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

Title: CONCLUSION

Conclusion

The objective of this study is the identification, the description, and the application of the topics and elements in the fields of “mobility and identity”, exploring some of the essential concepts, fundamental to the work of Work Package 11. Starting from the work of FIDIS deliverable D3.3, not only technological aspects are included, but also socio-cultural, legal, and economical aspects are taken into consideration for this study and for the work of FIDIS Work Package 11:

• Starting with the socio-cultural aspect, this includes the term mobile identity, which is mainly used as a mobile idem identity type, meaning that in the process of identity building, people reflect about the mobile idem identities (which are third person perspectives) in order to constantly (re-)develop a sense of self (the ipse identity or the first person perspective).

• Furthermore, an overview of the European regulatory framework regarding the protection of privacy of the individual is given, presenting the questions of localisation and privacy protection of persons in mobile service / LBS scenarios.

• Last but not least, GSM and other communicational technologies are described as an example for the application of mobility and identity in the field of technology.

Due to the ongoing evolution of the presented concepts of “mobility and identity” and “mobile identity”, this study cannot be exhaustive. It represents the foundation towards a taxonomy of mobility and identity, which could be used as a tool facilitate the circulation and the creation of new ideas related to this topic. Moreover it should allow to identify further overlaps as well as future research topics for FIDIS and especially for Work Package 11 (cp. chapter ). Finally, the researched concepts and terminology is added to the FIDIS concept of identity or the “FIDIS Wiki on Identity related Terms”, in order to broaden the horizon of classical identity concepts, presented in other FIDIS deliverables.