Posts Tagged ‘eID’
Lithuania Selects Procivis for the National European Digital IdentityWallet Sandbox
rocivis AG, a technology market leader for digital identity, credentials and wallets, and a subsidiary of Orell Füssli, announced today that, following a public procurement process, it has been awarded the contract to provide Lithuania’s European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet sandbox. Working with SDSA, the State Digital Solutions Agency of Lithuania, Procivis will build the national testbed to drive Lithuania’s digital identity activities and ensure readiness in advance of the EU-wide launch.
With Procivis One, its production-ready and eIDAS 2.0-compliant technology for digital identity and wallets, Procivis brings deep expertise to help establish an interoperable ecosystem for Lithuania’s digital identity initiative.
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Originally published on 9 Feb
Read MoreEstonia entrusts the development of e-resident biometric solutions to Latvian company
X Infotech, a Latvian software provider, has won a procurement for creating a technical solution for collecting e-residents’ biometric data via mobile devices, the Estonian Ministry of the Interior’s Information Technology and Development Centre (SMIT) has announced. The application to be developed will enable applicants for e-Residency, starting in 2027, to verify their identity securely via a smartphone application.
Submitting biometric data through a mobile app will make the e-Residency application process more convenient and faster, and is a prerequisite for eventually replacing the current physical card–based e-resident digital identity entirely with a mobile solution. The solution being developed must also meet the European Union’s eIDAS regulation’s stringent security requirements, ensuring that the e-resident digital ID remains usable for authentication and for providing electronic signatures equivalent to handwritten signatures.
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Originally published on 29 Jan
Read MoreePoster child Nordic-Baltic countries move forward on EU eID scheme
For someone from Denmark, the idea of accessing digital services or personal documents on-line is rather old-fashioned. The country is on version 2.0 of its national eID, and some 97% of residents over 15 use it to access all manner of public services. The private sector can also be partly thanked for the uptake: many firms have adopted the system as the login for their services as well.
Denmark stands out when it comes to eID, but it is not alone. All of the countries of the NB8, the club of eight Nordic and Baltic countries, can be found near the top the UN’s rankings of public services available on-line. Facilitating this requires giving residents reliable ways of verifying themselves—and forcing them to use it. The latter is an irritation in the start, but familiarity, as the Danish case shows, breeds content.
That should make the next goal something of a tip-in: this week, the countries’ digitalisation ministers agreed to pool their experience in order to be among the first EU members to roll out an eID that can be used in the entire bloc.
Brussels has stipulated that, by the end of next year, all members must offer at least one form of eID. Being a first-mover, the thinking amongst the NB8 goes, will allow the countries’ software developers to stay ahead of the pack, making their systems attractive to countries that will not have an eID solution of their own ready by the deadline. When it comes to identification technology, the biggest selling point may be reputation.
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