A Citizen Digital Assistant for e-Government

  • Authors:
  • Nico Maibaum;Igor Sedov;Clemens H. Cap

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • EGOV '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Government
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this short paper we describe the architectural concept of a Citizen Digital Assistant (CDA) and preliminary results of our implementation. A CDA is a mobile user device, similar to a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). It supports the citizen when dealing with public authorities and proves his rights - if desired, even without revealing his identity. Requirements for secure and trusted interactions in e-Government solutions are presented and shortcomings of state of the art digital ID cards are considered. The Citizen Digital Assistant eliminates these shortcomings and enables a citizen-controlled communication providing the secure management of digital documents, identities, and credentials.