Future Services Overview

One of the benefits of developing all-of-government shared services such as the Government Logon Service and Identity Verification Service, is the ability to build a secure, reliable, highly available, and networked platform that can be leveraged with minimal additional cost for future online services.

While maintaining a common online front-end for people, services will be able to be delivered seamlessly by diverse sources or agencies across government. This makes the platform ideal in leveraging the benefits of the online channel for services integration, agency coordination, and joined-up government, the essential ingredients for successfully transforming government.

Over the longer term, this will result in a comprehensive suit of authentication-related services, each run by the most appropriate agency, all leveraging the shared infrastructure and online front-end.

The Authentication Programme is therefore considering ways of leveraging the investment government is making in the shared services infrastructure to develop and design additional authentication services that contribute to achieving government’s longer term strategic goals.

These services could include collaboration with agencies across government that hold authoritative source data as well as services such as value-added services such as authentication of remote access.