European e-ID Interoperability Conference 2010 - "Current Perspective and Initiatives from around Europe in Government and Business"
The conference will explore how the interoperability of European electronic identity (e-ID) is evolving in practice and the implications for governments, businesses and the citizen today. Participants will also gain valuable feedback and alternative opinions and solutions from their industry peers.
It will focus on key subject areas such as those listed below:Â
- Examples of how business are making use of external e-IDs such as National schemes;
- Case studies of interoperability activities between enterprises (examples from the finance sector);
- Discovering the key legal, data protection and privacy implications of interoperating;
- Technical issues and solutions (additionally the future use of Radio-Frequency IDentification [RFID] & Near Field Communication [NFC] applications);
- Latest strategies for maximising the security of e-ID in an open environment;
- Specific cross border interoperability challenges and their possible solutions;
- Multi-channel utilisation - can this approach extend e-ID beyond current usage using non-conventional carriers and media?
- What Federation technologies and models are deploying now and which standards are dominating?
- Mobile solutions and applications;
- Focus on EU initiatives such as STORK (Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linked) - PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement Online) - epSOS (European Patients Smart Open Services - epSOS) - Spocs (Simple Procedures Online for Cross-border Services) - ELSA (European Large Scale Action).
Over 25 million smartcards for citizens are currently in use in Belgium, providing secure access and authentication for over 250 public and private services - from online income tax returns, to health services, to securing chat room use for teenagers.
e-Services interoperability solution across all European nations is crucial; however there are obstacles which include: relatively centralised and often proprietary architectures; fragmented responsibilities and difficult collaboration, nationally developed digital modernisation programs and a wide range of ID and exchange security methods.
The conference's agenda will be shortly available on the event website.
Registration can be performed online and require the payment of fee. The fee is €250 for eema members and €450 for non members. A 25 % discount will be applied if payment is received by 19 February 2010. Over 150 attendees are expected by the organisers.Â
Event email: f.hawkins@eema.org
