eduGAIN
What is eduGAIN?
eduGAIN is an international service connecting research communities and higher education identity federations around the world. eduGAIN provides an efficient, flexible way for participating institutions, and their affiliated users and services, to interconnect authentication and authorisation infrastructures. eduGAIN is a global service with more than 70 federations participating in or in the process of joining eduGAIN, with more than 4,200 identity providers and 3,200 service providers. eduGAIN now supports nearly 30 million students, staff and researchers around the world (see https://edugain.org/). SIFULAN Federation has been accepted as the 57th member of eduGAIN since 2018 and SIFULAN Federation members can now access such services (subject to authorisation by respective institutions/service providers).
Key Features
Fully compliant with EU privacy laws:
User data only known to their home institutions.
Global coverage:
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eduGAIN participants span Europe, the Americas and Asia Paci fic.
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Operated in Europe for the benefi t of the global research and education community.
Benefits
For Institutions of Higher Learnings and Research Organisations
Connecting to eduGAIN enables Malaysian researchers to collaborate with partners from international research and education facilities. Benefits to researchers include:
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Access to a wider range of research and education services
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Easy and secure access to services — a single username and password for all services connected to eduGAIN and SIFULAN Federation.
For Service Providers
eduGAIN makes it simpler to share national eResearch infrastructure with international partners. By connecting to eduGAIN, services will become available to a larger audience. Benefits to service providers include:
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Secure access to users from more than 4200 organisations around the world with a single integration
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eduGAIN subscribers manage user identities which reduces the support and risk for a service provider.
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