Vendor 101
Chapter 2: The How
In 2015, a group of education end users, marketplace providers, and non-profits gathered to address a common and growing “pain point” for all that needed addressing – student data privacy!
The group agreed to establish a collaborative that would develop tools, effective practices and templates to support “tactical student privacy” between schools, states and vendors yet open-up opportunities for marketplace providers to simplify and expand their marketplace offerings. Not wanting to create a new entity, the collaborative was formed under the non-profit Access 4 Learning Community.
Level Setting
- Non-Profit started in 1997
- Membership driven with schools, districts, regional and state agencies, other professional organizations and marketplace providers in the Community
- Collaboratively develops technical blueprints for data to move safely and securely between school software applications
- Used in every state with Communities in 4 Countries
- Special Interest Group of A4L Community started in 2015
- Maintains its own governance, oversight and resource support
- Numerous stakeholders addressing data privacy “Pain Points”
- Working on projects identified by members
- Resource Registry is the home of thousands of agreements, vendor products and numerous tools for application management
How are the two related?
The A4L Community is the technical standards non-profit collaboration focused on interoperability and secure data exchanges.
The SDPC is a SIG under the A4L umbrella.
Privacy AND interoperability in ONE place!