I recently came across this website during research about virtual organisations and cooperation and i have to say it’s very interesting stuff. I was wondering what the BC goverment means by introducing a information card. Will it be something like a beefed-up token, chipcard or something that is completly digital? And more importantly will the BC goverment be the credential provider in this case or will a company be the credential provider. Here in The Netherlands we have a simiral system which was recently implemented by the goverment for all goverment related issues people might have, it’s called DigiD (http://www.digid.nl/english/).

Love your presentations, helped me greatly with my assignment.

Information cards are what are managed by Microsoft CardSpace and Novell’s DigitalMe.

Are any of the other Canadian provinces running a similar project or is BC an early adapter in Canada? If it would prove succesfull in BC, they might implement nationwide.

There is a pan-Canadian task force that is watching what is happening in BC. I’m not familiar with other provinces implementing at this point in time.

I appreciated your video presentation, which I got from Wikipedia http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/
As my ability in understanding spoken English (American…) is not so strong, showing most of the key words was a good idea. Is there any available tool to slow down a recorded spoken presentation?

Not that I know of, sorry.

We have idCard in Estonia. Its piece of plastic with a chip on it. With that chip you can log into web and do most of the stuff- even internet banking, starting a company, paying bills, signing contracts … Basically it has as much credibility than showing up in person with a passport in your hand. It works well here and it is secure.

If you are more interested, drop me an e-mail. Maybe it could help with identity 2.0

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