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National economies are seeking for new models of trust: public authorities will guarantee quality, reliability, transparency and authoritativeness of the services provided by the entire ecosystem.

The end user represents a person for whom a hardware or software product is designed. In IMPULSE, potential final end users become an active part of the development of the innovative eID solution.

The train of public service digitisation has left the platform long ago in Denmark. Nevertheless, vulnerable citizens are, to a great extent, left waiting to jump on this modern way of interacting with the public sector and important private institutions like banks and housing landlords. Using the IMPULSE solution, the Danish case study in the City of Aarhus explores new ways to hand a group of left-behind citizens the ticket to the digital society.

A short summary of the meeting organised by CyberEthics Lab. in the context of the IMPULSE project, where policy-makers from all around Europe discussed the pros and cons of the introduction of a system of electronic identity based on disruptive technologies and on the self sovereign identity approach.

EU citizens only need to take a selfie and capture an image of their government-issued identification (identity card, passport, driver’s license, etc.) to verify their identities online and access public services. If the system finds a match between the selfie and the person on the identity document, the user is verified and can access the service. Pretty simple, huh? But what is behind all this process? If you are wondering about the technology behind it, read on.

The consideration of relevant existing standards for the development of the projects’ solutions and the transfer of the projects’ results into standardisation by contributing to ongoing standardisation activities or by developing new standards offers a big opportunity for R&I projects such as IMPULSE. This post informs about the analysed standardisation landscape.