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W-SPES
Widening SPES
What does the project promote?
Partners from cities across Europe have recognised, that for the public and private sector alike, there is a necessity to identify and prove who customers are when carrying out secure transactions online.
By using so-called .digital certificates., a citizen can prove who they are, when dealing with a Council
or Business, just as well as if they were face to face in an office. The technology behind this is proven a
nd mature and is known as PKI. public key infrastructure.
W-SPES will try to make its use more widespread by removing some of the existing obstacles and helping
establish some common ways of working across the EU. There is a shortage of applications which need this
technology. The partners have been working together in the earlier SPES project developing such applications
and these will be shared with new partners joining the team. Similarly, there is a need for a certificate
issued in one city to be recognisable in another. By setting processes for how these credentials should be
issued to the citizen in a standardised way and by working on the technical aspects needed for such mutual
recognition, progress was made. This work is to be taken forward.
The original partners were the cities of Prato, Saarbruecken and Sheffield. These have now been joined by
the cities of Bremerhaven, Dundee, Koper and Sunderland along with participants from the provinces of Prato
and Piacenza. A technical partner, Axetel, will provide valuable experience gained in the project EU-PKI.
The work of this project will enable many more kinds of transactions to be carried out online, confident
that security and privacy is being taken care of. We need to create a large number of uses for the digital
signature so that it becomes common place which will then encourage further applications to be developed.
German businesses participating electronically in UK Public Authority tenders, a Scottish citizen managing
property in Italy, a UK entrepreneur opening a business in Slovenia all become possible thanks to a digital
signature scheme recognised and accepted by all of the involved countries.
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prato writes
"The project partners launched a new initiative to carry on the work of the W-SPES project when it comes to its conclusion.This is the SPES CITIES network.
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Monday, February 11 @ 12:21:13 CET (1874 reads)
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prato writes
"The second W-SPES workshop was held at the prestigious, award-winning Magna Centre close to Sheffield in South Yorkshire, UK on 31st January 2008. The intention of the workshop was to start the “mainstreaming” of eIdentity and electronic signatures into the work of public administrations.
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Friday, February 08 @ 10:37:48 CET (12564 reads)
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Anonymous writes
"The second international wortshop of W-SPES project has been scheduled next January 31st 2008 in Sheffield together with the “Yorkshire Digital eco-system – removing the barriers" coference.
click here to download the conference brochure.
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Friday, December 21 @ 12:11:17 CET (2179 reads)
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bremerhaven writes
"(official press-realease from b.i.t. Bremerhaven) From the birth to death official formalities accompany the life of people. And even at the cemetery a building permit must be requested for the gravestone. This however is now substantially simpler: Stone-cutters can place the requests on-line.
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Wednesday, May 09 @ 13:36:54 CEST (2713 reads)
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prato writes
"The planned first workshop foressen by the Project dissemination planning took place last monday in Prato as scheduled. The presented material and the videos of the speeches will be available on line in few days.
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Friday, March 09 @ 12:35:56 CET (2827 reads)
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