Welcome to the South African Identity Federation (SAFIRE) — the national academic identity federation for the South African research and higher education community.
Latest News
UNIVEN joins SAFIRE
(2021-10-05)
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The University of Venda have signed the Participation Agreement and completed the technical integration. UNIVEN are now a fully functioning identity provider. Welcome UNIVEN!
SPU joins SAFIRE
(2021-06-10)
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Sol Plaatje University have signed the Participation Agreement, as well as completed the technical integration and are now a fully functioning identity provider in SAFIRE. Welcome SPU!
SAFIRE baseline changes
(2021-03-31)
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Following a period of consultation and starting from 31 March 2021, we’ve made several changes to SAFIRE’s idp- & sp-requirements and to the minimum attributes required for participation.
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Announcing the safire-libs@lists mailing list
(2021-03-26)
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For some time, a key use case for SAFIRE has been integration with various library services such as publishers and data providers. Despite their importance to the federation, thus far we’ve not had a communication channel aimed explicitly at systems librarians and library staff making these integrations work. That’s about to change
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