More on the "Identity Assurance programme "

[William Heath]

Without wishing to wave red rags my view is there's quite a lot to do and
no-one to do it. They're just deciding how to allocate the funds this week
but in the grand scheme of things I dont think this is the biggest
government IT overspend out there. It's a great deal less than US NSTIC
budget (even allowing for larger country). They've got pressing deadlines
for huge operational systems (notably Universal Credit) which depend on
this.

But let's ask.


William



On 1 November 2011 21:34, James Firth <james2 at jfirth.net> wrote:

> William Heath wrote:
> > - will the "ID providers" thrive as a separate new business or simply
> > merge into the other sorts of verification service (because verifying a
> > name or an account number is no different from verifying any other
> > attribute)
>
> I know it doesn't need saying, but I am going to anyway. Given this, and
> the
> obvious commercial and cost-saving benefits to banks etc, why the hell is
> £10m of public money being chucked at the problem?
>
> (Apologies for using the list like my blog)
>
> James Firth
>
>
>


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