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Event synopsis

The increasing diversity of Information Communication Technologies and their equally diverse range of uses in personal, professional and official capacities raise challenging questions of identity in a variety of contexts. Each communication exchange contains an identifier which may, or may not, be intended by the parties involved. What constitutes an identity, how do new technologies affect identity, how do we manage identities in a globally networked information society? 

Both IFIP and FIDIS take a holistic approach to technology and support interdisciplinary exchange, and so contributions combining technical, social, ethical or legal perspectives were solicited. A series of keynote speeches (see Annex 2) provided a focus for the theme of the Summer School – Social and Political Dimension of Identity, Identity Management Architectures, Identity & Privacy in Social Communities, Identity Theft, Transparency and User-Controlled Identity Management, ICT Implants, eHealth and Ethical Challenges, Identity& Mobility – and the contributions from participants enhanced the ideas generated by the keynote speeches.

The event took the form of an academic conference, with keynote speakers and presentations of research by the participants. For submitted work, the review process consisted of two steps: First contributions for presentation at the Summer School were selected based on a review of submitted short papers by the Summer School Programme Committee (see Annex 1). Successful papers were presented and discussed at the Summer School event during structured workshop sessions (see Annex 2). After the Summer School, authors had the opportunity to submit their final full papers, where they addressed also the issues raised during the discussions at the Summer School. These papers were again reviewed and those included in the subsequent proceedings were carefully selected by the International Summer School Programme Committee and by additional Reviewers according to common quality criteria. The proceedings include both keynote papers and submitted papers accepted by the Programme Committee and have subsequently been published by the official IFIP publisher Springer Science and Business Media. Where applicable, students who actively participated, in particular those who presented a paper, were eligible to receive a course certificate from Karlstad University which awarded 3 ECTS at PhD Level.