Sarah Porter is Head of Innovation at JISC and has worked in the higher education sector for the last 12 years, in a variety of institutional and national roles. Her particular interest is in how technology can enhance education and research; in particular the central importance of technology-users, institutional processes and practices, and education's broader political and cultural context.

The JISC mission is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT to support education and research. The Innovation Group leads national and global collaborations and development programmes and activities that support core themes in the JISC strategy. The core themes are e-learning, e-research, e-administration, e-infrastructure and digital content and the JISC works closely with colleges and universities to carry out action research, and develop advice and guidance, products and services.

Presentation
Strategic Steps in Enterprise Architecture - Transforming ICT in Education
Higher education in the UK is a 26 billion euro economic sector and spends 1 billion euro annually on ICT, part of the 3.5 billion euro UK market to ICT in education. With funding under pressure and competition for students increasing the community is at the early stages of adopting enterprise architecture methods to improve the effectiveness and impact of ICT investment.

JISC is has just launched a programme of three pilot projects in major universities to evaluate the enterprise architecture approach and TOGAF in particular. To support the programme JISC and the University of Cardiff, Kings College London and Liverpool John Moores University have become members of The Open Group, to learn from the community and contribute their knowledge and experience as they take their first steps with TOGAF.

After introducing JISC and its role in the UK's national education e-strategy, Sarah will describe the emerging e-Framework for higher education and the wider international context, and why enterprise architecture is now a priority issue. She will also describe the new programme and collaboration with The Open Group and highlight the issues and challenges facing the community in adopting the enterprise architecture approach. To conclude Sarah will speak about the mutual benefit she sees in interaction with the wider community of Enterprise Architecture practitioners and invite engagement with the programme.

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