The GSMA European Mobile Connect Bootcamp has held on the 8th of May. It has a closed meeting, with the 6 major European operators and it aimed to discuss and exchange knowledge between operators under the Identity Management and Authentication in mobile scenarios theme.
The Mobile Connect initiative framed in the Personal Data GSMA group, intends to work an architecture and business model so that operators can provide other providers authentication functionality. This work is being supplied by several different solutions that operators have being implementing all around the world.
PT Inovação e Sistemas attended the meeting and presented its Mobile Authentication pilot which has developed in a partnership with the Administrative Modernization Agency (Agência para a Modernização Administrativa – AMA). This pilot enables all citizens to seamless and secure access to public administration portals using their operator SIM card as an authentication token.
PT Inovação e Sistemas has able to demonstrate with this pilot its Innovation capability in the Mobile Identity Management area. This is something that few other European operators have achieved.