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Already in 2010, the Chief of the Cabinet Office announced and implemented the site named
“Healthy Internet” in order to promote knowledge about the “non careful” use of the Internet,
in order to alert parents and/or tutors on the need to be involved in this world together with
their children. But there is still more.
In this “cyber world” there are issues that have to be taken into account and where the real and
the virtual world have a common nexus, THE USER. The use of digital technologies (e-x) in the
citizen-government, citizen-citizen relations and other digital relations, with similarities to the
classes of relation and electronic commerce, turn it necessary, more than ever, to protect our
identity.
For this, two basic principles have to be understood: the right to be “anonymous” and the
right to have a “reliable digital identity”. The first one is referred to the fact that an individual
who accesses these technologies shall have the freedom to access the information that these
provide with no need of being “traced”. That is, except that the individual violates any Law, the
digital individual has to be free to surf, express him/herself and to communicate in the virtual
world having his privacy protected. Now then, with respect to “sensitive data” the individual
has the right to have a “reliable digital identity” where he or she and only he or she can claim
access to his or her data, processes or administrative procedures being ensured that no other
individual, with no right on these data, may obtain them.
In the first months of 2011, it was publicly known, in different parts of the world over eleven
thousand millions of data about individuals worldwide, containing names, addresses, credit
cards and associated subscriptions, and even health records were put at risk.
To this effect, and in different latitudes, there are projects being carried out to ensure a reliable,
interoperable and standard structure so that citizens can access to the information that the
State has about them in a digital and reliable manner, being this one of the characteristics of an
efficient and effective E-Government.
From what was mentioned, there emerges the need to have triple factor tools in the interaction
of individuals with their pairs, businesses, organizations or governments.
Adding up keys to elements with reliable electronic signature (PKI) and to biometric data will
bring about a reliable identity ecosystem, an initiative that can be adhered to by governments,
organizations that promote standards and companies that validate identities in the cyber space.
As it has been stated, year 2011 finds us harvesting those seeds that have been planted since
2003. Social inclusion, digital inclusion, education with IT equipment and tools, the generation
of digital contents, the open and free digital television, free Wi-Fi hot-spots and the extension
of Optic Fibre that allow integrating the whole Nation in a huge network of communications
and where distance is not a problem to share information, give free opinion, convey ideas and
participate actively.
From the Federal Government there are projects already accomplished, others under progress
and there will more in the future aiming at eradicating the digital divide to be able to attain
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