Benefits for stakeholders

What are the benefits of eGovernment and who profits from it?

Trust and collaboration lie at the heart of any truly effective digital identity ecosystem. The trust aspect is three-way –
between the party that creates or manages the identity, the person for whom that identity has been established,
and the parties that rely on it. The collaboration element also involves three parties: individual citizens, the public sector,
and the private sector. Without these three supporting legs, the ecosystem is inherently unstable. But when trust and
collaboration are combined with the power of digital identities, using the specialist expertise of Veridos the results can be astounding.

A digital identity ecosystem connecting all stakeholders Trust is essential between these three parties

How do the stakeholders benefits from eGovernment? Streamlined and seamless automated processes

PUBLIC - CITIZEN

Civil and social empowerment afforded by providing legal identity for everyone

PUBLIC - PRIVATE

Labor productivity is enhanced through sharply decreased administration burdens

PRIVATE - CITIZEN

Increased convenience and an improved customer experience

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Digital identities automate processes, making them more streamlined and seamless. By enabling vital
identity documents to be stored securely in digital form they are made easier to access, helping to increase the
confidence of both issuers and others relying on the integrity of the ID document. Furthermore, a document that is both more
convenient and secure will attract more and more issuers to exploit it for different use cases. So the increasing
rates of digitization worldwide, and the pace of mobile phone adoption, in particular, mean more and more individuals
can easily and conveniently access services and facilities they would have found difficult, if not impossible, to attain in the past.

How can Anna use

her new digital ID?

Use case: Using a digital ID at a movie theater

A legal identity opens doors to many opportunities. In Utopia, for example, when Anna comes of age, it is time to apply for a national ID. At the same time, she applies for a digital ID. This digital ID is securely stored on her smartphone and can be used anywhere Anna could use her physical ID – for age verification, for example. Anna is at a movie theater and presents her digital ID to the clerk, proving she is old enough to watch the age-restricted film. The theater does not need to invest in expensive devices or infrastructure to make this possible. The clerk can simply use an authorized verifier on any device to scan Anna’s digital ID.

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Security vs. convenience vs.

Privacy

A digital identity belongs to the individual, not to the issuer, and the user’s right to control the availability of any information contained within that identity to third parties is central to establishing trust in the digital identity ecosystem. The principle of data minimization ensures that the attributes a citizen shares are only the bare minimum needed to conduct a specific transaction. If, for example, a citizen uses their digital ID to open a bank account, then the individual will have to approve which attributes should be released to the verifier – maintaining confidentiality at every step.

Privacy vs. convenience vs.

Security

The overall architecture has to protect citizens’ data while ensuring secure communication channels between the government and citizens. Multiple layers of security, for example multi-factor authentication and signing technologies, trust mechanisms and innovative technology work together to create a secure ecosystem that can be trusted by all parties. Veridos has a comprehensive suite of products and services that span the full range of digitization needs, from initial issuance and the various levels of ID verification all the way through to authorization renewals in all its many forms.

Privacy vs. security vs.

Convenience

Through a robust digital identity management system, citizens benefit from access to public services remotely and enjoy a convenient, state-of-the-art user experience. Governments benefit from savings in administrative costs and the secure exchange of information. More than this, once such a system is in place it can open the doors to the digitalized provision of almost every conceivable type of eGovernment service, creating a high value-added ecosystem for all users.