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Creating test environments with the private sector

Posted by: David Rennie, Posted on: 3 February 2017 - Categories: Industry and market engagement

David Rennie provides an update to our work with the private sector. We've set up test environments to explore one of the possible ways private sector companies can work with Verify.

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The value of digital identity to the financial sector

Posted by: David Rennie and Jess McEvoy, Posted on: 22 September 2016 - Categories: Industry and market engagement
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David Rennie and Jess McEvoy provide an update to our work with the private sector, particularly focusing on our plans for making digital identities from certified companies available to the financial sector.

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How we introduce GOV.UK Verify

Posted by: Matt Parsons, Posted on: 17 August 2016 - Categories: How GOV.UK Verify works
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Matt Parsons, Head of Policy and Engagement for GOV.UK Verify, shares a version of a talk we give when we meet people face-to-face who need to know about GOV.UK Verify and how it works.

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Private sector needs for identity assurance: workshop dates

Posted by: David Rennie, Posted on: 30 September 2015 - Categories: Industry and market engagement

We recently blogged about a consultation that the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is running on the private sector’s needs for identity assurance. You can read the white paper to see the progress of this project so far. OIX has now announced a …

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Working with the private sector to verify identity

Posted by: David Rennie, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: Industry and market engagement

We’ve posted before about the work we are doing with private sector organisations, primarily through the Open Identity Exchange. This post is about how we are working with the private sector to make it easier for users to verify their …

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Identity assurance for organisations and agents

Posted by: Janet Hughes, Posted on: 20 October 2014 - Categories: Policy, Research, Standards and certification

GOV.UK Verify is the new way for people to prove their identity when accessing government services. It is primarily for people who want to access digital services for individuals - services relating to things like personal tax, passports and driver …

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Organisation and Authority Management Discovery

Posted by: Joanne Inskip, Posted on: 13 February 2014 - Categories: Research

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 …

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Organisation and Authority Management

Posted by: David Illsley, Posted on: 28 November 2013 - Categories: Delivery, Research
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Identity assurance for organisations and authority management is an important new area of scope for the programme that will help to address user needs such as: "As a director of a limited company I want to authorise an employee to …

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Good Practice Guide 46

Posted by: Steve Wreyford, Posted on: 18 October 2013 - Categories: Standards and certification

The latest in our series of Good Practice Guides (GPG 46) is now available on GOV.UK. This guide deals with proving the authenticity (identity) of a legal organisation, such as a business, partnership, charity, government body or other public sector …

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