The problems of identity and personal-information management over the Internet remain unsolved, despite much debate and a number of competing initiatives. Could an identity infrastructure become a shared service for use across sectors, operating in a simple and secure manner and protecting the privacy of personal information? The OII, with the support of the Joint...

This report focuses on the semantic web and other metadata, digital identity managment and biometrics, radio frequency identification (RFID) and sensors, the geospatial web and location-based services, mesh networking, grid computing and new computing technologies.