1. eMayor at a Glance – Standards
Electronic and Secure Municipal Administration
for European Citizens
eMayor
eMayor at a Glance – Standards
Venue: Deloitte - Brussels
Author(s): D. Polemi, P. Hengeveld
Organisations: Expertnet SA, Deloitte
Date: 11/11/2004

2. Partners of e-Mayor Deloitte Expertnet (GR)
University of Piraeus Research Centre (GR)
Fokus (D)
Ubizen (B)
AET Europe (NL)
Sadesi (E)
University of Zurich (CH)
University of Siegen (D)
Municipality of Aachen
Municipality of Sevilla
Municipality of Siena
Municipality of Bolzano
Municipality of Psychico (Athens)

3. Objectives of eMayor
building an open, secure, interoperable and cost effective eGovernment platform, addressing the needs of small and medium sized public organizations
multi-modal web services based on European standards which will deploy as much as possible open source software solutions for secure municipal eGovernment applications, including secure interaction with citizens, civil servants and governmental processes.

4. Specific Technical Objectives
Analysis of requirements & existing technologies
Selection of promising services and scenarios
Design and specifications of the eMayor platform
Development and implementation of the eMayor platform
Set-up, operation and evaluation

5. eMayor Platform Architecture

6. eMayor Pilot setup eMayor eMayor Internet eMayor eMayor MoSeville
SADESI
UoSiegen
eMayor
MoSiena
Internet
eMayor
MoAachen
D&T
eMayor
MoBolzano
UoZurich

7. eMayor standards adoption/assessment
Security XadES standard
Web-services: DSIG, XML Encryption, XKMS, XForms, W3C Accessability
E-government SAGA (OSCI), MIReG, OASIS

8. eMAyor Standards issues and solutions
X-Forms digsig and smartcard integration (W3C?) may need enhancements
E-Gov XML exchange standards at European Level
Language Issues at European Level
Issues around Government digital identification tokens (SmartCard) standardization and related CA-architecture at European Level needs practical solution