Identity Management in Information Age Government: Exploring Concepts, Definitions, Approaches and Solutions

Our research question is the following: What could be a useful working definition of Identity Management in government at present? a) What are conceptualisations, definitions and approaches of IDM in government according to academic literature? b) Which e-authentication solutions have been developed in other jurisdictions

Governance Models for Interoperable Electronic Identities

Current implementations of electronic identity in Europe are rather diverse; they include state-driven identity management frameworks as well as private sector frameworks and different forms of public-private collaborations. This diversity may represent a major challenge for the deployment of information society services addressed towards the European internal market. This raises the question: How can we achieve interoperability of electronic identities across Europe, and potentially beyond Europe’s borders? This paper argues that the interoperability of electronic identity could be governed by a multi-stakeholder governance framework that brings together different parties with interests in the provision and use of electronic identities. Such a governance framework could, for example, consist in designing and operating a portal with common functionalities that allows interoperable authentication across multiple domains and contexts. Inspiration for the governance of such a portal could come both from existing successful implementations of electronic identity and from multi-stakeholder institutions that have proven useful in Internet governance.

Vote Casting in Any Preferred Constituency: A New Voting Channel

In our society a rising number of people change their residence regularly. Insofar, mobility seems to be necessary even on Election Day, which is the reason why an increasing number of eligible voters use the opportunity of postal voting. Thereby, the abidance by the election principles, especially the freedom and secrecy of elections, is automatically transferred into the private sector. This would not be necessary if eligible voters had the possibility to cast their vote in any preferred constituency within the electoral area. Therefore, we investigate in this work if and how vote casting in any constituency can be constitutionally compliant, while maintaining the current electoral system. We also consider the integration of the new German electronic ID card for voter identification and authentication

Large-scale Biometrics Deployment in Europe: Identifying Challenges and Threats

With large-scale biometrics deployment in the EU still in its infancy and with stakeholders racing to position themselves in view of the lucrative market that is forecasted, a study to identify challenges and threats that need to be dealt with was launched. This is the result: a report on Biometrics large-scale Deployment in Europe. The report tackles three main issues namely, the status, security / privacy and testing / certification processes. A survey was launched so as to help reveal the actual status of Biometrics large-scale Deployment initiatives in EU. The main outcome of the survey was that an open dissemination of implementation results policy is needed mainly on deployment plans, strategies, barriers and best practices. The security/ privacy challenges study identified a number of issues, the most important of which were related to proportionality and compliance to the existing regulatory framework while at the same time it revealed an important number of related actions aiming at ensuring both data security and privacy. The aim of the Bio Testing Europe study was double: to identify and collect comparable and certified results under different technologies, vendors and environments situations and to feed in this information to animate discussion among the members of a European network which would enhance the European testing and certification capacity. The study presents an integrated picture of the identified issues as well as a number of recommendations. With some of the systems that are being implemented involving millions of individuals as target users it is important for policy makers to adopt some of the options presented so as to address the identified through the study challengesJRC.J.4-Information Societ

Review and Analysis of Current and Future European e-ID Schemes

The purpose of this report is to accomplish the following objectives: 1. Review and analysis of existing and future e-ID standards and technologies 2. Review and analysis of national e-ID card schemes (in Europe), including their objectives and the policy drivers (motivation). 3. A review of the applications that e-ID cards enable, both for public policy purposes and commercial usage (planned & actual). 4. Lessons learned from existing e-ID card schemes (successes and failures) and determine whether new international schemes/standards will address past short-comings or not. As a result of attempting to accomplish these objectives, it became apparent that across Europe we are still in a fairly early stage of development. More importantly, there is no coordinated effort across Europe to implement e-ID cards. Leading e-ID card schemes to be designed and implemented at a national level has lead to a heterogeneous collection of scheme types. Not only is there an inconsistency in the primary objectives of e-ID cards, the use of different standards and technologies has lead to a lack of interoperability between schemes

Organizational, Technological and Regulatory Challenges for Realizing Electronic Government

In this paper we discuss the main challenges faced by electronic government initiatives. First, the components of and the demand for electronic government services are identified. Then we point out infrastructure requirements on the technological level for both the service providers and the customers. Organizational challenges are discussed with a focus on integration and coordination requirements. The need for regulation is shown in respect to public information access and security concerns with transaction services

Innovative Culture оf Company аs а Factor оf Development

In developed countries for a very long time, exist an opinion that growth of the production could be realized much faster thanks to technological or not technological innovations, and thanks to ability of employees to think on creative way and creating something new. As well, there is accepted opinion that innovations and intellectual capital currently have importance as capital; labours and land have had at the time of industrial society. Because of all mention above, in this work it is given attention to significance of innovations for developing of a society. Special attention is devoted to necessity of developing an innovative culture of company, in other words creating such ambient in company in which creative individual will be able to efficiently work on their ideas. In that process mast important role play management of company, which have at disposal a lot of motivations instruments and some techniques to give incentive for innovative way of thinking and working to employees, and that is very important factor of company sustainability and progress

The Status and Perspectives of eGovernment in Bosnia and Herzegovina

E-Government or electronic administration is a form in which public service authorities and local self-government carry out business processes. It is based on the usage of contemporary information-communication technology and is directed towards end-users. Its purpose is to make the service quality more available and clearer for its users and also to achieve the better efficiency of the inner work. E-Government provides the participation of various public spheres and institutions in the processing of publicly or locally relevant issues, and working of state and public administration. In doing so, there have been versatile methods of work automatization, not only in the outer communication (such as service requests, work distribution, solution distribution, e-democracy), but also in the inner communication (connections of record files, self-initiative data processing). If we introduce the information-communication technologies into the all segments of administration, we will achieve the long-term synergetic effects in terms of clarity, rationalization and flexibility of work. The transformation of a government into an e-government is a crucial segment of the general process of information society development. This work summarizes some good solutions of e-government services in the developed European countries. After this, there are the directions for the e-government field and its spatial aspect from the Strategy of Information Society Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Furthermore, there is a brief description and analysis of the application level of the informationcommunication technology in Bosnia and Herzegovina administration

The proliferation of identification techniques for citizens throughout the ages

Manual identification techniques date back to ancient times, however the need to identify individuals has heightened particularly since the Industrial Revolution. This paper traces the use of identification techniques throughout the ages and focuses on the growing importance of citizen identification (ID) by governments. The paper uses a historical approach beginning with manual techniques such as tattoos, through to more recent automatic identification (auto-ID) techniques such as smart cards and biometrics. Data was collected primarily through qualitative document analysis, and the paper contains thick description typical of a narrative. The findings indicate that identification techniques born for one purpose have gradually found their way into alternate applications, and in some instances have been misused altogether. There is also strong evidence to suggest that governments are moving away from localized identification schemes to more global systems based on universal lifetime identifiers (ULI)

Electronic Identity in Europe: Legal challenges and future perspectives (e-ID 2020)

This deliverable presents the work developed by the IPTS eID Team in 2012 on the large-encompassing topic of electronic identity. It is structured in four different parts: 1) eID: Relevance, Le-gal State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives; 2) Digital Natives and the Analysis of the Emerging Be-havioral Trends Regarding Privacy, Identity and Their Legal Implications; 3) The "prospective" use of social networking services for government eID in Europe; and 4) Facial Recognition, Privacy and Iden-tity in Online Social Networks.JRC.J.3-Information Societ