IfG.CC - The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center

Customers of New Zealand's ASB Bank Ltd. have to have cellphones in hand before transferring large sums of money over the Internet from their accounts.

ASB was one of the first to use two-factor authentication through cellphones to help keep thieves out of on-line bank accounts, a security precaution that's now attracting the attention of businesses of all types and sizes, thanks to the popularity of mobile phones and personal digital assistants with wireless Internet access.

A public-private project has resulted in a link-up between two rival ID authentication schemes.

The project involves the State Services Commission and Datacom. In using the services of Microsoft’s Innovation Centre a link has resulted between Microsoft’s CardSpace identity scheme and the alternative Security Assertion Markup Language SAML, used in the SSC’s authentication scheme.

The Department of Internal Affairs is preparing for nation-wide consultations around its proposed Identity Verification Service (IVS).

The consultation will include submissions and a series of nine focus groups throughout the country to consult identified stakeholders including Maori and Pacific Islanders, privacy and human rights advocates and people in rural areas.

The card allows access to a narrow and specific range of government services. It's not much use to anyone except the cardholder - there is no black market in those cards.

In the Bodija area of Ibadan, Oyo State, some of those registered claimed that their finger prints were not taken during registration.At the weekend, former President Olusegun Obasanjo had gone to three different registration points to register but his finger prints were not captured by the machines.

Top executive of public and private sector organisations, identity sector operators, IT providers, international community and civil society organisations are expected to participate at the conference.

The Dutch are able to access an increasing number of online services offered by Dutch government agencies by using their DigiD. However, DigiD is as personal as the PIN of a debit card, and so it is important not to share it with others. Nonetheless, sometimes it is helpful for someone else to arrange matters on your behalf. As a result, DigiD Authorise has been introduced in order for someone to assist a citizen without needing to know that citizen's DigiD details.

DigiD Authorise, a new function of citizens' Digital Identity (DigiD), was used this year by the Netherlands' Tax Administration (Belastingdienst, in Dutch) in a pilot scheme. The Tax Administration printed an authorisation code on the tax return letters. To authorise an agent to act on their behalf, the taxpayer passed this authorisation code on to the agent. The agent was then able to use this authorisation code and their own personal DigiD to do the tax return for the taxpayer.

According to the organisation, the goal of the new OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods (Trust Elevation) Technical Committee is to extend interoperability among online service providers (such as banks and health care providers) and make eTransactions easier for end users.

Identity is complicated, defined both by our social facts and personal choices. Identity may be that which makes us individual or unique, or signals that we belong to a certain group or community. Our identity speaks to who we are and how others may recognize us using our faces, eyes, fingerprints, handwriting, genes, voices, or even thought patterns. We see ourselves one way, while the outside world may have another impression entirely.

Im Rahmen einer Gala-Veranstaltung wurde gestern der Multimedia & eBusiness Staatspreis in der Kategorie Web Services und eOrganisation an mobilkom austria verliehen. Bundesminister Dr. Martin Bartenstein überreichte den Preis und prämierte damit die Anwendung A1 SIGNATUR, die das Erledigen von Amtswegen jederzeit und von überall gestattet.

Das Extranet des steirischen Katastrophenschutz-Portals für Feuerwehr, Rotes Kreuz und andere Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben ist künftig nur noch mit digitaler Signatur zugänglich. Für diese "Bürgerkarten"-Funktion wird statt Chipkarte und Kartenlesegerät ein mobiler USB-Stick verwendet, der ein Lesegerät überflüssig macht.

The system that will eventually be integrated with country’s border control - PISCES (Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System) and a forensic laboratory will help the investigators in their task.

But according to the Comelec officer, I have no use for it since my picture was already printed beside my name in the voters’ list.

I didn’t have to bring out any of my ID cards from my wallet that was bulging, not with a wad of money, but with SSS, GSIS, driver’s license, S and R, SM Advantage, senior citizen’s, and company ID cards.

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), has introduced facial recognition capabilities, Face ID, in its iOS and Android Mobile App, making it the first Bank in Qatar to allow the facial recognition technology feature on all smartphone devices.

Instead of customers logging into their accounts with their username and password each time they open the QIB Mobile App, they can now use their Face ID to login in a simple and secured manner.

The new electronic authentication and certification system will be integrated with "YESSER," the e-Government Program in Saudi Arabia.

Countries all over the world are making the transition to e-Government so as to establish a secure mechanism to receive electronically certified documents and authorizations and make it easier, safer and faster for public officials to validate documents and e-signatures.

The transaction was with the passport administration, the first government administration to implement the service as a step toward e-government.