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Procurement 2: timeframes and market briefing event
At the end of November we will publish a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) to launch a procurement exercise for suppliers interested in becoming identity providers (IDPs).
Private beta demonstration
Watch Janet Hughes demonstrating the identity assurance private beta service at the recent OIX UK, Economics of Identity Summit. This is work in progress, presented to give a flavour of how it will work. The service is liable to change quite a …
The second private beta
Back in February we blogged about our first private beta with HMRC. This week, the next service to use identity assurance, DVLA View Driving Record, started their identity assurance private beta. Sarah Morgan has written about it on the DVLA …
The Economics of Identity
On Monday 9th June OIX UK presented Economics of Identity, their highly anticipated, fully booked event hosted at the KPMG offices in London.
Identity assurance, procurement 2
Today we’ve issued a prior information notice (PIN) in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). The notice tells companies that we plan to start a formal procurement exercise in June, and asks them to express their interest.
Mobiles and identity
Once upon a time a mobile phone was just a phone that you could take when you left the house. Now nearly every digital device is a 'mobile' and mobile identity is becoming more and more important.
Organisation and Authority Management Discovery
Back in November, we blogged about authority management - an extension of the identity assurance programme which will allow people to act digitally on behalf of other people or organisations. We’ve just completed a nine-week discovery exercise. Our aims were …
Identity assurance goes into beta
This week a small group of people became the first users to sign in to a government service using identity assurance. (Janet Hughes’ recent blog post explained what identity assurance is and how it works.) HMRC’s Pay As you Earn …
What is identity assurance?
Identity assurance is a new service that will give people a secure and convenient way to sign in to government services. Read Janet Hughes' post explaining it on the GDS blog.
Security and convenience: Meeting user needs
As with all the work being done under the digital transformation programme, the identity assurance programme starts with user needs. But, in this case, there are two separate and contrasting needs to consider. We thought it would be interesting to …