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Institute for eGovernment

In a provocative presentation entitled `Designing Identity 3.0 to fix a broken identity system', Paul Simmonds, CEO of the Global Identity Foundation, said that digital identity is usually defined by IT, but is divorced from business requirements - including security.

Speaking at the Identity Management 2014 conference in London on Wednesday, Simmonds - a co-founder of the Jericho Forum - said that the problem with establishing identity in the digital world is that most user information, assuming it is used, is not authoritative.

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The first city in Canada to develop and implement a digital strategy, Vancouver continually aims to improve the ways in which residents can access city services and information.

“Our digital transformation initiatives across the organisation have delivered value and benefits to residents, staff, businesses and visitors,” says Jessie Adcock, City of Vancouver chief technology officer.

Während die Polizei in vielen europäischen Ländern noch mit analoger Technik und für jeden abhörbar auf Verbrecherjagd geht, hält in Großbritannien zunehmend moderne Digitaltechnik im Polizeifunk Einzug.

Openness and transparency are becoming defining elements of governance in the 21st century. Demands for openness from protesters in Cairo, Madrid and New York have resonated and modern politicians – left, right or centre – would find it difficult to claim that the state should share less information with citizens.

Public scandals, such as the MPs' expenses crisis in the UK, and the internet have further pushed our quest for more public knowledge.

A pilot scheme due to be launched next month will automatically inform different Government departments when people move house or change address.

Ihavemoved.com, simplymove.co.uk and the Royal Mail - which all provide change of address services - will take part in the Net-based trial.

This is the recommendation at the heart of a new report into the role and impact of information and communication technologies in the UK, penned by the Institute for Public Policy Research.

It says that the Government’s fixation with technological benchmarks that concentrate on “supply of hardware” rather than user satisfaction, threatens to leave the public behind as an aggressive roll out of ICT advances.

Survey by Capterra reveals that smart cities are evolving, but steps must be taken to foster trust from residents with data protection the biggest concern.

5G is the most widely available smart technology in the UK, identified by more than half of respondents (54 per cent) in a recent survey, followed by artificial intelligence (AI) (42 per cent) and the Internet of Things (IoT) (37 per cent).

The £15 million pilot e-Government scheme, Project Semaphore, is the first stage in the Government's e-Borders (electronic borders) programme, which aims to use IT to strengthen border control, effectively recording people as they travel into and out of the UK, and improve security.

Civil servants are hoping for a miracle to help them get all government services online by end of 2005, according to a director of the e-Envoy's office.

Italy’s delay in the digitalization of the public administration is known, and improvements from year to year are slow in coming. This is the conclusion reached by major international bodies, from the EU Commission to the OECD and including the World Bank.

Suffice it to say that in 2015 only 24% of Italians claimed to have had “interactions with the public administration in the last 12 months.” A far cry from the over 80% in Denmark and Estonia, but even from other big countries, such as France (63%), Germany (53%), Great Britain (49%) and from the EU average (46%). Only Bulgaria and Romania fare worse than the Italians.

If you live in Canada then there's a good chance you've used one of the wide range of government services on offer, whether to pay bills, file tax returns or apply for a gun licence.

A recent IDC survey of public sector organisations in Western Europe predicted that the sector will experience stronger growth than other industries.

Fewer than half of local authorities in the UK expect to hit the 2005 deadline for online public services, and 15 per cent have said they will not even try.

On top of sizable savings, local governments in England, also called councils in the U.K., could increase total revenues by £60 million per year, while delivering service improvements worth £1.3 billion, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) said on Wednesday. Those figures are the average in a range for each category, according to a spokesman from the National Projects Programme.

The government's national strategy for e-government, launched last week, has received a mixed response from local authorities.