Your London card and what this means for authorities

Steve Pennant

London Connects Chief Executive

29 Jan 2007

London Connects strategy

• Mirrors national transforming government strategy– Services for Londoners– Shared Effectiveness– London’s Future

• Collaborative use and understanding of technology to improve services or reduce costs

Original programme and latest update always on www.londonconnects.gov.uk/about_us.cfm

London Connects Strategy channels and technologies

London channels

• Internet (all available through Your London)– Borough– TfL, Police, GLA, Fire, London Development Agency– Voluntary Groups

• Call centres:– Borough– TfL– Police

• Face to face

All requiring authentication at some stage

National Context – Varney review

• “…providing joined up services designed around the needs of the citizen or business will yield efficiency savings by reducing duplication across the public sector. This ought to be the public service aspiration for Government”.

• action for the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review:– “take forward proposals to develop a cross-government

identity management system to enable greater personalisation of services and to reduce duplication across government, building on a proof of concept project to share data between HM Revenue and Customs, DWP and 12 local authorities;

• DWP to lead Directgov

National Context – Government Connect

• GC Register...works with Government Gateway to authenticate citizens online. This will allow local authorities to be confident the people and organisations they communicate with are who they say they are.

• An online mechanism but GC will not be producing smart cards – again DWP a key player

National ContextID Cards

Types of organisations the Home Office expect to use ID cards:

– banks and building societies – Royal Mail and other delivery and

courier services – libraries and video/DVD rental

companies – mobile and fixed line phone

companies and service providers – travel agencies and airlines – universities and colleges of higher

education – retailers of all kinds, including

internet-based companies – property rental companies – vehicle rental companies.

London Context - 2012

Why pan-London approach?

• Convenience for customers

• Economies of scale for authorities

• Economies of interoperability

• Common approach to marketing to excluded groups

Borough brand

Why

Your

London?

Your London Card SchemePossible Federated Approach

= borough

Libraries

Transport Leisure

Payment ID (e.g. council tax)

Schools

Diagram shows how locally branded card schemes could have multiple applications with common standards and some pan-London functionality

Culture

London Smartcard Executive Group (LSEG)

Includes GLA Needs LondonCentralPartnershiprep

Work to date

• Roadmap & draft governance published (thanks to Mick Davies)

• Joint procurement of 50,000 Mifare 4K cards (as recommended by TfL in 2004)

• Kingston have ordered 10,000, another 25,000 in the pipeline

• Joint work on APACS UK Payments Association and Proof of Age Scheme (PASS)

• Liaison with TfL and Transys

Opportunities

Libraries – already contactless in Newham, Croydon, Lewisham and planned in others

Leisure – workshop sponsoredby GladstoneSchools

Staff authentication

see workshopsYour ideas

Next steps

• Online survey• Directions from London Smartcard Exec

Group• Deliverables in 07/08 plan:

– Delivery of cards to early adopters– Sign up to a federated approach– Step by step plan with focus on groups eg

over 60s, secondary pupils– review following your ideas today

Get involved – see Nick or Greg on the London Connects stand