First Public Demonstration of STORK Pilot Projects to Take Place at Belgian Presidency Conference

STORK today announces that pilot projects launched in November 2010 will be presented for the first time at the Lift-off Towards Open Government Conference.
By: STORK
 
Dec. 8, 2010 - PRLog -- Date: 15th – 16th December 2010
Title: Lift-off Towards Open Government
Venue: Booth 39, Square Brussels Meeting Center, Brussels, Belgium

The conference - an event under the Belgian Presidency - takes place in Brussels between 15th and 16th December 2010 and follows STORK’s third Industry Group Workshop on 14th December 2010. STORK is participating in this event along with the other Large Scale Pilots from the CIP ICT PSP namely PEPPOL http://www.peppol.eu/, SPOCS http://www.eu-spocs.eu/ and epSOS http://www.epsos.eu/ .

STORK is a three-year cross-border project to enable businesses and citizens to use their national electronic identities (eID) to gain secure online access to public services across EU borders. The six pilot projects will run for 12 months testing the proposed eID framework, architecture and common specifications. The pilots are: Cross-border authentication platform for electronic services; Safer Chat; Student Mobility; Electronic Delivery; Change of Address and ECAS Integration (European Commission Authentication Service).

Visitors to the STORK booth (39) at the Lift-off Towards Open Government Conference will have the opportunity to see live demonstrations of the pilot projects and learn about the benefits of national eID usage to securely access online public services throughout the EU.

STORK Co-Chair, Prof. Antonio Lioy from the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, comments: “The launch of the pilots marked an important milestone for the project and their results will have a substantial impact on eGovernment across Europe. This conference is the ideal opportunity to bring the pilots to the attention of public and private sector professionals throughout the EU.”

The day prior to the conference, 14th December at 2pm in rooms 313 & 315 of the Square Brussels Meeting Center, STORK will host the third Industry Group Workshop. STORK representatives including Co-Chairs Arvid Welin from the Swedish Tax Agency and Antonio Lioy from the Politecnico di Torino, Vasilis Koulolias from Gov2u and Roger Dean, Executive Director of EEMA, will talk to stakeholders about the solutions the pilot projects will offer and how they can be applied to industry. For further information regarding attendance of the workshop please visit: http://www.eid-stork.eu.

The Lift-off Towards Open Government Conference takes place on 15th and 16th December at Square Brussels Meeting Center, Glace Entrance, rue Mont des Arts, 1000 Brussels. For further information about the conference including details of how to register please visit: http://www.opengov2010.be.

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About STORK (www.eid-stork.eu)
STORK is a project under the ICT Policy Support Programme of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). It involves 17 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the UK) and Iceland (EEA member). The Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) aims to enhance the competitiveness of the EU through innovation activities. Part of CIP, the ICT Policy Support Programme, focuses on stimulating innovation and competitiveness through the wider uptake and optimal use of ICT by citizens, businesses and governments. The timing and objectives of STORK are ideal for producing high impact and contributing to the objectives of the Malmö Ministerial Declaration (2009), that is to say interoperability among Member States and the delivery of better public services.
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