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FIRST PROJECT YEAR (2021) OF MGOV4EU PROJECT IS COMPLETED

7. March 2022 Barbara Hucke mGov4.eu

With the practical implementation of the “eIDAS regulation”, the European Union
is simplifying the cross-border online identification process for citizens. In
addition, the “Single Digital Gateway (SDG) regulation” for the establishment of
a uniform digital access gate for administration in the EU entered into force.
Today, citizens expect eGovernment services to always be conveniently usable via
smartphone. Against this background, the mGov4EU (“Mobile Cross-Border
Government Services for Europe”) project, funded by the European Union as part
of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, started one year ago, with
the objectives named below, to enable mobile cross-border administrative
services in Europe. The 10 partners are proud to report on the achievements of
the first mGov4EU year:

ObjectivesWork towards objective and status in period 1 (month 1 to 12Enhancing
the technical eIDAS interoperability solution and SDG infrastructure to make
them compatible with mobile-only use casesThe technical architecture of eIDAS
interoperability has already been enriched, and the work continues towards a
more detailed designed technical architecture.
The SDG infrastructure has already been enriched, and the work continues towards
a more detailed designed technical architecture.Implementing enhanced eIDAS and
SDG related architectures, concepts and building blocksInitial implementation
activities have already been carried out. First results are available in the
form of initial proofs of concept. These proofs of concept have assessed the
feasibility of technical architectures obtained from precious work and hence
pave of ready-to-use software packages.
Combining enhanced eIDAS and SDG related solutions to enable secure and
user-friendly mobile use casesBy aligning regularly with other work packages
ensures that developed software packages support the realization of secure and
user-friendly use cases in a best possible way.
Integrating implemented solutions into pilots and testing them in real-world
scenariosDuring the first year of the project, the pilots and their use cases
have been defined, and the definition of an initial architecture has started
using C4 diagrams.Evaluating relevant perspectives of designed, implemented, and
operated architectures, concepts, building blocks, and pilotsThe implications
and resulting requirements – both for the infrastructure and for the planned
demonstrators – have been identified. In addition, the initial version of the
transdisciplinary evaluation framework has been created, providing the
foundation for the two-round evaluation of the pilots considering the design and
implementation phase.Implementing the once-only, digital-by-default, and
mobile-first principles in a user-centric mannermGov4EU pushes forward the
practical use of inclusive mobile Government services in Europe, bringing such
services in line with EU citizens’ expectations for safe, resilient, and
sustainable mobile communication, implementing the once-only and
digital-by-default principle across Europe.Implementing the appropriate legal
frameworkAn  overview  of  the  legal  landscape  and  regulations was
completed, analyzing the relevant legislation, and distilling applicable legal
requirements resulting from the GDPR, SDGR, eIDAS Regulation, and other
frameworks.Evaluation and involvement of relevant stakeholdersInitial
considerations regarding the stakeholders of the project were
undertaken.Ensuring the sustainability of project results and achievementsThe
basis of the communication activities and thus the “tools” of the communication
strategy were identified and implemented: website, social media channels,
project brochure, newsletter and so on.


MGOV4EU EXECUTIVE BOARD & GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING

8. November 2021 Stefan Baszanowski mGov4.eu

28th – 29th October 2021, Graz (Austria)

Great to have face-to-face project meetings again!

Last week, the 10 Gov4EU partners met face-to-face and digitally over two
productive days, with many discussions, decisions, workshops, determining the
next steps and a joint social programme.

The “physical team” of the mGov4EU Meeting!

The “digital team” of the mGov4EU Meeting!

Thanks to TU Graz for hosting the first physical consortium meeting after 10
months of working together virtually!


PERSONAL MOBILE GOVERNMENT – MIXING LEGAL FRAMEWORKS TO BUILD PRIVACY AND
CONTROL

18. October 2021 Hans Graux GDPR, mGov4.eu, SDGR

The central objective of the mGov4EU project is to facilitate the use of
inclusive mobile Government services in Europe. In order to do so, solutions are
being created that allow citizens to take control over their personal data, by
managing it on their own trusted mobile devices. They can choose to keep or
delete their personal information, to keep it to themselves or to share it, and
to make it accessible to public administrations when they want to.

On the surface, mGov4EU may seem to be a legal compliance dream, since it ticks
all the right boxes. Citizens manage their own personal data safely and
transparently, precisely as European data protection law – notably the well
known GDPR – would have it. They have reliable tools to identify themselves and
to sign documents in a trustworthy manner, as envisaged by the eIDAS Regulation
that covers these topics. And document exchanges with public administrations are
enabled only at the citizen’s individual request, in accordance with the
European rules on once-only data exchanges in the Single Digital Gateway
Regulation (SDGR). What’s not to love?

And yet, mGov4EU has some challenging legal knots to untie as well. Principally,
these relate to the paradigm shift that’s introduced by putting information
squarely in the hands of the citizens. In traditional e-government transactions,
information remains firmly under the control of public administrations. Citizens
may be able to get extracts, certificates, attestations and so forth for the
purposes of specific procedures; but at the root of traditional e-government,
public administrations act as data controllers, and as stewards of their
citizens’ data. While this approach is perhaps slightly (and certainly
unintentionally) patronising, it does have the benefit of ensuring that citizen
data is in the hands of an organisation that should, in principle, be able to
protect it – at least better than most citizens can.

Even the much more innovative information exchanges envisaged by the SDGR don’t
fundamentally challenge that logic. The SDGR requires data to be exchanged
directly between public administrations in certain e-government services, at the
citizen’s request. The citizen is to some extent in control, in the sense that
he must request the exchange before it can happen, and can even validate the
information to be exchanged before it is sent. But the information fundamentally
passes from one governmental body to another – an exchange from one controller
to the next, with the citizen acting as a gatekeeper, but not as the holder of
their own data.

And this is precisely where mGov4EU creates new possibilities, but also new
challenges. The standard SDGR data flow doesn’t involve mobile devices, let
alone data being held permanently by a citizen. Allowing citizens to keep their
own data on their own device creates a lot of new options, but also raises a lot
of new questions. Who determines which information will be stored on a phone?
How can we be sure that the data is safely protected against theft while on the
phone? Should all smartphones be supported? Should we validate the identity and
competences of aspiring recipients of data? And how do we secure the exchanges
between the different stakeholders?

All of these are critical questions to be examined in the course of mGov4EU. The
answers will bring innovations and advances compared to the status quo. In order
to execute the project in accordance with the EU’s high standards for data
protection – including the principles of data protection by design and by
default, as required by the GDPR – mGov4EU will have to ensure that sufficient
protection capabilities are built into the application itself, and into the
information exchanges enabled by the project. A naïve assumption that simply
requires citizens to exercise their own diligence, and places all responsibility
and risk squarely on their shoulders, would certainly be inadequate.

mGov4EU does not stand alone in examining this shift, however. After the project
initiated, a new legislative proposal was published, this time aiming to amend
the eIDAS Regulation. One of the innovations included a legal framework for a
mobile identity wallet, allowing citizens to securely store and manage their
data. If that sounds familiar, then that’s principally because the winds are
blowing in a common direction: towards a digital and mobile environment that
places greater data stewardship with the citizens themselves. Clearly, mGov4EU
has a bright future ahead of itself!


MGOV4EU MOBILISES EUROPEAN EGOVERNMENT

17. May 2021 Tina Hühnlein eIDAS, mGov4.eu

With the practical implementation of the “eIDAS regulation”, which has been
fully applicable since July 2016, the European Union has made great strides in
recent years in successfully simplifying the cross-border online identification
process for citizens. In addition, in December 2020 a first part of the “Single
Digital Gateway (SDG)” regulation for the establishment of a uniform digital
access gate for administration in the EU came into force. After all, there is an
unbroken trend towards the mobile and self-determined use of administrative
services: Today, citizens expect eGovernment services to always be conveniently
usable via smartphone. Against this background, the mGov4EU (“Mobile
Cross-Border Government Services for Europe”, https://mGov4.EU) project, funded
by the European Union as part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program, has recently started to enable mobile cross-border administrative
services in Europe. The project is open to further pilot partners and cordially
invites you to participate.

The mGov4EU project assembles leading European experts from government, business
and science located in Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, and Spain, to enable
secure and privacy-friendly mobile government services across Europe. mGov4EU
will put the citizen at the center of the considerations and offer them new,
secure and privacy-protecting options for managing their identity and personal
data – regardless of whether they or the eGovernment service are located in the
home country or in another EU Member State.

mGov4EU combines eIDAS with a single digital gateway in a user-centric way

The regulatory framework for this project is provided by Regulation (EU)
2018/1724 on the establishment of a Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR) for
the cross-border provision of services together with the eIDAS Regulation (EU)
No. 910/2014 for cross-border electronic identification and trust services for
electronic transactions in the internal market. The mGov4EU project puts the
requirements of self-sovereign and mobile citizens at the center of the
considerations and integrates the existing eIDAS ecosystem with the new Single
Digital Gateway to create a user-friendly overall system.



Figure 1: The mGov4EU-System at a glance

Within the mGov4EU project the existing and emerging possibilities of the eIDAS
and SDG regulation will be used and the principles of “once-only”,
“digital-by-default” and “mobile-first” will be implemented in practice. After a
user-friendly mobile identification and explicit approval by the user, it will
be possible to access data that is already available, so that the time-consuming
filling out of complex forms can be dispensed with, as far as possible. Through
the consistent use of the technologies available in modern smartphones, the
solutions targeted in mGov4EU are not only expected to meet the highest security
and data protection requirements, but also offer an excellent user-friendliness.
The mGov4EU project aims at providing basic building blocks for secure and
mobile eGovernment services that can be used throughout Europe and beyond. These
modules will be tested in selected pilot applications in the field of electronic
voting, smart mobility and, last but not least, mobile signature, before they
will be made available to a broader group of users. In this way, based on the
mGov4EU developments, a trustworthy federation of collaborative eGovernment
platforms can emerge, which facilitates the joint provision and reuse of
available and easy-to-use public services.

The mGov4EU project is carried out by an interdisciplinary team of experts

The mGov4EU project is fully funded by the EU research and innovation program
Horizon 2020 with a budget of 3.9 million Euro. The mGov4EU project assembles
top-class, internationally experienced, interdisciplinary experts from
administration, business and science. In addition to the TECHNIKON Forschungs-
und Planungsgesellschaft mbH as coordinator, the Center for Secure Information
Technology Austria (A-SIT together with A-SIT Plus GmbH), Danube University
Krems, ecsec GmbH, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten
Forschung e.V., go.eIDAS Association, Graz University of Technology, Scytl
Election Technologies, TIMELEX and the University of Tartu work on this project.

During the three-year project period, several mGov4EU pilot applications will be
designed and implemented in order to validate the solution modules and
infrastructure services provided. The pilot applications include electronic
voting, smart mobility based on subsidised taxi rides and mobile signature.
Interested authorities across Europe are cordially invited to contact the
mGov4EU project in order to participate in these pilot applications or to use
the innovative technologies in their own applications at an early stage.

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