Jacques Bus

After many years of research, demonstration and limited implementations, digital identification and authentication is still not user-friendly, privacy respecting and broadly usable, except in some small states, or industry sectors. Even in banking, where good authentication is crucial many different systems are around and is not symmetrical: the client authenticates to the bank and not vice versa.

Last year the European eIDAS regulation came to effect, which allows cooperation between identification systems of governments for their own services. But this does not change easily authentication for banking, shopping, proving one’s age or education. This all still needs different methods and credentials.

In this workshop we bring together people to discuss the steps needed on top of eIDAS, to make identification and authentication on the Internet easy and trustworthy.

We will start with a presentation on eIDAS and its foreseen future developments. This will be followed by presentations of private systems existing or under development that are privacy respecting and easy to use and which can build on existing government or otherwise backed ID data. It will include attribute-based systems, Self-Sovereign ID and Block Chain based ID.

It will be complemented by a presentation on the problems of governments to make progress to develop citizen-friendly eID systems.

Speakers are:

Andrea Servida (HoU EC CNECT/eGovernment and Trust): eIDAS, its status and future developments.

Elly Plooij – van Gorsel (Chair of the Dutch Government Committee on eID) eID developments in The Netherlands

Bart Jacobs (prof Radboud Univ Nijmegen, NL): IRMA, a privacy respecting and user friendly eID system

Ghassan Karame (NecLab, DE): Block Chain for ID management

Stephan Krenn (AIT, AT): Privacy preserving Self-Sovereign ID management.

This Workshop has been organised by DigEnlight in cooperation with Trust in Digital Life and hosted by the Representation at the EU of the German State of Hessen. 

We received an invitation from the editors of a new book about:

 Digital Innovation and Societal Change – Implications for Production, Work and Organisation

See an outline and further information on the book below.

You are invited to contribute one of different types of papers, such as critical reviews, empirical studies and cases, and project results. A detailed list of suggested topics is part of the attached book outline.

In the context of its activities in its strategic innovation area: Digital industry, EIT Digital decided to launch a study focusing on the main policy challenges accompanying the digital transformation of the European industry. The study followed a scenario-based approach to structure and assess the potential impacts of policy measures with a main focus on taxation and labor market regulation.
Digital Enlightenment Forum was contracted to execute the study under the guidance of EIT Digital senior staff.

The Summary report can be found hereunder or in the Library of this space (see tab above)

You can find the Summary and the Full version on the EIT Digital site HERE

We would appreciate your reactions hereunder.

Fred Turner is in this interesting paper talking us through societal change from the sixties till Trump. How individualism, communal thinking, engineering and social platforms have affected our democracies today. You can read it HERE

Paul Butcher gives a strong plea to recognize that all stakeholders carry a certain responsibility in the fight against disinformation. Private and public actors as well as societal organisations should together aim at structural solutions that increase trust in the main public and private actors and give tools to individuals to recognize disinformation from valuable information. See the publication in ths library.

In a blog: Block Chain's Occam Problem  Mckinsey expresses doubts on the usefulness of applications of Block Chain, in particular in financal industry, but also on the potential in many other application areas.The blog is a worthy reading.
Particularly also the conclusions that there can nevertheless be real potential in specific cases which would shift ownership on data from corporations to consumers. An excellent example seems to be private Block Chains that give members control (by having the crypto key on the ledger) over who can read the ledger, which could be an extending set of Identity or personal data, personal medical data etc.

Suggestions have been made already on ID management by Kim Cameron (see his "Laws of Identity on the Block Chain" of 27 May 2018 on his BLOG).

Similar ideas can be worked out for e-Portfolios, i.e. ledgers of personal education and experience badges.

The conclusion might indeed be as stated HERE that Block Chain becomes mature and ... boring.

Kim Cameron discusses in his BLOG the introduction in September 2018 of the EU legislation (eIDAS) enabling cross-border recognition of electronic ID's. He welcomes this as the world’s first multinational identity trust framework.

DigEnlight strongly supports the eIDAS project and welcomes the support of large ICT companies to make this a success in the EU.

Join the discussion in the Journal of Information Policy HERE

Deadline 15 Jan, see HERE