ePortfolio & Digital Identity 2008

ePortfolio & Digital Identity 2008 is the 6th edition of the key international event for the growing community of professionals interested in, and working with, ePortfolios and digital identities. It brings together policy-makers, researchers, teachers, trainers, human resource managers and technologists. As a thematic event devoted to one domain, it allows an in-depth and broad exploration of the issues - and results in real outcomes. Past events have resulted in the creation of national and international networks, contribution to ePortfolio policy, the launch of the ePortfolio for All campaign, progress in ePortfolio interoperability through the Plugfest and contribution to standardisation bodies, establishing partnerships with other communities in the field of digital identity and human resource standards, transnational projects and numerous publications.

This year's conference challenge is "breaking boundaries for human capital development and social innovation." The objective is to explore how digital technologies, and in particular ePortfolios and digital identity, are transforming individual, organisational and community learning and development, creating an opportunity for the emergence of new models and paradigms in the field of learning, employment and social inclusion, contributing to finding the solution to the challenges we are facing today, and will be facing tomorrow, in building an inclusive and sustainable knowledge economy and society.

The conference is organised in 9 tracks:

• Track # 1: From ePortfolio to digital identity 
• Track # 2: Management, recognition and accreditation of competencies 
• Track # 3: Employability and employment
• Track # 4: Healthcare
• Track # 5: Personal and organisational learning and knowledge management
• Track # 6: Designing  eStrategies within regions and sectors
• Track # 7: Identification, authentification, trust and privacy
• Track # 8: Information system architectures, data representation and technologies
• Track # 9:  Implementation and scalability