Cidway M Gov2009 Barcelona V1

Discover the future of security on www.cidway.com

DISCOVER CIDWAY

IS MOBILE VOTING A REALITY ?

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Agenda

• CIDWAY

• E/M GOVERNMENT SERVICES

• MOBILE VOTING• DEFINITION

• KEY REQUIREMENTS

• KEY OBJECTIVES

• WHY MOBILE VOTING

• EXPERIMENTS & METHODS

• THE CHALLENGES


CIDWAY – Background

Cidway

Created in December 2005

Head Quarters in Lausanne, CH

Sales Offices in Switzerland &

UK

Internal R&D & Patent Office

Partners and Customer Services

Global presence via partners &

resellers

Support center 24/7

Support portal available for partners

Consulting services

CIDWAY’s VisionAuthentication and transactions should be safe, reliable and easy for anyone, anywhere, anytime

This vision is fuelled by: Meeting virtually all authentication requirements Making Authentication & Transactions simple, easy, accessible, secure and user friendly Addressing virtually unlimited vertical applications from one platform

Providing the next generation mobile software security solution for identity, transaction and

data protection


Secure Identity, Authentication & Transactions

Banking & Finance

E-Banking, Mobile-Banking, Transactions signature, Phone Banking, ATM & POS anti-fraud…

Mobile Application’s Providers

Securing access & transactions for mobile applications (e/m-Commerce, e/m-Gambling, sms authentication…)

Mobile Money & Payment

P2P mPayment, cardless ATM cash withdrawal, POS mPayment, Bill payment…

Enterprise resource access

Two-factor authentication to Login to the Desktop / VPN access / Applications / Citrix / Webmail…

Homeland Security

Airline pilot & vehicle identification

physical security solutions (guard exchange id., biometric implementation, etc.)

Telecommunications

Mobile Top-up, resources access, ASP authentication solution, SIM based OTP…

E-Government services

Citizens authentication & transaction security, electronic & mobile voting, bill payment…

Enable new channels - Improve client’s confidence & loyalty – Lower TCO


Electronic / Mobile – government services

Intra-government Enterprise-government Citizen-government Trusted-party authentication Etc…

A VIEW ATAccessing via a Web portal or a Mobile “device” to Government services & transactions

Layne and Lee (2001): e-government is ‘government’s use of technology, particularly web-based Internet applications to enhance the access to and delivery of government information and service to citizens, business partners, employees, other agencies, and government entities.’


Mobile Voting Definition (for this presentation)


Mobile Voting Definition (for this presentation)…


Mobile Voting Definition (for this presentation)

Usage of a Mobile Phone (wireless capabilities) to vote, participate to an election in the context of the Democracy

With long lines expected at polling places for any elections, many young and less young voters may be wondering today “why couldn’t I vote with my Mobile phone”? Wouldn’t that be easier than taking time-off and fighting the crowd? After all, the younger generation is already used to shopping mobile, paying mobile and even voting via sms for many entertainment series or opinion surveys… so why not mobile voting ensuring a fair election?Mr. Aviv - 2008


Key Requirements of Mobile Voting

1. Delivering to the voting entity the absolute confidence that only the authorized voter will, indeed, vote.

2. Enabling the voter to vote with absolute confidentiality, nobody will ever know what he/she voted (varies by countries – CH vs UK).

3. Enabling the voter to vote from anywhere in the globe, wherever he/she will be, and without needing any special network, nor equipment, nor a personal computer (PC).

4. Enabling the voter to vote with confidence that their vote will reach the final count with no compromised integrity, in others words what he/she have voted is what the voting authorities will get.

5. Enabling only the voter to vote, avoiding the possibility to “sell a vote”

6. Democratic Control: enabling the recount of the electronic votes, as many times as desired, eliminating any possible doubts on the result and delivering a way to verify voters' choices after the fact.

7. Eliminating the need to showing up in some physical location and saying who you are under penalty of perjury in order to gain the right to vote


Key Objectives of Mobile Voting

1. Additional attractive voting channel (not a replacement)

2. Improve accessibility to elderly people, disabled, blind…

3. Increase participation rate

4. Improve accessibility to people living abroad or travelling at voting time.

5. Reduces voting costs (?)

6. m-inclusion

7. Provide an alternative to avoid unfair or unlawful exclusion from voting.


Why Mobile Voting ?

At least 10 percent of the U.S. population will use mobile to interact with government by2012, according to Michael Cambell

Madrid Participa consulted citizens regarding key issues related to the development of their district. 16% of participants utilized the secure mVoting platform

In a country (India) where over 700 million people are eligible to vote and more than half that number have access to mobile phones (375 million according to TRAI data), wouldn’t a voting-on-the-go option also help counter voter apathy?.

Swiss citizens are called four to six times a year to the ballot. In Geneva, postal voting has been introduced in 1995, in reaction to the disaffection of ballot. It pushed turnout up by 20 percentage points, from 30-35 % in 1995 to 50-55 % on the average in 2004. The message is clear: citizens want simplicity and convenience

CH-2004: 24 % des votants ont utilisé la voie électronique, avec une nette préférence pour l’Internet. Le record a été atteint dans la commune rurale de Bertschikon : 43 % de vote en ligne, soit 27 % par Internet et 16 % par téléphone mobile.conseiller d’Etat zurichois Markus Notter.

Citizens’ acceptation !


Experiments & methods

Last November 27, voters of about fifteen cities of the canton of Zurich, in Switzerland, could vote by Internet, but also by SMS, on several referendum. It was the end of a series of tests launched in 2003 in Switzerland, initially in Geneva, then in Neuchâtel and Zurich.

As Spain’s first ever multi-channel e-participation event for some 120,000 citizens (also one of the largest such events in Europe), Madrid Participa consulted citizens regarding key issues related to the development of their district. 16% of participants utilized the secure mVoting platform

Estonia approves voting by mobile phone, Dec 14, 2008 Estonia’s parliament has approved a law that will make Estonia the first country in the world to allow voting by mobile phone. Estonia already has an Internet-based voting system that was used successfully in last year’s parliamentary vote. Expanding upon that success, Estonia intends on having a mobile voting system in place for its next election slated for 2011

Russia's parliament has approved a new law, enabling citizens to vote by mobile phone in the next parliamentary elections, scheduled for 2011, reports Ria Novosti citing the head of the elections commission, Vladimir Churov


The Challenges

• Democratic Control• M-voting leads towards a stronger delegation of competence than traditional ballot

• Legitimacy• Is it accepted by all participants (politicians, citizens, etc.)

• Security• Any nation-wide m-voting election will attract mischief tentative… what is the reference,

postal voting? Evolution of technology…

• Law• Maybe the slowest part?

• Risk Management• How to react if a problem were to emerge (with digital voting problems can affect a

substantial amount of votes)?

• Eventual impact on electoral rules & behaviors

• Privacy• How to draw the line between voter’s authentication and private life preservation?

A MULTI-DISCIPLINES APPROACH IS NECESSARY

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

For more information, contact:

Laurent FILLIATMob. +41 78 842 11 47Tel. +41 21 331 27 00Fax +41 21 331 27 09

Email: [email protected]

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