In a few years the queues at the counters for bureaucratic issues will be just a bad memory. In 2008 the European Union invested 10 million euros for the STORK project, an infrastructure capable of doing dialogue the databases of the European PAs and to create automatic electronic identification systems. Today Stork is a reality and a vast range of users benefit from it who, through Stork, can overcome the bureaucratic aspects linked to the certifications which are thus acquired directly from the certifying body.
And now it's time to improve the offer. The Stork 2.0 upgrade of the project has the ambitious goal of favoring business-oriented operations in particular, creating a network of contacts that allows you to spend your professionalism at a European level, without having to personally provide the relative documentation, but taking advantage of the interaction and cooperation between the public subjects concerned.
The project, launched in April 2012, involves 58 partners, is financed with approximately 9 million euros and will end in March 2015. Among the 19 countries taking part there is also Italy which will participate in 4 pilot services. ABI Lab will follow the banking pilot projects in relation to the remote user identification and authentication phases; CSI Piedmont and InfoCamere business services (eBusiness) will follow; Lombardy Informatics those related to electronic health (eHealth) while the Polytechnic of Turin takes part in the Stork 2.0 Project for eLearning services (including distance learning and exchange of academic qualifications), as well as as a representative of the Italian consortium for system architecture. In the end Agency for Digital Italy (ex DigitPA) will take care of the regulatory aspects of electronic identity.
