Smart card distribution for E-government digital identity promotion: problems and solutions

The introduction of e-government services and applications leads to significant changes in the structure and organization of public administrations. In this paper we analyze a new solution ideated by Regione Marche to access electronic services that is the national services card, called Raffaello. Furthermore we explain the difference between a digital identity and a digital citizenship in order to introduce a new framework for e-government authentication: the "e-government identity management framework" composed by shared and standardized services that support specific mechanisms of authentication. We explain the use of the presented framework together with smart cards technologies for the digital citizenship