Welcome to the South African Identity Federation (SAFIRE) — the national academic identity federation for the South African research and higher education community.
Latest News
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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UFS joins SAFIRE
(2020-07-13)
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The University of the Free State have signed the Participation Agreement and completed the technical integration. UFS are now a fully functioning identity provider. Welcome UFS!
Impact of the commencement of POPIA
(2020-06-23)
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Yesterday President Cyril Ramaphosa proclaimed the commencement of the bulk of the remainder of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) from 1 July 2020. This sets in motion a number of things, including a requirement for compliance within one year of commencement.
POPIA has profound implications for the way South Africans handle personal information, and particularly for services like identity federation.
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