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.