PICOS

The objective of the project is to advance the state of the art in technologies that provide privacy-enhanced identity and trust management features within complex community-supporting services that are built on Next Generation Networks and delivered by multiple communication service providers. The approach taken by the project is to research, develop, build trial and evaluate an open, privacy-respecting, trust-enabling identity management platform that supports the provision of community services by mobile communication service providers.

PICOS will develop and build a state-of-the-art platform for providing the trust, privacy and identity management aspects of community services and applications on the Internet and in mobile communication networks.

PICOS will first review contemporary research in relevant disciplines. Work will then focus on platform design and prototype development in order to create interoperable, open, privacy respecting identity and trust management tools that can be demonstrated to the public. These will be used to construct community application prototypes by leading industry partners in close cooperation with the targeted community. Finally the prototypes will be trialed and self-evaluated by PICOS concerning usability, ergonomics, legal issues, trust and privacy.