Periodic Reporting for period 1 - mGov4EU (Mobile Cross-Border Government Services for Europe) Periodo di rendicontazione: 2021-01-01 al 2021-12-31 Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto The “Mobile Cross-Border Government Services for Europe” (mGov4EU) project pushes forward cross-border Government services in building on the foundation provided by the Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR) (EU) 1024/2012 and the eIDAS Regulation (EU) 910/2014 by advancing both for a mobile-device use we nowadays naturally expect. The problem addressed is that such cross-border services can be cumbersome if lots of data and evidences need to be provided. By making extensive use of automatic attribute provision and SDGR’s once-only principle, complemented by mobile identification so that, the burdensome filling of complex forms gets replaced by user-controlled and user-consented releasing of authoritative data. mGov4EU will, therefore, research, design, implement, and evaluate an open ecosystem for secure mobile government services to be used across Europe and beyond. This is accomplished by combining and enhancing the existing eIDAS Layer and SDGR Layer with modules for mobile devices that are generic enough so that they can be re-used in the emerging and thus still heterogeneous European mobile-government landscape. mGov4EU will provide a trustworthy federation of collaborative platforms, facilitating co-delivery, reuse, and trustworthy provision of accessible and easy-to-use public services. It will implement the once-only, digital-by-default and mobile-first principles in a user-centric and user-friendly manner to support and complement the practical implementation of eIDAS and SDGR. Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti The mGov4EU project started with a comprehensive analysis of the state-of-the-art. This covered areas as diverse as mobile identity, mobile government and cross-border data exchange, all relevant to the project’s objectives. In gaining in-depth knowledge of the state of play, a reference architecture has been established which defines the core components on electronic identity, electronic signature, single digital gateway elements and a digital identity wallet. This reference architecture has been further refined and modularised to building blocks that shall support the implementation of cross-border use cases. mGov4EU itself aims at demonstrating such use cases through pilots spanning areas as broad as i-voting, smart mobility, or electronic signatures. The project has, thus, derived comprehensive and concrete requirements stemming from the pilot domain and these requirements have been mapped to the building blocks. Architecture diagrams following a standard methodology have been developed for both the building blocks and the pilots to reach a common and consistent visualisation of both software to be developed and its application. In this first reporting period, concrete implementation work only started, but the first proof of concept implementations could already be completed to test core hypotheses and demonstrate them. Implementation of building blocks and their integration will follow.As a horizontal activity, the evaluation framework and privacy and ethical aspects have been addressed. This comprises work on the pilot evaluation that developed transdisciplinary indicators and security evaluation where potential candidate methodologies have been screened. In order to address ethics, gender, and legal aspects, and ethics and gender management framework has been established. Further horizontal aspects are communication and dissemination, where electronic channels like the web and social media have mainly been targeted and several scientific publications have been made. Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora) mGov4EU promises unprecedented user journeys in cross-border eGovernment services by using our mobile devices as we nowadays expect. Therefore, the project will provide building blocks and modules both for mobile devices and for back-end services that are generic enough to be integrated into applications. In using the eIDAS and SGDGR infrastructure, user-centric and user-controlled identification and provisioning of authoritative data using a mobile wallet shall be supported. These modules and building blocks will be validated through pilots carried out by the project. mgov4eu-overview-en.png
