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  • Dietmar Gombotz
    Dietmar Gombotz    Premium Member   Group moderator
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    Software, Systems, Services for e-government in austria
    Grüß Gott, like you would say it over here in Vienna.

    It is a pleasure to find a good forum for all the topics concerning electronic government on this platform.
    My name is Dietmar Gombotz, i have my own company where i develop individual software for any kind of client.

    After i initial worked in the insurance and then eCommerce sector I was dragged into the field of electronic government. I worked on the "Standardportal" as a partner developer, which is the standard implementation for the austrian PVP (or Portalverbundprotokoll) specification and now in widespread use over different ministries and Chambers. I am interessted in connecting with interested members to export this product, if possible.

    Furthermore i worked in different projects around the central austrian directory service (ldap.gv.at).

    Not concerning this forum, i have clients from other businesses which are telecommunications and Independent Software Vendors, where i do software quality management consulting.

    My main interest is sharing information and getting to know what is happening outside of austria in the eGov Sector

    So Long

    Dietmar
    • 04 Apr 2007, 4:16 pm
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  • Dietmar Gombotz
    Dietmar Gombotz    Premium Member   Group moderator
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    Re^2: Software, Systems, Services for e-government in austria
    Of course,

    We have to differenciate between the Standardportal and the Portalverbundprotokoll (PVP).

    -- PVP

    The PVP offers a possibility for ministries and governmental institutions to share their applications through a trusted relationship. It is as you say a single sign on protocoll which works with 4 basic components.

    1) Client Computer/Web Browser - Bürgerkarte if available - can also be a web service client
    2) Stammportal - Portal of Login, defines Security Class, is responsible for binding login to a "PVP Participant", html or webservice
    3) Anwendungsportal - Portal of the accessed ministry
    4) Anwendung/Application - Application behind the Anwendungsportal

    A normal use case would be ZMR - Zentrales Melderegister
    The Client is a user in the ministry of justice, logged in at the ministries Stammportal by Kerberos or "Bürgerkarte"
    He accesses ZMR over his Stammportal. He is never leaving his Stammportal as this portal works as a proxy.
    The "participant" is checked on the Stammportal for rights to access the application and forwarded if this is the case. The Anwendungsportal (which is in the ministry of inner affairs) checks the incomming request and decides on bases of "source" and "kind of link/security" if the application is available (also on finer levels requests can be modified). If this is the case it will work as a proxy to the Application which is behind the portal in a secure network.
    The Application cannot be accesses without running over the portal. The portal is single point of error and the most crucial security checkpoint

    PVP Protocolls database is an official extension (part 2 and 3) of the "ldap.gv.at" named nationwide directory service for public institutions.

    --- Standardportal

    The PVP was the first standardised, but not the first, definition for a protocoll of a federation among the applications of public administration in austria.
    Out of the first implementations, which have been applications that took over the parts of Anwendungsportal and Application, there was the need to develop a standard product to reduce TCO, achieve higher quality/less errors and of course reduce "uncertainties" as of different implementations . This standard product is the Standardportal. A high quality software with a lot of manhours in it. It is used know by a long list of public institutions and took over a lot of applications. All further public applications of austria have to support the PVP protocoll.

    -- central directory service

    the central directory service is a public service, as well as used for a lot of internal work (like beeing one of the base components for the PVP protocoll)

    -- Area of Application
    The PVP and Standardportal are currently used for internatl communication between ministries and public offices.
    It will also be the basis of the "Bürgerportal" where cititzens will have the possibility to have all their available applications (finance/taxes, business services, ...) over a single system. This comes combined with the "Bürgerkarte" the authentication system favoured by the government.

    any further questions?
    • 05 Apr 2007, 2:14 pm