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World e-ID Congress: Identity Services for Government Mobility & Enterprise Conference | Sept 25-27, 2013 | Nice, French Rivera, France.
Federated e-Identity Management across GCC Countries
P a r t n e r s i n B u i l d i n g U A E ' s S e c u r i t y & E c o n o m y
Our Vision: Provide an integrated and advanced personal identity management system that contribute to the transformation of the government and the economy and promotes security and global competitiveness of the UAE.
The basics and concepts of Identity Federation are rather
old and well understood ..
• Different frameworks and initiatives leading to trust establishment between different service providers (relying parties) based on the Identity Verification/ Authentication.
• All of these are based on Open Standards and use SAML Assertion.
• There are well established models that have prompted Governments to move up the value chain in the Identity Systems.
• Governments for long have been the de-facto identity providers to their citizens and residents, e.g., passports, ID cards, driving licenses, election cards and so on.
• With Trust and Identity Assertion becoming the need of the hour (with the advancement of the internet and remote service delivery), the Government Identity systems have evolved into the current Smart Identities complete with Digital Identity, various electronic identifiers, and credentials.
• Examine the design aspects of Identity Federation to make a case for an International Cooperation and interoperability across the GCC- especially in the light of the success reported by the STORK Project and the current STORK 2.0 initiative.
Stork > Stork 2.0 >>> GCC???
Single European e-Identification and Authentication
National Identity Providers in GCC bloc should extend their services to ACT as a PROXY for each other. This will BRIDGE Identity Providers in a seamless bind for individual digital ID holders across the Identity Providers.
1. A single PAN GCC Digital Identification and Authentication area
2. GCC e-ID Interoperability Platform that will allow citizens to establish and conduct e-transactions across borders, just by presenting their national e-ID
3. Cross-border user authentication enabling access to education resources, commercial transactions, banking transactions etc.
The benefits from such an Identity Federation scheme are enormous and will take the current economic cooperation of GCC to higher levels.