Title: Egovernment
1E-government
Frank Robben General manager Crossroads Bank for
Social Security Strategic advisor Federal Public
Service for ICT Sint-Pieterssteenweg 375 B-1040
Brussels E-mail Frank.Robben_at_ksz.fgov.be Website
http//www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/frobben
Crossroads Bank for Social Security Federal
Public Service for ICT (FEDICT)
2What is E-government ?
- E-government is a continuous optimization of
service delivery and governance by transforming
internal and external relationships through
technology, internet and new media - external relationships
- government lt-gt citizen
- government lt-gt business
- internal relationships
- government lt-gt government
- government lt-gt employees
- all relationships
- are bidirectional
- can be within a country or border-crossing
3Government
- not monolithic
- EU
- in every country
- federal level
- regions
- communities
- provinces
- municipalities
- parapublic institutions
- private instutions participating in delivery of
public services -
- integrated E-government is based upon common
strategy, multilateral agreements and
interoperability - E-government contains the opportunity to realize
one virtual electronic government with full
respect for every specific competence
4Advantages
- efficiency gains
- in terms of costs same services at lower total
costs, e.g. - unique information collection using co-ordinated
notions and administrative instructions - less re-encoding of information by electronic
information exchange - less contacts
- functional task sharing concerning information
management, information validation and
application development (distributed information
systems) - in terms of quantity more services at same total
cost, e.g. - all services are available at any time, from
anywhere and from any device - integrated service delivery
- in terms of speed same services at same total
cost in less time - reduction of waiting and travel time
- direct interaction with competent governmental
institution - real time feedback for the user
5Advantages
- effectiveness gains
- in terms of quality same services at same total
cost in same time, but to a higher quality
standard, e.g. - more corrected service delivery
- personalized and participative service delivery
- more transparant and comprehensive service
delivery - more secure service delivery
- possibility of quality control on service
delivery process by customer - in terms of type of services new types of
services, e.g. - push system automatic granting of or information
about services - active search of non-take-up using
datawarehousing techniques - controlled management of own personal information
- personalized simulation environments
6E-government a structural reform process
- ICT is only a means by which a result may be
obtained - E-government requires
- considering information as a strategic resource
for all government activity - change of basic mindset from government centric
to customer centric - re-engineering of processes within each
government institution, each government level and
across government levels - clear definition of mission and core tasks of
every governmental institution
7E-government a structural reform process
- E-government requires
- co-operation between governmental institutions
one virtual electronic government, with respect
for mission and core tasks of each governmental
institution and government level - co-operation between government and private
sector - interoperability framework ICT, unique
identification keys, harmonized concepts - common security framework
- adequate legal environment elaborated at the
correct level - implementation with a decentralized approach, but
with co-ordinated planning and program management
(think global, act local) - adequate measures to prevent a digital divide
8Information as resource implications
- information modelling
- information is being modelled in such a way that
the model fits in as close as possible with the
real world - definition of information elements
- definition of attributes of information elements
- definition of relations between information
elements - information modelling takes into account as much
as possible the expectable use cases of the
information - the information model can be flexibly extended or
adapted when the real world or the use cases of
the information change
9Information as resource implications
- unique collection and re-use of information
- information is only collected for well-defined
purposes and in a proportional way to these
purposes - all information is collected once, as close to
the authentic source as possible - information is collected via a supplier-chosen
channel, but preferably in an electronic way,
using uniform basic services (single sign on,
arrival receipt of a file, notification for each
message, ) - information is collected according to the
information model and on the base of uniform
administrative instructions
10Information as resource implications
- unique collection and re-use of information
- with the possibility of quality control by the
supplier before the transmission of the
information - the collected information is validated once
according to an established task sharing, by the
most entitled institution or by the institution
which has the greatest interest in a correct
validation - and then shared and re-used by authorized users
11Information as resource implications
- management of information
- information in all forms (e.g. voice, print,
electronic or image) is managed efficiently
through its life cycle - a functional task sharing is established
indicating which institution stores which
information in an authentic way, manages the
information and keeps it at the disposal of the
authorized users - information is stored according to the
information model - information can be flexibly assembled according
to ever changing legal notions - all information is subject to the application of
agreed measures to ensure integrity and
consistency
12Information as resource implications
- management of information
- every institution has to report probable
improprieties of information to the institution
that is designated to validate the information - every institution that has to validate
information according to the agreed task sharing,
has to examine the reported probable
improprieties, to correct them when necessary and
to communicate the correct information to every
known interested institution - information will be retained and managed as long
as there exists a business need, a legislative or
policy requirement, or, preferably anonimized or
encoded, when it has historical or archival
importance
13Information as resource implications
- electronic exchange of information
- once collected and validated, information is
stored, managed and exchanged electronically to
avoid transcribing and re-entering it manually - electronic information exchange can be initiated
by - the institution that disposes of information
- the institution that needs information
- the institution that manages the interoperability
framework - electronic information exchanges take place on
the base of a functional and technical
interoperabilty framework that evolves
permanently but gradually according to open
market standards, and is independent from the
methods of information exchange
14Information as resource implications
- electronic exchange of information
- available information is used for the automatic
granting of benefits, for prefilling when
collecting information and for information
delivery to the concerned persons
15Information as resource implications
- protection of information
- security, integrity and confidentiality of
government information will be ensured by
integrating ICT measures with structural,
organizational, physical, personnel screening and
other security measures according to agreed
policies - personal information is only used for purposes
compatible with the purposes of the collection of
the information - personal information is only accessible to
authorized institutions and users according to
business needs, legislative or policy requirement - the access authorisation to personal information
is granted by an independent institution, after
having checked whether the access conditions are
met - the access authorizations are public
16Information as resource implications
- protection of information
- every concrete electronic exchange of personal
information is preventively checked on compliance
with the existing access authorisations by an
independent institution managing the
interoperability framework - every concrete electronic exchange of personal
information is logged, to be able to trace
possible abuse afterwards - every time information is used to take a
decision, the used information is communicated to
the concerned person together with the decision - every person has right to access and correct his
own personal data
17Customer centric
- unique declaration of every event during the life
cycle/business episode of a customer and
automatic granting of all related services, e.g.
18Customer centric
- delivery of services that cannot be granted
automatically to a customer - in an integrated way
- information
- interaction
- transaction
- re-using all available information
- harmonized concepts
- back-office integration
- prefilled information
19Customer centric
- delivery of services that cannot be granted
automatically to a customer (ctd) - in a personalized way
- look feel and interface
- content
- only relevant information and transactions
- personalized support
- contextual help
- own language
- adapted vocabulary
- on-line simulations
- or at least based on the way of thinking of the
customer group - life events (birth, marriage, etc.) or business
episodes (starting a company, recruiting
personnel, etc.) - life styles (sport, culture, etc.)
- life status (unemployed, retired, etc.) or
business sectors - specific target groups
20Customer centric
- declaration of events and service delivery via an
access method chosen by the customer - application to application
- various end-user devices
- PC, GSM, PDA, digital TV, kiosks,
- file transfer
- use of intermediaries
- use of integrated customer relation management
tools - service delivery in principle free of charge
21Co-operation between government levels
- in Belgium, a co-operation agreement has been
signed between federal government, regions and
communities - coordinated offer of e-services to
citizens/companies - guarantee that a citizen/company can use the same
tools - terminal
- software
- electronic signature
- guarantee of a unique data collection from the
citizen/company - with respect for the partition of competences
between government levels
22Co-operation agreement between government levels
- co-ordinated, customer oriented service delivery
- agreements have to be made on common standards
- mutual tuning of portals, middleware, websites
and back offices - use of common identification keys and electronic
signature - mutual tuning of business processes when
necessary - gradual mutual task-sharing on data storage in
authentic form - common policy on SLAs and security
23Co-operation government and private sector
- private companies as service providers (sharing
of investments), e.g. - network and security management
- co-sourcing in BPR and development/maintenance/hou
sing of ICT building blocks, e.g. - certification authorities
- portals
- private companies as partners
- integrated work flow with their own information
systems, e.g. - e-procurement
- tax declaration
- social security declarations
24Interoperability framework
- goal to guarantee the ability of government
organizations and customers to share information
and integrate information and business processes
by use of - interoperable ICT
- common identification keys/sets for every entity
- harmonized concepts and data modelling
25Common identification keys
- at least common identification keys and
identification sets for every entity - person
- company
- patch of ground
- between nations
- unique schemes
- conversion tables
- regulation of interconnection of information
based on unique identification keys
26Common identification keys
- characterictics
- unicity
- one entity one identification key
- same identification key is not assigned to
several entities - exhaustivity
- every entity to be identified has an
identification key - stability through time
- identification key doesnt contain variable
characterics of the identified entity - identification key doesnt contain references to
the identification key or characteristics of
other entities - identification key doesnt change when a quality
or characteristic of the identified entity changes
27Harmonized concepts and data model
- standard elements
- with well defined characteristics
- used within all services
- OO-oriented, e.g. inheritance in a multilingual
environment - version management in an ever changing
environment - define once, use many (different presentations)
- workflow for validation of standard elements and
characteristics - multi criteria search
- by element
- by scheme
- by version
-
28Common security framework
- issues
- confidentiality
- integrity
- availability
- authentication
- autorisation
- non-repudiation
- audit
29Common security framework
- specific points of interest
- risk awareness based on risk analysis
- security policies
- structural and organisational aspects
- encryption standards
- interoperability of
- PKI
- electronic certificates
- procedures (registration authority, certification
authority) - difference between identification certificates
and attribute certificates - attributes, optional fields
- revocation lists
- directories
- application security
30Changes of the legal environment
- organization of integrated data management and
electronic service delivery legal base for Royal
Decree exists - functional task sharing on information management
- obligation to respect unique data collection from
the customer - obligation to exchange information in an
electronic way - permission or obligation to use unique
identification keys - harmonization of basic concepts
31Changes of legal environment
- ICT-law
- data protection
- public access to information
- electronic signature
- probative value
- no overregulation
- only basic principles
- technology-neutral, but not technology unaware
32Some interesting Belgian projects
- social security sector
- network of service integrators
- integration of portal sites
- electronic identity card
33Belgian social security sector
- principles have been implemented under
co-ordination of the Crossroads Bank for Social
Security, in co-operation with 2.000 public and
private social security institutions - functional and technical interoperability
framework is functioning - between these institutions
- between these institutions and all employers
- every socially insured person has a unique
identification key throughout the whole social
security sector and an electronically readable
social identity card containing this
identification key
34Interoperability within social security
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35Reference directory
- serves as a base for organization of information
flows - structure
- directory of persons what persons in what
capacities have personal files in what social
security institutions for what periods - data availability table what data are available
in what social security institutions for what
types of files - access authorization table what data may be
transmitted to what institutions for what types
of files - functions
- routing of information
- preventive access control
- automatic communication of changes to information
36Information security
- institutional measures
- organizational and technical measures based on
ISO 17799 - legal measures
37Institutional measures
- no central data storage
- independent Control Committee
- preventive control on legitimacy of data exchange
by Crossroads Bank according to authorizations of
the independent Control Committee - information security department in each social
security institution - specialized information security service
providers - working party on information security
38Independent Control Committee
- assigned by Parliament
- competences
- supervision of information security
- authorizing the data exchange
- complaint handling
- information security recommendations
- extensive investigating powers
- annual activity report
39Information security department
- in each social security institution
- composition
- information security officer
- one or more assistants
- control on independence and permanent education
of the information security officers is performed
by the Control Committee - the Control Committee can allow to commit the
task of the information security department to a
recognized specialized information security
service provider
40Information security department tasks
- information security department
- recommends
- promotes
- documents
- controls
- reports directly to the general management
- formulates the blueprint of the security plan
- elaborates the annual security report
- general management
- takes the decision
- is finally responsible
- gives motivated feedback
- approves the security plan
- supplies the resources
41Contents of the security report
- general overview of the security situation
- overview of the activities
- recommendations and their effects
- control
- campaigns in order to promote information
security - overview of the external recommendations and
their effects - overview of the received trainings
42Specialized information security service providers
- to be recognized by the Government
- recognition conditions
- non-profit association
- having information security in social security as
the one and only activity - respecting the tariff principles determined by
the Government - control on independence is performed by the
Control Committee
43Specialized information security service providers
- tasks
- keeping information security specialists at the
disposal of the associated institutions - recommending
- organizing information security trainings
- supporting campaigns promoting information
security - external auditing on request of the institution
or the Control Committee - each institution can only associate with one
specialised information security service provider
44Working party on information security
- composition
- information security officers of all institutions
- task
- coordination
- communication
- proposal of minimal security conditions
- check list
- recommendations to the Control Committee
45Organizational technical measures
- security policies
- classification of information
- security requirements towards the personnel
- physical protection
- management of communication and service processes
- processing of personal data
- logical access control
- development and maintenance of systems
- continuity management
- internal and external control
- communication to the public of the policy
concerning security and the protection of privacy
46Legal measures
- obligations of the controller
- principles relating to data quality
- criteria for making data processing legitimate
- specific rules for processing of sensitive data
- information to be given to the data subject
- confidentiality and security of processing
- notification of the processing of personal data
- rights of the data subject
- right of information
- right of access
- right of rectification, erasure or blocking
- right of a judicial remedy
- penalties
47Information servers
- information servers
- directory of persons of the Crossroads Bank
- National Register
- Crossroads Bank Registers
- work force register
- wages and working time database (LATG) of the
ONSS - employers directory (WGR) of the ONSS
- database of contribution certificates
- SIS-card and professional card registers
- services offered
- interactive consultation
- batch consultation
- automatic communication of updates
48National Register - CBSS Registers - past
situation
National Register
Municipalities
49National Register - CBSS Registers present
situation
National Register
Municipalities
50Preprocessed messages
- preprocessed messages
- beginning/end of labour contract, beginning/end
of self-employed activity - contribution certificates medical care
(employees, self-employed, beneficiaries of
social security allowances) - unemployment benefits career break
- allowances for incapacity for work (health care,
accidents at work, occupational disease) - young unemployed
- allowances to the handicapped
- guaranteed income social support
- people suffering from long-term illness
- social exemption
- fiscal exemption
- derived rights (e.g. tax reduction/exemption,
free public transport, ...) - special contribution for social security
- solidarity contribution on old age pensions
- migrant workers
51Preprocessed messages
- services offered
- batch consultation
- automatic communication of messages
52Contribution certificate health care sector
past situation
Employees
Employer
Sickness funds
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53Contribution certificate health care sector -
present situation
54Derived rights in tax affairs
- a number of people are entitled to an increased
refund of the costs for medical care - moreover, a number of municipalities and
provinces grant these persons reductions or even
exemptions of the taxes
55Derived rights in tax affairs - past situation
Sickness fund
56Derived rights in tax affairs - present situation
CBSS
sickness funds network
57Some figures
- 339.137.455 exchanged messages in 2003
- 15,1 million different persons known in directory
of persons - on an average, every person is known in 6,6
sectors - response time on-line messages
question
question
answer
answer
96,1 in lt 1 sec 99,8 in lt 2 sec
99,2 in lt 4 sec
58Social security card
- functions
- reliable, electronically readable identification
card in the hands of each social insured person,
that contains the unique social security
identification number - electronic support owned by every social insured
person, containing information on his social
security status needed by bodies not connected to
the social security network - first application proof of health care
insurability status to health care professionals
applying the third payer rule - protected memory chip card having a capacity of 8
kbits, respecting ISO 7816.1-7816.5 - delivered to every insured person (10.000.000
cards)
59Social security card
name Christian name date of birth sex social
security number period of validity of the
card card number
sickness fund sickness fund registration
number insurance period insurance status social
exemption status
key 1
other data to be added in the future, if useful
60Social security card - example 1
Social identity card
in chemistries and hospitals
Sickness fund 1
Sickness fund 2
Sickness fund 3
61Social security card - example 2
EMPLOYER
ONSS
CBSS
62Interoperability outside social security
Internet
Publilink
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Access servers
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FedMAN
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Internet services
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Other extranets
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Backbone
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63Social security portal
64Integrated service delivery
- common basic services (e.g. single sign on,
notification - information
- several categories of transactions
- transactions at the beginning or the end of
employment (DIMONA) - quarterly declaration of wages and working time
- transactions when a social risk occurs
- transactions in order to manage information about
yourself - transactions in order to control the quality of
the service delivery process - ...
65Integrated service delivery (ctd)
- harmonized concepts
- harmonized data model and XML-schemes
- self-service and personalization
- customer relation management
- contact center
66Transactions at beginning/end of employment
Simplification
Employment contract
Work force register
Special work force register
Indivudual document
Students contract
On line consultation
ONSS
Inspection
Work force register
Data- base
67Immediate declaration of employment
- can only be done electronically via
- social security portal
- FTP/MQSeries
- interbanking network
- vocal server
- 24/7
- offers the employer a key to on-line consultation
and correction - of the database on employment
- by using a electronic certificate, of the
database concerning wages and working time and
other derived databases - concerning his employees and the period of
employment
68Quarterly declaration wages working time
Simplification
Employer
one electronic declaration
ONSS
old age pension
CBSS
holiday pay
69Quarterly declaration wages working time
- can only be done electronically via
- social security portal
- FTP/MQSeries
- interbanking network
- 24/7
- can, by using an electronic certificate
- be consulted and corrected on-line by the
employer - concerning his employees and the period of
employment
70Electronical declaration of social risks
- past situation multiple collection of
information by using various, complex, not
co-ordinated paper forms
71Electronical declaration of social risks
- actual situation
- limitation of the collected information to the
information not yet available at other public
services (abolition or at least significant
simplification of forms) - unique collection of information from the
employer - in a standardized way across all social security
institutions - can be done on paper or electronically (24/7) via
- social security portal
- FTP/MQSeries
- interbanking network
- uniform instructions
72Operational transactions
- quarterly multifunctional declaration of wages
and working times to the National Office for
Social Security (NOSS) - correction of the quarterly declaration to the
NOSS - DIMONA-declaration
- consultation of the work force register
- consultation of the directory of employers
- integrated electronical declaration of building
yards - consultation of overdue payments of social
security contributions by an employer - declaration of temporary employment of foreign
employees in Belgium - declaration of temporary unemployment
- consultation of the holiday database
- declaration of an industrial accident, monthly
report and resumption of work after an industrial
accident
73Operational transactions
- declaration of the beginning of a part-time job
with retention of rights to unemployment benefits
(unemployment sector) - private sector
- education, municipalities or provinces
- monthly declaration of part-time work for the
calculation of guaranteed income payments
(unemployment sector) - private sector
- education, municipalities or provinces
- monthly submission of work as an employee
employed in a protected workplace (unemployment
sector) - monthly submission of work in the framework of an
activation programme (unemployment sector) - declaration for the establishment of young
peoples vacation rights (unemployment sector) - monthly declaration of young peoples vacation
hours (unemployment sector) - annual submission of temporary unemployment
- monthly submission of hours of temporary
unemployment - authorized request for the temporary removal of a
pregnant employee (sector of professional
diseases)
74Further evolution
- beginning 2005
- application for unemployment benefits
- declaration of fulltime or half-time early
retirement - declaration of the removal of a pregnant employee
- at a date still to be fixed
- electronic data exchange between sickness funds
and employers necessary to deal with an
application for benefits in case of incapacity
for work, maternity leave, complete or partial
leave from work as a measure to protect
motherhood, leave for fatherhood - declaration of resumption of work after a period
of incapacity for work - declaration of an employees holiday days
- declaration of extension post-natal leave
75Towards a network of service integrators
Service integrator
R/CPS
R/CPS
Services repository
Extranet region or community
Service integrator (CBSS)
Services repository
SSI
Extranet social security
SSI
Internet
Municipality
FPS
SSI
Publilink ?
FPS
FEDMAN
Services repository
Service integrator (FEDICT)
Province
City
FPS
Services repository
76Towards a network of service integrators
- type of exchanged information
- structured data
- documents
- images
- multimedia
- metadata
- business processes
- using web services
77Towards a network of service integrators
- useful functions of service integrators (FEDICT,
CBSS, ) - secure messaging
- business logic and work flow support
- directory of authorized users and applications
- list of users and applications
- definition of authentication means and rules
- definition of authorization profiles
- which service is accessible to which type of
user/application for which persons/companies in
which capacities in which situation and for which
periods - directory of data subjects
- which persons/companies in which capacities have
personal files in which institutions for which
periods - subscription table
- which users/applications want to receive
automatically which services in which situations
for which persons in which capacities
78Towards a network of service integrators
- key issues
- evolution of standards
- collaboration with vendors
- not limited to public agencies
- national, European international standards
- every partner is free to implement internally in
his own way black box philosophy
79Portal sites actual situation
intermediaries
employees
suppliers
- customers
- citizens
- companies
partners
- PORTAL B
- single sign on
- personalization
- user groups
- multi-channel
- aggregation
- PORTAL A
- single sign on
- personalization
- user groups
- multi-channel
- aggregation
content management
business intelligence
business intelligence
content management
- back-end
- systems, e.g.
- ERP
- groupware
- DBs
- applications
directory
- back-end
- systems, e.g.
- ERP
- groupware
- DBs
- applications
directory
80Portal sites
- need to strike the right balance between roles in
delivering e-government services not a single,
but many one-stop shops (public and private) -
Content and Services
Public
Private
Private
Channel
PPP
Public
Source Andrea Di Maio - Gartner
81Portal sites
- public institutions need to concentrate on core
activities, such as - information
- modular
- up to date
- information blocks concerning public services
- with standardized metadata
- based on standardized thesauri
- in generally accessible content management
systems - with separation between content and metadata
(reuse, dont rewrite) - that can be submitted to automatical
re-indexation - transactions
- applications that can be easily integrated in
private or public portal sites
82Portal sites
- public portals should have added value
- integration of services
- information
- work flow based on life events of the customers
- integration with work flow of customers
- coordinated basic services for own customers
- single sign on
- ticketing
- logging
- notification service
83Portal sites to be situation
intermediaries
employees
suppliers
- customers
- citizens
- companies
partners
- PORTAL B
- single sign on
- personalization
- user groups
- multi-channel
- aggregation
- PORTAL A
- single sign on
- personalization
- user groups
- multi-channel
- aggregation
- back-end
- systems, e.g.
- ERP
- groupware
- DBs
- applications
- back-end
- systems, e.g.
- ERP
- groupware
- DBs
- applications
directory
directory
content management
business intelligence
business intelligence
content management
84Portal sites
- other key issues
- multidimensionality accessibility of same
services through different views - multi channel enabling
- citizen/company relation management
- integrated service delivery, across all used
channels - personalization of service delivery
- first step personalized home page for every
company on social security portal - evolution to push system
- quality control
- feedback mechanisms for permanent improvement of
service delivery - contact center
85Electronic identity card
- retained functions
- visual and electronic identification of the
holder - electronic authentication of the holder via the
technique of the digital signature - generation of electronic signature via the
technique of the digital signature (non
repudiation) - proof of characteristics of the holder via the
technique of the digital signature on the
initiative of the holder - only identification data storage
- no electronic purse
- no biometry
86Electronic identity card content
- visual
- identification data name, first names, sex, date
and place of birth - National Register number
- photograph
- card number
- validity period
- electronic
- serial number (sn)
- National Register number (nrn)
- card number (cn)
- visual identification data sn nrn cn
(signed by National Register sig1) - address sig1 (signed by National Register
sig2) - photograph sig1 (signed by National Register
sig3)
87Organization model
- government chooses card producer and
certification authority issuing the identity
certificates as a result of a public call for
tenders - the municipality calls the holder for the issuing
of the electronic identity card - the municipality acts as registration authority
for 2 certificates authentication and electronic
signature - 2 key pairs are generated within the card at
production time and the private keys are stored
within the chip of the card
88Organization model
- the 2 certificates are created by the
certification authority, but published only when
the holder agrees - the use of the private keys within the chip needs
an activation of the card by a municipal official
using his PUK2 and the PUK1 sent to the holder - first authentication within one session (first
private key) and every generation of an
electronic signature (second private key)
requires the PIN code of the holder - the second private keys and the identity
certificate on the electronic identity card can
be used to generate an electronic signature
within the scope of E-government applications
which require such a signature
89Organization model
- the electronic identity card contains the
necessary space to store other private keys
associated to attribute certificates that holder
can obtain at the certification authority of his
choice
90Organization model
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91No storage of electronic data on the card
- why not ?
- preventing perception of the card as a big
brother - preventing loss of data, when the card is lost
- preventing frequent updates of the card
- stimulation of the controlled access to data over
networks, using the card as an access tool,
rather than storage of data on the card - thus, no integration of SIS-card and electronic
identity card
92Critical success factors
- E-government as a structural reform process
- process re-engineering within and across public
institutions - back-office integration for automatic granting of
services - integrated and personalized front-office service
delivery - support of and access to policymakers at the
highest level - co-operation between all actors concerned based
on repartition of tasks rather than
centralization of tasks - quick wins combined with long term vision
- focus on more efficient and effective service
delivery rather than on the fight against fraud - respect for legal repartition of competences
between actors - legal framework
- creation of an institution that stimulates and
co-ordinates
93Most important barriers
- privacy and security
- average public sector project is more complex
than average private sector project, due to - interaction with a larger number of stakeholders
(elected officials, public employees, members of
interest groups, voters, tax payers, recipients
of public services, other governmental
institutions, other government levels, ) - execution in a less stable environment
- complexity of BPR in a government environment
- race for quick wins (cf surveymania) doesnt
stimulate development of well conceived systems
based on re-engineering
94Most important barriers
- public sector tends, perhaps for reason of
prestige, to favour tailor-made, high-risk,
state-of-the-art solutions even when alternative,
off-the-shelf, cheap, tried and tested systems
are available - in the public sector, there is typically no
financial margin of value to be added by
innovation - intermediaries often perceive e-government as a
threat - skills and knowledge
95Most important barriers
- need for radical cultural change within
government, e.g. - from hierarchy to participation and team work
- meeting the needs of the customer, not the
government - empowering rather than serving
- rewarding entrepreneurship within government
- ex post evaluation on output, not ex ante control
of every input
96More info
- Crossroads Bank for Social Security
- http//www.ksz.fgov.be
- FEDICT
- http//www.fedict.be
- portal sites
- federal portal http//www.belgium.be
- social security portal https//www.socialsecurity
.be - personal website
- http//www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/frobben
97Th_at_nk you !
Crossroads Bank for Social Security Federal
Public Service for ICT (FEDICT)