The objective of this task is to reach out to targeted user communities, promote the use of federated access and convey the key messages and outcomes of the AARC project. The Task will adopt two different approaches:
- Outreach – Continue the outreach campaign started in AARC to optimise the uptake of federation identity, reaching out to communities that have not been approached during the two years of AARC. Liaising with other projects/communities and using existing relationships will facilitate the impact of the outreach work done in this Task.
- Communication – Facilitate the interaction and communication among the communities and between the communities and the infrastructures by means of two delivery platforms:
- The Community Engagement Forum – A forum for engaging with user communities. AARC2 will offer training to this group, open to anybody who is interested, and will promote AARC and AARC2 results to raise awareness. The group will also provide the right audience for presenting and receiving feedback on the progress of the pilots mapping each of the proposed use-cases.
- The AARC Engagement Group for Infrastructures (AEGIS) – The goal of the virtual Competence Centre is to handle communication with infrastructures to ensure that all key parties share the same vision and the same information about AARC2 and developments in the trust and identity area. The role of NA2 is to coordinate the effort and the results provided by all other Activities. NA2 will not provide any technical effort within the Competence Centre that requires expertise the Activity does not possess.
This Task will also develop all the necessary material to promote the work done in the other work packages. The task is also responsbile to organize and structure the project's internal meetings and to present the project at different conferences and meetings to raise awareness.
Main aspects
The approach of the task will consider different aspects:
- Technical aspect: Various existing technical materials from NRENs, pioneer projects and communities will be evaluated, repackaged to convey a coherent message, and stored in a central repository for use by project partners when talking to different user groups. As federations’ technical implementations and specific policy conditions differ, the results produced will be rather high-level. The material will be used to approach selected user communities to persuade them to join their national federation. The way in which these events will be organised will depend on the results of task 1.
- Legal aspect: There have been significant efforts to enable the exchange of user data within the federations in compliance with the law. National federations have all prepared guidelines for their users, explaining how federated access in fact preserves users’ privacy. At European level the eduGAIN team has invested resources to implement and deploy a Data protection Code of Conduct for Service Providers [CoC] and to promote the key messages of this approach. This task will work closely with national federations and the eduGAIN team to prepare materials for distributed training to targeted communities. This will help institutions utilise the potential of federated AAI for their users.
- Liaison with other projects/communities: Many existing projects and communities already focus on reaching out to user communities. Working closely with some of them will enable this task to have a bigger impact in terms of outreach, and will minimise duplication of effort across the whole spectrum. It is a component of this task to analyse and define target communities in order to ensure a multitude of community types can be reached by dissemination. The consortium partners’ existing relationships, networks, and communication channels will be used to maximise the true impact.
- General Dissemination about AARC results: All AARC results will be promoted via NA2.