[October 15, 2008] New Liberty Alliance Group Focuses on Identity Management in the Education and Human Resources Sectors Tweet PARIS, October 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - Public Group Targeting Interoperability Across Education and Human Resources Applications and Services Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trustworthy Internet for businesses, governments and people worldwide, today announced the launch of the public Liberty Alliance Human Resources and Education Special Interest Group (SIG). The goal of the group is to foster interoperability, security and user privacy across online identity-enabled solutions in the global education and human resources sectors. The Human Resources and Education (HR-EDU) SIG will hold its first public face-to-face meeting on October 22 at the ePortfolio & Digital Identity 2008 conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Members of the SIG include representatives from EIfEL, Entr'ouvert, EuroCV, IMS Global, iProfile.org, the French Ethics & Recruiting Association, the French Recruiting Syntec Syndicate, the OpenID European Foundation, Stepstone, Symlabs, Synergetics, 3s Unternehmens-beratung GmbH and the University of Kent. The group is working to advance the adoption of proven interoperable, secure and privacy-respecting Liberty Alliance specifications in education and human resources, and collaborating with other communities and specifications bodies to promote open standards and best practices for digital identity management in the education and human resources sectors. According to Marc Van Coillie, CTO with EIfEL and chair of the new Liberty Alliance HR-EDU SIG, "The formation of the new Liberty Alliance group marks an important milestone in bringing the education and human resources industries together to foster interoperability across online applications and services." About the Liberty Alliance HR-EDU SIG Liberty Alliance members form special interest groups to solve regional, national, international and vertical-specific identity management challenges. The Human Resources and Education SIG is Liberty Alliance's ninth open-to-the-public special interest group. During the October 22 face-to-face meeting members of the HR-EDU SIG will establish priorities for advancing interoperability and data portability among education and human resources applications. All individuals and organizations in the data portability, identity management, education and human resources sectors are encouraged to attend this public event. More information about the HR-EDU SIG, including how to join the group's mail list and how to register for the October 22 meeting, is available by visiting the group's wiki at http://wiki.projectliberty.org/index.php/HR-EDU_SIG CONTACT: English: Russell DeVeau [email protected] French: [email protected] Liberty Alliance English, Russell DeVeau, [email protected], or French, [email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]