Microsoft Corp. and WISeKey today announced at the Microsoft Worlwide Partner Conference (WPC) their partnership to deploy the Regional Government of Biscay's delivery of a comprehensive e-Government Citizen Services Platform
Geneva and Houston 10th July 2008 - Microsoft Corp. and WISeKey today announced
their partnership to deploy the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia (DFB) e-government project
based on the new Citizen Services Platform (CSP) developed by Microsoft with the
support of WISeKey that will make it easier for governments to interact with citizens,
streamline processes and, as a result, save time and taxpayer budgets. This announcement
was made back-to-back with the award today to Microsoft of the full Biscay e-government
“BiscayTIK” project.
WISeKey is proud to announce its key identity management contribution to the “BiscayTIK”
project signed today. This €17.4 million project includes a leading edge identity
federation that enables the establishment of private citizen portals adapted to
the needs and the interests of each citizen in a real WEB 2.0 environment, where
the citizen will have the control over the portal contents on an identity basis.
This advanced WISeKey service is tightly integrated with Microsoft’s Windows Server
2008 platform and allows secure and private access to the full scope of the DFB
city-halls’ on-line services. This unique combination establishes a world reference
for a community of over one million citizens and one hundred town halls and can
be easily replicated in many other e-government scenarios and therefore contribute
to the further advancement of the e-government promise.
According to Mr. José Luis Bilbao, Deputy General of Bizkaia, “BiscayTIK shall allow
our citizens to benefit from leading edge services that propel our region into the
21st century at the forefront of social and economic development. And this will
be accomplished with support of first class partners such as Microsoft and WISekey,
fully committed to joining us in developing our world class technology centre”.
Microsoft has long recognized the responsibility to enable access to technology
in ways that help people realize their full potential,” Michel Van der Bel Vice
President Public Sector of Microsoft International said. “We are working closely
with partners like WISekey with governments around the world on progressing technology
policy issues and providing technology solutions that address the unique IT needs
of governments, educators and non-profit organization.
WISeKey long experience in securing e-Government services and its unique Trust Platform
and ID Portability standard is a major asset for a global deployment of the CSP
among Governments around the world said Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey.
From London to Stockholm, from Porto, Portugal, to Aalter, Belgium, governments
of all sizes are communicating with citizens in a variety of new and innovative
ways. Even with the diverse needs of these cities, many of their government agencies
deliver a common set of services to citizens. A culmination of partnerships, programs
and projects conducted with governments over several years, the CSP has been developed
to answer the needs seen across diverse government offices and help deliver the
best of these services across different regions worldwide.
CSP is a comprehensive solution designed to help local governments worldwide to
serve citizens and businesses to meet their needs for communication applications,
search, citizen portal, interactive forms, geographical information systems (GIS),
intranet portal, Web space, citizen contact center, citizen relationship management,
case management, as well as document and record management. Microsoft has engaged
leading partners like WISeKey to integrate their technology with the CSP for security,
and with existing technology platforms used by local and regional governments.
Part of the solution to be delivered by WISeKey is a new generation semantic validation
system which leverages the Web 2.0 functionalities and goes further by taking Citizen
services into Web 3.0 interactions. Essentially, citizens will be able to access
and transact through citizen services online with different logon mechanisms. Depending
on the logon mechanism used, the Citizen portal will be adapted automatically to
the functionalities allowed by the logon mechanism used. For example, with a high
security electronic identity card, a citizen would be able to undertake the most
complex citizen transactions whilst the use of a simple login/password mechanism
would limit the functionalities available to the Citizen. This also enables the
Citizen to decide how far they wish to have their citizen services enabled online.
WISeKey is a Swiss company with strong focus on PKI, ID management and public services.
WISeKey was selected in 2007 by the World Economic Forum as one of the 100 New Champions
during the first-ever meeting of the New Champions in Dalian China. The Community
of New Champions is composed of rapidly growing companies that have both the aspirations
and ability to successfully expand outside their domestic markets.
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