British Columbia will test a virtual ID "card" that enables citizens
to connect with the government’s online services more safely and
easily, a top technology official said.The government plans to begin tests on an "information card" early in
the new year, said Ian Bailey, director of application architecture
for the province’s Office of the Chief Information Officer.
BC Gov to test out Information Cards
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I recently came across this website during research about virtual organisations and cooperation and i have to say it’s very interesting stuff. I was wondering what the BC goverment means by introducing a information card. Will it be something like a beefed-up token, chipcard or something that is completly digital? And more importantly will the BC goverment be the credential provider in this case or will a company be the credential provider. Here in The Netherlands we have a simiral system which was recently implemented by the goverment for all goverment related issues people might have, it’s called DigiD (http://www.digid.nl/english/).
Love your presentations, helped me greatly with my assignment.
Information cards are what are managed by Microsoft CardSpace and Novell’s DigitalMe.
Are any of the other Canadian provinces running a similar project or is BC an early adapter in Canada? If it would prove succesfull in BC, they might implement nationwide.
There is a pan-Canadian task force that is watching what is happening in BC. I’m not familiar with other provinces implementing at this point in time.
I appreciated your video presentation, which I got from Wikipedia http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/
As my ability in understanding spoken English (American…) is not so strong, showing most of the key words was a good idea. Is there any available tool to slow down a recorded spoken presentation?
Not that I know of, sorry.
We have idCard in Estonia. Its piece of plastic with a chip on it. With that chip you can log into web and do most of the stuff- even internet banking, starting a company, paying bills, signing contracts … Basically it has as much credibility than showing up in person with a passport in your hand. It works well here and it is secure.
If you are more interested, drop me an e-mail. Maybe it could help with identity 2.0
will do