The work on the project officially started in September 2016. A public website (
http://lightest.eu/(si apre in una nuova finestra)) as well the international website of the project (
http://www.lightest-community.org/(si apre in una nuova finestra)) were set up to promote the project and to inform the public from all over the world of important news.
In the first period of the project a lot of effort was put into the survey and definition of functional, economical, security and accountability, privacy and usability requirements as well as several inventories and use cases. In addition, the reference architecture was defined and the technical work on the infrastructure of the processes started. As regards to the trust propagation of derived mobile IDs, its architecture was defined and a demonstrator was successfully implemented. A significant progress in the testing task was the setup of Minder Testbed.
In the second period of LIGHTest, the main work was concentrated on the implementation part of the project: the design of two pilots (communication services and eProcurement) and integration of all software components. Moreover, the components and final products were successfully tested and evaluated, and several demonstrations were built. A lot of effort was given to the dissemination and exploitation of the project resulting in cooperation with a number of institutions all over the world and existing projects.
Furthermore, the LIGHTest project was present at numerous events and conferences. Among them were a workshop at the Data Processing Center of the Ministry of Transportation, Communications, and High Technologies of Azerbaijan, Open Identity Summits in Rome, Karlstad, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Baku E-Trade Forum, go.eIDAS Summit, ISSE, and numerous other events. Moreover, in the framework of collaboration between LIGHTest and UNHCR several successful workshops were organized among which are a joint Workshop on Digital Identity related to ID2020 in Munich and a workshop meeting regarding UNHCR Trust Scheme Development in Copenhagen.
Moreover, LIGHTest has been very active in creating its own community by organizing recurring workshops in the framework of LIGHTest International Forum (Singapore, London, Baku, and Boston). The International Forum helped gain external insight on various topics of three different channels; Business, Legal, and Technical. This insight further helped the development of the project, while establishing relationships with potential stakeholders from a global community. One of the most prominent meetings was the LIGHTest Workshop in Baku, Azerbaijan. This stakeholder relationship continued also outside the International Forum and led to the commitment to operate a LIGHTest TSPA in Azerbaijan.