SPU joins SAFIRE
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!
News Archive
News and announcements concerning the South African Identity Federation.
SAFIRE baseline changes
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
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
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
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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Royal Society of Chemistry joins SAFIRE
In April 2020, SAFIRE was approached by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) who expressed interest in joining SAFIRE as a Service Provider.
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Kortext textbook solutions accessible via your home institution
While Kortex have temporarily made limited free access available under their Free Student eTextbook Programme FSTP, federated authentication using institutional credentials is also now possible.
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Call to Action: The international science community needs help responding to COVID-19
The international science community has asked for help in connecting researchers and scientists to collaborations that are rapidly forming in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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UFH joins SAFIRE
The University of Fort Hare have signed the Participation Agreement and joined SAFIRE as a fully functioning identity provider. Welcome UFH!
SAFIRE user interface available in Sesotho
This Day of Reconciliation we’re pleased to announce that key parts of SAFIRE federation hub (including the transfer notices) are now available in Sesotho. This brings the number of South African official languages supported by the federation to five.
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