Identity federations: A new perspective for Bangladesh

With a view to provide more effective, enhanced and accessible services to their citizens, Governments around the globe have started different web services under the initiative of e-Government. Many such services extensively utilise the Federated Identity framework due to its huge number of benefits. This paper analyses how different e-initiatives in Bangladesh can take advantage of this technology by illustrating use-cases in two different domains. As the online service and the e-Governance paradigm in Bangladesh are relatively new and evolving rapidly, we believe that this is the high-time to consider the benefits this technology can bring for the Government as well as the citizen.