Archive for the ‘E-identity’ Category

E-identity: looking for business problems to be solved

Last week I visited for the first time the Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View (www.internetidentityworkshop.com). It was a great happening with lots of people ‘on a mission’ (me included).  After all impressions ‘sunk aways’ the following sticks around in my mind:

Fragmentation. The domain is highly fragmented with lots of initiatives. On the event [...]


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The payments landscape: the little voice in my head

Some weeks after the EPCA Conference in Disneyland some thought keep coming back in my mind: payments business will never be the same … Let me summarize:

1. people’s behaviour is continuously changing giving way for new ways of transacting. Social networks, mobile phones, growing e-commerce, businesses and supply chains integrate

2. the banking industry does not [...]


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BBS and PBS: An exciting new player to offer Financial Logistics

I received a press release announcing the intended merger of Danish PBS and Norwegian Nordito (owner of BBS and Teller). This merger will produce the leading player in the world’s leading market, miles ahead of the rest of the globe when it comes to integrated electronic value transactions.

Both PBS and Nordito are bank owned companies [...]


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On-line identities: coming soon to distance sellers?

As published in the EMOTA white paper on online payments (recommendation #3) distance sellers seek solutions which let buyers identify themselves online, in order to reduce fraud. In this respect the needs for distance sellers are the same as for governments who also want to bring a vast variety of governmental services on-line.

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Creating an e-Identity scheme for the Dutch government

This summer the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs initiated the creation of a new business to government e-identity scheme, called eRecognition for Companies (e-Herkenning voor bedrijven). The result of this effort will enable the online authentication of business users that want to interact with the government.

By the end of 2009 the first implementations will start.

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I’m a hot young blond, honestly…

If you don’t see each other face to face, how do you know who you are dealing with? This is important and it makes e-identity solutions a prerequisite for all e-business and e-commerce including online dating.

Sometimes someone comes up with a novel idea on how to verify that you are who you claim to be. [...]


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A twinge of unease: becoming a number through e-ID

August 19th, 2009 by Remco Boer in E-identity

I would hate to become D-503, the nameless hero in Zamyatin’s classic We. He lives in the One State, ruled by the Benefactor (think Big Brother’s bigger badder brother), where all inhabitants are identified by numbers and where utilitarianism is taken to extremes where even happiness is precisely quantified.

We was one of the first dystopian [...]


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