D11.1: Collection of Topics and Clusters of Mobility and Identity – Towards a Taxonomy of Mobility and Identity

Title: INTRODUCTION

Introduction

Mobility and Identity are the crucial topics in Work Package 11 of the FIDIS NoE. As deliverable D11.1 is the starting point of more elaborated explorations in the domain of mobile identities (in the next deliverables of the Work Package 11 of FIDIS), this chapter will provide some conceptual and sociological issues concerning identity, mobile identity, mobility and mobile identity management. 

When developing technological and legal solutions in the domain of (mobile) identity management, it is important to keep in mind that mobile identity is usually perceived as an idem identity type. That type of identity shows only one side of identity. The ipse identity type and its relation with mobile idem identity should not be ignored. While in general technological and legal thinkers mainly concentrate on an idem mobile identity type, the aim of this chapter is to stress the link between idem identity and ipse identity building. When designing mobile identity management systems, it is important to keep this link in mind so that trusted, secured, privacy-protected and identity-friendly identity management systems in mobile applications and environments are designed, that empower citizens in the process of identity building.

This chapter is organised as follows: Firstly the concept identity will be discussed (cp. chapter ); secondly the concept of mobile identity is discussed (cp. chapter ). Mobility and mobile technologies are explored in chapter . Finally, section discusses the concept of mobile identity management.