ID Future

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Projects background: The Baltic region is one of the world leaders in development of information technology (IT) infrastructure and high speed internet. Hence many new project ideas related with use of digital economy grow in this area. Estonia is the leader in IT sector comparing Baltic countries and has clear extensive strategy for the future. Estonia is also one of the most successful countries who are using digital signature and ID cards. Extensive use of ID cards is a big challenge for many countries but not all have succeeded. Currently there are more than 1 million ID card users in Estonia and 0,7 million ID card users in Latvia. But both countries are developing independent services and users cannot utilize these services when crossing the borders thus all country based services become inactive and useless. There are very limited number of services connected to ID card in Latvia mainly utilizing ID card as a travel document or as a digital signature tool. Cross-border nature: The main feature of ID card in every country is that it can be used as a travel document and as a personal identification document. Despite the local services available with the ID card in the country of issue, the ID card loses all of its additional benefits when crossing the countrys boarder. The necessity that an ID card would maintain the available services when crossing the countrys boarder is necesary, as with development of IT technology, the border of a country should not restrict the use of a modern personal identification document and services. Thus, within this project, it is planned to create a platform and functionallity, that an ID card (despit if issued in Latvia or Estonia) could be fully used in both countries without restrictions. Objective(s): Two companies from Estonia and Latvia who are developing software solutions related with use of personal identification cards (ID cards) has joined to create superior wide scale solution for ID card users that will include three main services: central loyalty platform; marketing platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); multi-platform mobile applications for individuals and SMEs for operation of loyalty and marketing platforms. Main activities: Project main activities are: Development of software for central loyalty platform, marketing platform as well as mobile applications; Marketing activities (creating public awareness of the project and its aim); Project management.

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