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A Citizen Digital Assistant for e-Government

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Electronic Government

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((volume 2456))

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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.

Supported by the EU Fifth Framework Project FASME, http://www.fasme.org

Supported by the National Research Foundation (DFG)

Supported by a grant of the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Germany

    Nico Maibaum (Chair for Information and Communication Services), Igor Sedov (Chair for Information and Communication Services) & Clemens H. Cap (Chair for Information and Communication Services)

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  1. Nico Maibaum
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  1. Institute of Applied Computer Science, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

  2. Lehrstuhl für Verwaltungsinformatik, University of Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany

    Klaus Lenk

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Maibaum, N., Sedov, I., Cap, C.H. (2002). A Citizen Digital Assistant for e-Government. In: Traunmüller, R., Lenk, K. (eds) Electronic Government. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46138-8_46

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