Smart Citizen Entitlements Card
For government agencies looking to deploy smart cards that enable intelligent entitlements and benefits services for citizens, ActivIdentity provides a Smart Citizen Entitlements Card solution that allows to issue, use and manage smart cards for a variety of applications including access to entitlements and benefits, e-government services, payment and transportation. The solution is designed for large scale deployment of smart cards to millions of end-users, and allows advanced customization and integration into existing IT systems and infrastructure.
Smart Citizen Entitlement Cards are typically issued by government agencies (national, state or local) such as healthcare departments or municipalities.
They provide one or several of the following services to citizens:
- Entitlements and Benefits: Healthcare and Social Security
- E-Government: Legally binding authentication and digital signature for: e-taxes, e-voting and other online government services
- Payment: e-purse, debit/credit, payment of benefits
- Travel: Access to Bus, Tramway, Train, and other local travel
Smart Citizen Entitlements Cards can be issued with an initial set of services, and securely updated after their issuance to add more services.
Business benefits
- Reduce fraud: Entitlements and benefits fraud is a major issue for governments
around the world: individuals fraudulently access benefits with forged documents. Smart Citizen Cards
with advanced security features can reduce fraud dramatically.
- Improve efficiency: Eliminates paper form data entry and associated
errors experienced in typical governement to citizen interactions by reading information directly
from the smart card.
- Increase security: Smart cards provide strong proof of identity through
digital certificates, one-time passwords, and biometrics such as fingerprint matching.
- Ease adoption of e-Government: The tangible security and added convenience of
the smart card facilitate adoption of e-government services by reducing the fear of online identity
theft.
- Protect privacy: Smart cards can be configured to only release private
information upon entry of a Personal Identification Number, only known to the citizen.
- Modernize government image: By enabling new services and enforcing security
and privacy, a smart citizen services card projects a modern image of government.
Technical benefits
- Field-proven: ActivIdentity solutions are used by many government agencies around
the world for large scale smart card deployments including the U.S. DoD Common Access Card, the
U.S. Veterans Administration and Department of Interior, as well as Singapore Defence Science
and Technology Agency.
- Interoperable: ActivIdentity products support a variety of smart cards,
readers, certificate authorities, databases and operating systems for seamless integration into
existing IT infrastructure. Please refer to ActivIdentity product specifications
on www.actividentity.com/products for more details on supported platforms.
- Extensible and open: ActivIdentity Software Development Kits (SDKs) provide
a comprehensive set of public Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for integration and
customization by Global System Integrator partners including EDS, IBM Global Services, Unisys,
and more. The open standards-based architecture of ActivIdentity products allows high levels
of customization, and integration with virtually any third party system or application.
- Future-proof: ActivID™ card management technology allows organizations
to deploy smart cards for immediate needs, and to update the cards post-issuance securely in the
field. ActivClient™ middleware shields organizations from the headaches of evolving
interoperability standards by providing transparent support for multiple generations of
specifications including CAC, GSC-IS 2.1, PIV, and will continue to evolve to support new standards.
- Employee smart card: ActivIdentity also offers a variety of solutions for
government employee identification, so the same smart card technology can be used to provide a
smart citizen services card as well as a smart employee ID for strong authentication, secure
information & transactions, and enterprise single sign on (e-SSO).
- A name you can trust: With over a decade of domain expertise, a broad
patent portfolio and an extensive investment in ongoing research and development, ActivIdentity
develops all its software products internally and ensures that its solutions continue to provide
the industry-leading security, usability, and interoperability that government agencies require.
Standards Support
- Personal Identity Verification (PIV) / FIPS 201 validated cards and applications
- FIPS 140-2 (Level 2 and Level 3) certified cards and applications
- FIPS 140-2 (Level 2 and Level 3) certified Hardware Security Modules
- Directory interface: LDAP v3.0
- Web communications: SSL 3.0
- PKI: PKCS#7, PKCS#10, PKCS#11, X509, CRMF / CMMF / CRM
- U.S. DoD Government Smart Card Interoperability Standard (GSC-IS)
- U.S. DoD Common Access Card (CAC)
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