Proof of identity in e-governance aspects. Presentation held by Ronny Depoortere, within the first session of the FORUM „INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN GOVERNMENT”, dedicated to interoperability, held at Chisinau, January 16th 2012.

1. Ronny Depoortere
January 16th, 2012
Chisinau

2. Identification – Business Case
The ability to uniquely identify citizens and foreign residents is the corner
stone of an efficient public service.
Benefits:
It is the task of the government to provide checking entitlement to government
reliable and verifiable services or benefits
identification and authentication organising elections
issuing identity/travel documents
combat identity fraud
border control & monitoring
immigration flows
crime prevention
anti-terrorism
statistical or demographic analysis

3. Identity - real world & virtual world
identity
unique identifiers
unique document numbers and virtual token numbers

5. Unique Data Source (Population Register)
• Unique Data Source for
– biographical data
– civil data (identity and status)
• source for derived lists or databases (travel,
elections, etc)
• linked with other registers
(voter lists, emigration records, etc.)

6. Unique Data Source
identity
other
identité
information
photo
éducation photo
(residence,
nationality, etc)
individu
état civil
liste de
documents individual
d ’identité
mandats
list of
civil state
documents
(marital status,
identity cards,
identité voter rights,
travel
etc)
éducation photo
documents, etc
individu
liste de mandates
état civil documents
d ’identité
mandats

7. enrolment production of
and secure ID
registration documents
POPULATION
REGISTER
ID card
management
biometric
&
validation
ID token
management

8. A unique Central Source is key for
your central identity management
Central & digital
Paper-based

9. Unique Identifiers
• 2 types of unique identifiers
1.unique numbers for persons
2.unique numbers for identity documents
travel documents
virtual tokens
• identifiers make it easy to present and prove identity
• identifiers enable eGov by means of information
exchange even without involving the citizen

10. Identity Documents and their use
• Most countries with e-services policy use e-ID card as key
identifier :
– Need for physical control in Moldova
– Need for travel document (ID being much cheaper than a
passport)
– Biometrics storage ?
– Off-line ID checking (rental, banks, etc.)
– Mobile authentication (CR-principle eg Portugal)
• Can also be done without e-ID card
– Most average users don’t have a smartphone yet
• Discussion client- vs server-side mobile e-ID

11. Identity Documents & Tokens
• documents or tokens are carriers for identity information
• a secure ID card usually contains
– unique ID number
– unique card number number
– identity data
– photo, biometric data
• an e-ID card is the typical base tool to identify and
authenticate a person

12. Mobile Identity
• Perfectly in-line with Moldova’s strategy
• Is very complementary
-> derived mobile identity

13. Registration
• Issuing ID documents or ID tokens relies on a reliable
first-time registration procedure to establish the true
identity of the citizen
• Registration for other ID documents or tokens relies
on ID cards as initial proof of identity (« Mother
Identity »)

14. Ronny Depoortere
Sr. Vice-President ZETES PASS
Ronny.depoortere@zetes.com
www.zetes.com/moldova
T +32 2 728 37 11