# Presentation: 070489

## The Value of PKI in Achieving the Vision of E-Government

***The Value of PKI in Achieving the Vision of E-Government***
***November 29, 2001***

**Mark Forman**
- Associate Director, IT and E-Government OMB

## E-Government is a Major Management Initiative for the Federal Government

**The Vision: **an order of magnitude improvement in the federal government’s value to the citizen.
**The Definition**:  the use of digital technologies to transform government operations in order to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and service delivery.
**The Principles:**
*** ******Integral component of President’s Management***
***   ******Agenda***
*** ******Market-based, Results-oriented, Citizen-Centered***
*** ******Simplify & Unify***

## The Emerging E-transaction Landscape Creates a Web of Information Interdependency

**The Emerging E-transaction Landscape Creates a Web of Information Interdependency**

***Intra-agency***

***Inter- and Intra-governmental***

***Agency to business***

***Agency to the public***

## What does this mean?
Users Must Have a Unified View of data and Simple Business Processes In order to Reap Benefits From Emerging Web Services Technologies

***or ***
***Distributed Decision making***

**What does this mean?**
***Users Must Have a Unified View of data and Simple Business Processes In order to Reap Benefits From Emerging Web Services Technologies***

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**Capture**

**Store**

**Query**

**Distribute**

**Analyze**

**Act**

**Learn**

***e-Government opportunities create benefits throughout the ***_***Information Value Chain***_

**Reduce burden (for example, applying on-line for services, submitting data and payments on-line)**
**Reuse information, consolidate data bases, and unify islands of automation to reduce maintenance and usage costs (e.g. peer-to-peer or search vs. data warehouses) **
**Publish information to devolve governance to local community**
**Improve knowledge management to improve decisions, yielding better service, faster and at lower costs**

**Notes:**
The core process of government is decision making, whether it is about a policy, a budget, determination of who gets welfare or a contract.  All of the inherently government functions are characterized by a decision.  And, decisions are made along what I call an information value chain. 
From a citizen or business standpoint, they give their data or money to government, then government seems to spend a lot of time and money doing something.  When a citizen comes to get information or a service, they hope they can get what they need quickly and without error or hassle.
It all resets on how well information is collected, processed, and analyzed.
Today, we find four major plays in applying e-business to government:
Reduce burden (for example, applying on-line for services, submitting data and payments on-line)
Reuse information, consolidate data bases around standard DTDs, and unify islands of automation to reduce data maintenance and usage costs 
Publish information to devolve governance to local community
Improve knowledge management to improve decisions, yielding better service, faster and at lower costs

## The Emerging Government Knowledge Worker will rely on Enterprise Information Platforms

*File Shares*

*Tracking DB*

*Document Library*

*Team Web Site*

*Partner Web Site*

*3**rd** Party Web Sites*
*(e.g., .gov, .org, PTO, EDGAR)*

***Enterprise Data Integration***

*Portal Software, Security/Access, APIs, OLAP, Advanced Search, KM tools*

***Legacy LOB Apps***

***Enterprise Apps (ERP, etc)***

***Enterprise Application Integration***

***How do we secure the applications, data and environment while accelerating and improving decisions? Should there be government specific approaches?***

***Enterprise & Systems Security  (PKI, bridge, COOP, etc.)***

## E-Government Strategy: 

**Initiatives Require Security & Privacy**

**Government to Citizen****	****	****	**

**Government to Government****	****	**

**Internal Effectiveness and Efficiency**

- 1.  USA Service
- 2.  EZ Tax Filing
- 3.  Online Access for Loans
- 4.  Recreation One Stop
- 5.  Eligibility Assistance
-      Online

- 1.  e-Vital (business case)
- 2.  e-Grants
- 3.  Disaster Assistance
-      and Crisis Response
- 4.  Geospatial Information
-      One Stop
- 5.  Wireless Networks

- 1.  e-Training
- 2.  Recruitment One Stop
- 3.  Enterprise HR	Integration
-      including e-Travel
- 4.  Integrated Acquisition
- 5.  e-Records Management

**Government to Business**
**	****	**

- 1.  Federal Asset Sales
- 2.  Online Rulemaking Management
- 3.  Simplified & Unified Tax & Wage Reporting
- 4.  Consolidated Health Informatics (business case)
- 5.  Business Compliance One Stop
- 6. International Trade Process Streamlining

## E-Government Strategy:Solutions to Key Barriers Incorporate PKI

**E-Government Strategy:****Solutions to Key Barriers Incorporate PKI**

## More Broadly, OMB is Pursing a Five-Part Approach

**More Broadly, OMB is Pursing a Five-Part Approach**

**Business Cases must document security requirements and costs (policies, staff & training, processes, testing, IT)**
**Agency Capital Planning process must document that adequate security controls are incorporated into life cycle plans and funding for each system**
**Project Matrix -- systems analysis of cybersecurity**
**Agency annual GISRA reports and corrective action plans must reflect agency spending priorities (including system needs, patches, etc.) **
***These must lead to clear audit trails that link needs, corrective action plans and agency spending priorities (including business cases)***** **

## As we look to the future, what role does PKI play?

**We can leverage PKI to help meet the needs of upcoming mandates such as GPEA, HIPPA and others.**
**PKI is a facilitator of unifying islands of automation**
**PKI is not the answer for all applications but for specific applications it can add the required authentication necessary for a trustworthy e-gov environment.**
**eAuthentication initiative managed by GSA will organize authentication work for our critical lines of business**