E-Government in Austria 15th Porvoo Conference Vienna 27.05.2009 Roland Ledinger
Agenda 1. Organisation-Implementation-Cooperation 2. One stop shop: help.gv.at/myhelp.gv.at p g 3. Consistent Procedure 4. Example: criminal record certificate 5. Business Service Portal
1 Organisation 1. Organisation Implementation - Cooperation
Federal Republic of Austria Area: 83 870.95 km² Population: 8 174 733 12 federal ministries 80 district administrations 9 provinces 2359 municipalities
EU-Benchmarking Sophistication indicator shows that Austria leads the European way in all 20 services measured. Austria s egovernment initiative is a class-leading example of how to optimize a government s eservices offering and make it almost 100% transactional.
observing cooperation among the federal levels is crucial about 70% of administration is NOT at federal level the way of working together has a top priority to be successful Cooperative egovernment 1 2 Cooperation at 4 European level 1 Strategy: Federal Chief Information Officer FEDERAL ICT BOARD 11 implementation executive secretary Synergy and Cooperation 13 local government, cities, provinces, municipalities, industry ICT 2005+ 20 001 20 002 20 003 20 004 20 005 20 006 20 007 20 008
factors of success backed by highest political level strength through coordination and cooperation usage of state of the art technology citizen centricity it trust and security privacy and data protection transparency and efficiency einclusion / usability sustainability Interoperability technology neutrality
ICT in the public sector is like a large vessel it needs clear decisions quite ahead before real movement can be planned. Federal Government Digital DgtalAustria ustra Management CIO Spokesperson Local and National Governments as well as Chamber Organisations and Industry Digital Austria Federal ICT Board Digital Austria ecooperation Board Fed. Ministries Provinces, Municipalities, Regions
the building blocks defined for egovernment? eid, signature and mandates edoc edelivery Registers Portal interconnect Gov Portal Help Back office systems
E-Government big picture portal application portal register edelivery manager print service officer forms server bank archive edelivery service
Help.gv portal central registers and ELAK- Backoffice electronic delivery service
2 One stop shop: 2. One stop shop: help.gv.at/myhelp.gv.at
Citizens Business Young people Different languages Over 50s Search about 200 Life situations i Questions & Suggestions News in and around HELP Categories myhelp Newsletter-Order
Information One stop principle about 200 life situations official procedures fees and deadlines forms useful tips and tricks Life Situations 1. Birth 2. Passport 3. Driving Licence 4. Heritage 5. Taxes 6. Tax Declaration 7. Motor Vehicles 8. Marriage 9. Care Precaution 10. Pension
Information Select form (Style guide) Transaction E-Signatur E-Payment Dual Delivery www.meinbrief.at
HELP Partnership Provides authorities of municipalities the following opportunities: Administrative procedures online for HELP-PartnersPartners Basis package of 25 nationwide valid online-forms, e.g. Birth Certificate issue Trade Registration-/Notice of Departure-/Notice of Change Marriage Certificate issue Election Card Request for issue free use by partner authorities Authority data update by HELP-Partners HELP Content Syndication since September 2007 for all Authorities free of charge Driving Licence Residence and Visa Birth Marriage Motor Vehicles Identity Card Passport End of Life Removal Associations Trade Elections
myhelp Access with Citizen Card/Signature Card
Stages of interaction Different stages of e-government interactions regarding e-governance
E-Tresor Issues/Life Situations due to user s profile Electronic Delivery Service News Information Service Reminder Forms/Online forms due to user s region Authorities due to user s region Forum
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3. Consistent Procedure
3. Consistent Procedure anytime : anywhere filling in form (XML) signing with epayment back office citizen card (EPS) activity (ELAK) electronic delivery www.help.gv.at www.buergerkarte.at www.elak.gv.at www.zustellung.gv.at
Legal background as an enabler electronic identity electronic delivery ENABLING E-GOVERNMENT proxy: inclusion of people with disabilities and older people official signature
Legal framework (excerpt) Legal Bases E-Goverment Act General Admin. Procedure Act 1991 Electronic Delivery Data Protection Signature Act Act Act 2000 Register of Residents Act Fed. Law on Associations 2002 2 Fee Act 1957 Register of Buildings and Homes Act
A valid legal basis the main ingredient E-Government Act citizen card identitylink (SAML) mandates (SAML) source PIN sector specific eid source PIN REGISTER supplement REGISTER standarddocument REGISTER official signature
eid Citizen Card Health insurance card: Rollout to each citizen started finished November 2005 (prepared, citizen free to activate as citizen card including qualified electronic signature) Bank cards: Each bank (ATM) card issued since March 2005 is also an SSCD (prepared, citizen is free to activate the citizen card function) affinity cards http://www.buergerkarte.at Within administration: in order to provide more efficient procedures and to avoid extensive data to be collected Access to e-gov: in order to facilitate e-government and transformation (automated procedures) Access to e-business: in order to raise quality trust and security by profiting from public sector
eid citizen card realization not a card, but a requirement profile AUSTR RIAN CIT TIZEN CAR RD realization in a PPP model technology independent interface for identification (identity link) and authenticity (digital signature) support of arbitrary signature cards; technologically feasible also with mobile phones and other technologies
eid Austria : Overview LEGAL QUALIFIED SIGNATUR E + IDENTIT Y LINK PUBLIC PRIVATE any private sector CA for qualified signatures Identity = source pin cryptographically bound to certificate t DATAPROTECTION openly available LDAP Directory only on the card SECTOR SECTOR SECTOR SECTOR one way mapping into sectors
Standards : edocs there is no egovernment without reliable documents! there is no interoperability without recognized documents eprocurement electronic bills electronic certificates...
signing person (function) date and time unique form id Co ncep pt of offic cial sig gnatu ures logo of authority signature value CA and serial number validity hint
Delivery (in general) Electronic Delivery: official documents are transmitted electronically with or without proof of delivery unique identification of recipient substitute for registered mail No Spam! e-mail: delivery unverifialbe
E-Delivery: from citizen s point of view 2) email notification 3) eid and signature based login (to confirm receipt) 1) document transmitted by administration 4) deliver document content
4 Example: criminal record 4. Example: criminal record certificate
Example: criminal record certificate anytime : anywhere filling in form (XML) signing with epayment back office citizen card (EPS) activity it (ELAK) electronic delivery www.help.gv.at www.buergerkarte.a t www.elak.gv.at www.zustellung.gv.at
Entry: www.help.gv.at
Application: criminal record certificate
Check for identity via citizen card
Application form
Signature of application
Electronic payment
Success
Electronic delivery - notification
Login at delivery service
Login identification & authentication
Overview delivered items
View/ forward/ print/ save the certificate
Voilà
5. Business Service Portal
Modules of the Business Service Portal Quick Wins Teilnehmer/ Unternehmens Datenbank Datendrehscheiben- Funktionen öffentlicher Zugang authentifizierter Zugang Acc cess Managem ment Portal im engeren Sinn User Management Rollen& Rechte Management Finanz- Online ELDA Statistik Verfahren ZOLL Verfahren DVR ERP Schnittstelle Informations- Services & DL-RL Informationsverpflichtungs Datenbank Basis für Verfahrensvernetzung
Business Service Portal goverment users public authorities corporate users Business Service Portal public authorities services data management e Id dentität, Id, rights, Rolle, role Rech es hte eid, rights, roles business services Business Register personalised (small) information business users transactions, one-stop-shop eid, rights, roles
Features Single Sign On for e-gov applications Supports smartcards and other eid providers Onboard user administration (SMEs) Gateway for SAML enabled user administrations (corporate) Business Register as attribute provider Infrastructure for future EAI
egovernment be part of our journey roland.ledinger@bka.gv.at ledinger@bka gv at http://www.digital.austria.gv.at