David Simonsen
ORG WAYF
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BIO
David Simonsen is Executive Manager for the Danish eID federation WAYF - Where Are You From. Areas of special interest are visualisations of the economic impact of identity federation, scalability of architectures, usability and privacy (users' consent to exchange of personal information among others), federation operator role, cross domain federation etc.
2010: member of the TERENA networking conference program committee
2009-: member of the steering commitee for Kalmar2 (www.kalmar2.org)
2007-: member of ECAM, European commitee for Academic Middleware
2005-2007: co-chair of TERENA's mobility task force (out come: www.eduroam.org)
2003: Candidate in IT from the IT University of Copenhagen (www.itu.dk)
Before that 5 years in molecular biology at Copenhagen University.
2001: member of the Danish government's IT-forum
2000-2001: member of the advisory board for the establishment of the Danish Virtual University
David also takes part in the public debate on privacy issues.