IoS Forum - Europortfolio
While emerging technologies and practices are leading towards a more person-centric Internet (social networks, user generated contents, ePortfolio, personal health records, vendor relationships management systems, Web 2.0, etc.) the current Internet architecture, which is still organisation-centric, leads to increased fragmentation of personal data across an ever growing number of services and places. This fragmentation ultimately leads to a loss of privacy and the loss of trust in personal and business relationships.
Moreover, while legislation states that we have the right to rectify personal records hosted by service providers, this is rarely enforced, simply because it is impossible to keep track of all the places where we leave and abandon personal data. Furthermore, legislation does not state our right to personal data sharing, e.g. the right to share our personal health records or our bank credit records with the service of our choice: our personal data remains under the control of organisations, not us.
IOSF is the organiser of ePIC, the International ePortfolio and Identity Conference. The Internet of Subjects Forum supports Europortfolio, the European network dedicated to the development of ePortfolios in Europe.
Personal data is ours! ePortfolio for all!
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