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The Danish State, regions and municipalities agreed on 12 January 2010 on a roadmap for the transition from the various usernames/password codes to the new digital signature. As from late summer 2011, people should only use the new, secure digital signature 'NemID' when accessing the public eServices requiring secure identification.
On 1 November 2010, the so-called "eDay 3" will mark the start of a collaboration initiative between the State, the regions and the municipalities, aiming towards an "easy online access to the government".
A specific example of this is the timetable agreed by the Steering Committee for joint-government cooperation (STS*) for the phasing out of the usernames/password codes. It is as follows:
Nationally, millions of Crowns are spent annually on issuing and maintaining the different PIN codes. By agreeing to let the new digital signature be the only key to the digital self-service solutions, we have taken a very important step to simplify the services and to ensure significant savings in the public sector in the future." says the project officer in the Digital Task Force, Jens Krieger Røyen.
The new digital signature is scheduled to be launched on 1 July 2010. In addition to providing a single sign-on solution for accessing eGoverment services, NemID will be usable for online banking and other digital services.
"The roadmap is consistent with the release of NemID from mid-2010. It is expected that, at the end of the year [2010], all Danish Internet bank customers will be using NemID and Denmark will be witnessing the unique deployment of a new, safe and user-friendly digital signature. In line with the roadmap, citizens will need only one key - NemID - to access public and private digital services alike." says Marie Munk, Deputy Director of the National IT and Telecom Agency.
A large number of the self-service solutions covered belong to the municipal level, whose representatives welcomed the roadmap: "The municipalities and Local Government Denmark are working diligently to exploit the opportunities offered by digital communication with citizens. The digital solutions must be as attractive and easy to use as possible, so that they may become the citizens' natural first choice. We have taken an important step towards this" said the centre manager of Local Government Denmark, Jakob Aagaard Harder.
"The SKATs TastSelv solutions were used in 2009 by 3.2 million Danes, and 20 % of those logged on with a digital signature. It is therefore quite natural that we support the roadmap for NemID "says Head of Tax Administration Natascha Dexter.
* The STS is made up of representatives of the municipalities, the regions and a wide range of ministries, the regions and a wide range of ministries.
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