Designing a large cross-border secured eID service for e-government and e-business

This paper briefly presents the efforts of several research teams that are working on the design and the implementation the largest world infrastructure for secure eID authentication enabling cross - border use of e-services such as e-learning, e-health, e-banking, e-business, e-procurement and e-justice in the European single market. The paper introduces the basic characteristics of the system, the quality assurance levels required for the eID services, the approach taken in the design of the business model and the problem of the service pricing. The paper concludes with a brief overview of the results obtained from the user survey regarding the expected adoption of the service and its take off.