10 February 2012

World e-ID Congress calls for papers

The 2012 World e-ID Congress, which will take place from September 19-21 at Nice on the French Riviera, is calling for papers to be submitted by March 23. The conference's content will include evaluation of the world's major e-ID projects and wider insights into market trends and government policies. In addition, the 2012 conference will have an operational aspect, with consideration of best practices, innovative solutions and key technology challenges.

The World e-ID topic list is extensive:

National, transnational e-ID programs around the world: case studies and lessons learnt
► Regional strategies in Europe, the US, Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East, South America
► Business models, e.g. Outsourcing, Public-Private Partnerships
► IT-Infrastructure, e.g. ICT, PKI, Population Register, Terminals, Readers, Biometric Scanners
► Signature, e.g. qualified or mediated
► Pseudonymous and anonymous identity, e.g. restricted identification

Transport and Security on the road
► eDL, eTachograph, eVR, eToll-Collect, eTaxi-License
► National Implementations worldwide
► Registered Traveller and/or eGate Programs worldwide
► EU Regulations, Recommendations and Roadmap

e-Residence Permit
► EU Directive
► National Implementation, e.g. lessons learn
► IT-Infrastructure, e.g. mobile Terminals

e-Health
► National health cards projects, central vs. decentralized data management,
► EU and national programs: e-Emergency Card, e-Health cross border, eEHIC, EESSI etc.
► Security and privacy challenges in the healthcare domain
► e-Health solutions and applications

Other e-Gov/e-Services where e-ID is a key enabler:
►Police, Military, First Responder, etc.
►Education
►Benefits programmes (unemployment, pensions…) e.g. UIDAI
►Registration programmes, e.g. gun licence, voting
► Multipurpose Card, e.g. combination eGov-Services, eTicketing, ATM, etc.

Transversal issues:
Europe: Standardization status and outlook on European Citizen Card, eDL, Travel 3rd Generation, eEHIC, HPRO, SPOCS, LSP ICT STORK, LSP ICT epSOS, eJustice etc.
Outside Europe: application standards in the USA/NIST, in Japan/NICSS, in India/SCOSTA, in the Middle East/GCC, in Africa/SADC etc.
► Interoperability issues: towards a European e-Identity or larger scale interoperable e-ID services?
► Security, privacy and content protection

Private sector latest deployments and plans such as:
► Private health (insurers, hospitals)
► Entertainment (activity parks etc)
► Any other access control, time and attendance, loyalty, payments schemes

New e-ID solutions challenges
► Cloud Computing and IDM
► Critical infrastructure and IDM
► Multiple e-ID tokens
► Contactless cards according ISO and NFC according ECMA
► Corporate security & electronic access control solutions: card-based, biometrics-based, etc.
► Latest developments of matching technologies, capture technologies, user interfaces
► Physical and logical security convergence
► Pseudonymous and Anonymous in e-Services
► Secure mobile services and IDM
► Trusted identities in Cyberspace
► Physical unclonable functions

Outcomes of funding projects
► LSP, e.g. STORK_1, epSOS, PEPPOL, SPOCS, eJustice
► FP7, e.g. ABC4Trust, PrimeLife, PICOS, GINI_SA, PREMIUM-Service,

Outcomes of working groups
► Various focuses, e.g. EPAIC, EOS, MOBIDIG, SSEDIC

Information on the call for papers on these subjects, and details of the submission process, is available at http://www.worlde-idcongress.com/call-for-papers