Smart Citizen ID Card

For government agencies looking to deploy ID smart cards that enable intelligent services for citizens, ActivIdentity provides a Smart Citizen ID Card solution that allows to issue, use and manage smart cards for identity verification and a variety of other applications such as access to e-government services, entitlements and benefits, payment and transportation.

Smart Citizen ID Cards are typically issued by government agencies (national, state or local) and provide one or several of the following services to citizens:

Identity Verification: National or state ID, Driver's license, e-passport, Border crossing
E-Government: Legally binding authentication and digital signature for: e-taxes, e-voting and other online government services
Travel: Access to Bus, Tramway, Train, and other local travel
Entitlements and Benefits: Healthcare and Social Security
Payment: e-purse, debit/credit, payment of benefits

Smart Citizen ID Cards can be issued with an initial set of services and securely updated after their issuance to add more services.

Business benefits

Increase security: Smart cards provide strong proof of identity through digital certificates, one-time passwords, and biometrics such as fingerprint matching.
Adoption of e-Government services: 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.
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.
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)