geant.org
The objective of this task is to reach out targeted user communities and promote the use of federated access. The approach of the task will consider different aspects:
• Technical aspect: Various existing technical materials from NRENs, pioneer projects and communities will be evaluated, repackaged to convey a coherent message, and stored in a central repository for use by project partners when talking to different user groups. As federations’ technical implementations and specific policy conditions differ, the results produced will be rather high-level. The material will be used to approach selected user communities to persuade them to join their national federation. The way in which these events will be organised will depend on the results of task 1.
• Legal aspect: There have been significant efforts to enable the exchange of user data within the federations in compliance with the law. National federations have all prepared guidelines for their users, explaining how federated access in fact preserves users’ privacy. At European level the eduGAIN team has invested resources to implement and deploy a Data protection Code of Conduct for Service Providers [CoC] and to promote the key messages of this approach. This task will work closely with national federations and the eduGAIN team to prepare materials for distributed training to targeted communities. This will help institutions utilise the potential of federated AAI for their users.
• Liaison with other projects/communities: Many existing projects and communities already focus on reaching out to user communities. Working closely with some of them will enable this task to have a bigger impact in terms of outreach, and will minimise duplication of effort across the whole spectrum. It is a component of this task to analyse and define target communities in order to ensure a multitude of community types can be reached by dissemination. The consortium partners’ existing relationships, networks, and communication channels will be used to maximise the true impact.
• General Dissemination about AARC results: All AARC results will be promoted via NA2.
During the first year of AARC, the task has presented the project at different conferences and meetings to raise awareness.
The list of the main presentation is published on the AARC website: https://aarc-project.eu/documents/presentations/