Bruin: Geen Verandering in het Kaartsysteem van identiteitskaart

Tom Espiner
Alternatief Nieuws RINF

Gordon Brown zal wezenlijk de geen huidige projecten van overheidsIT veranderen, analisten vaste Ovum bovengenoemd op Donderdag, de eerste volledige dag van bureau voor de nieuwe eerste minister.

„Wij zien geen reusachtige verandering in richting,“ bovengenoemde Ovum hogere analist John O' Brien. „Als kanselier, Bruin hoe dan ook vrij veel geholpen aan direct alle investeringen in de laatste 10 jaar - zij hadden zijn zegel van goedkeuring.“

In plaats daarvan, verwacht Ovum een grotere aandrijving naar efficiency. De „nuancen zullen,“ bovengenoemd O' Brien verschuiven. “The public sector will have to deliver services in a more effective way.”

As part of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), which is expected to identify future investments and reforms in government spending, central government will have to deliver five percent year-on-year efficiency gains.

This will encourage greater information sharing between government departments, according to Ovum. “Closer collaboration and a shared agenda will take up costs by making systems more effective,” said O’Brien. “Shared help-desk services, greater automation and remote working will take up costs. Using thin clients is nothing new in the IT world, but it will be for government.”

Ovum said it expected Brown to implement no change in the NHS’s National Programme for IT, because it is starting to demonstrate some success. However, projects such as the National Identity Register, that will support the ID cards scheme, may be delayed.

“For the ID cards scheme, procurement will continue as is. However, they’re modifying the nuts and bolts about information sharing and access to prevent fraud — this may require more thought,” said O’Brien.

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Biometric documents (ID cards and passports) will work fine for organisations where everyone concerned is on the database and every point of transaction has equipment to read these biometric documents.

Nationally it is virtually impossible to satisfy both these conditions and hence these biometric systems will fail by making bad problems worse. For example criminals will be tempted to use fakes of these documents where there is no equipment to read them. So rather than deterring this system will boost identity fraud which will be even more complex to solve.

This shows why these ID cards should not be implemented at any cost.

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