Project factsheet

The purpose of ANIME is the structured research into the state and new strategies in providing inclusive identity management to service providers and users. ANIME will provide a closer analysis of identity management systems (IMS) with respect to e-inclusion. It may result in a number of open issues concerning security and privacy technologies and profiling in adaptive systems.

Accessability of information systems for all members of society, including children, elderly and disabled people all alike, is a strategic goal of most governments in Europe. Some research projects on e-inclusion and universal design, such as DIADEM or UNIMOD, aim at the improvement of user interfaces and transactions between people and computers. However, most services are based on one or more servers, and will be accessed through on-line technologies over the Internet. A core technology is the identification, authentication and the profiling of legitimate users of such systems, e.g. when users log on to work on their tax declaration on-line, or wish to maintain their on-line bank account. Unfortunately, many such services offer exactly one authentication method that might not suit all users well.

Many political initiatives support e-inclusion. Examples are the European i2010 initiative on e-Inclusion and the Riga Ministerial Declaration where 34 European countries expressed their strong commitment to promote an inclusive and barrier-free Information Society. Also, the Unites Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes access for persons with disabilities to new information and communications technologies and systems, including the Internet. E-Inclusion is a wide term covering both that of making ICT itself inclusive, and the use of ICT to achieve wider inclusion objectives in relation to economical, educational, socio-economic, racial, age- and class-related issues.

ANIME will provide new competence to the DART activities in Universal Design and information security by structuring this new view on security and identity management mechanisms away from one login that reaches the security goal towards Multi-channel, multi-modal, usable and secure identitiy management for all.

Other outcomes will be:

• Competence in inclusive identity management approaches
• A report on the state of inclusive identity management, and an overview of necessary research work to be done
• A framework on inclusive identity management
• Input to running and upcoming DART projects in Universal Design