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The role of individuals’ identification in the development and
digital inclusion policies: the framework for the Ibero-American
social electronic identification
Introduction
“E-government objectives shall go further than mere
efficacy and efficiency of administration processes towards
ways that allow social, political and economical changes
focused on human development, equal opportunities and
social justice” (DECLARATION OF LISBOA; 2010)
Our region’s governments are pursuing a course of economic growth combined with social
justice. To do that, they are introducing public policies to support development aimed at
improving the daily lives of their citizens and achieving the complete social inclusion of those
who had previously been left behind.
This new Latin American approach, centred on the individual, is borne out by the range of
sectors (Agriculture, Health, Labour, Public Administration and Reform of the State, Tourism,
Education, Children and Young People, Justice, Presidency, Housing and Town Planning) covered
by the ministerial meetings held during the 20th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and
Governments in 2010, which resulted in the Declaration of Mar del Plata (“Education for Social
Inclusion”).
Each of the ministerial meetings covering the different policy areas treated social inclusion
as the core issue of public policy in the region. This was also particularly the case at the 13th
Meeting of the Ibero-American Network of Presidential Ministers or Equivalents (RIMPE), held
in Lisbon, Portugal, whose theme was the Participation of Citizens in the Age of Electronic
Government. Here the concept of “social justice” as the inspiration for public policy across the
Ibero-American region was first adopted multilaterally.
At that meeting it was agreed to work on the design of “a more open, transparent and
collaborative model of government that allows the economic, social, cultural and environmental
challenges facing the world to be answered more effectively”. To that end, the Declaration
envisages the use of information and communications technology (ICT) to transform the
administration of government, and recommends that countries promote “policies of electronic
government and simplified administration which should contribute, in the manner described, to
the development of better quality public services”. (FRAMEWORK, 2011).
The Lisbon Declaration recognises that “the development of secure methods of electronic
identification and authentication is another of the prerequisites for the desired change, with a
fundamental role in the promotion of simplified processes and the encouragement of the use of
electronic services”.
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