Education applications and the FAST project.

Jonathan GayCo-ordinator for Sheffield

FAST - Education

• Constant need for parental interactionExample – Parental Permissions

• Written permission an increasing issue– Was permission given?, by who?, when?, for what?– Laborious to administer– Missing permissions give rise to delay and cost

(and ultimately potential legal issues)

– Must be certain person giving permission is authorised to do so = Robust Identity is Key

FAST - Education

• FAST provides a framework for managing the parental permission process on-line– Rules based– Easy to manage (with alerts to flag up issues)– Permissions Digitally Signed and archived for

future reference• Generic approach that can easily be adapted

to other interactive processesSuch as.......

FAST - Education

• Free school meals (on going activity with Cabinet Office)

• School place application • Absence requests• Interaction with special needs processes• Etc.

W-SPES provides interoperability with identity schemes across Europe if needed.

Progress on interoperability of trust

• W-Spes allows the use of cross border certification via the trusted CA 'tool'

• Current applications– Designed to meet specific local need• Could be used as template for future applications

– Unlikely to need certificates from other jurisdictions (other CA's)• Even so, the capability is there

Pan European Challenge

• However, increasing numbers of cross boarder applications are emerging:

Example cross border applications

How do we achieve?

• How do we enable cross border applications using digital signatures from multiple CA's– W-SPES – of course!

• But do we have to build each new application from scratch?

• Could we not adopt a more generic approach?

Using FAST as a W-Spes enabled framework

What is FAST?

How can FAST help?FAST can work flow the signature process:

• IllustrationCA

WspeseForms

Work flow Engine

Signed Documents

API

FAST applications under development

W-SPES + FAST

Example• Permission to erect a grave stone (who)• Expenses claim form (Dundee)each could be turned into a generic application within the

FAST frame work for cross border use

Conclusion

Building W-Spes into secure transaction frame works such as FAST, delivers W-Spes as a generic service to all applications, rather than following a more laborious application-by- application approach.