Creating a trusted computing environment is perhaps more important in the public sector than anywhere else, due to the unique role that government plays in human society. Across Australia and around the world, HP works closely with governments, helping them to rise to the challenges involved with providing efficient and transparent services to their citizens. The following selection of global case studies highlight just some of this work.
Free and open access to new ideas and innovative solutions is the hallmark of higher learning. When this approach extends to the departmental IT level, however, the resulting mix of eclectic computer systems and home-grown software can make access management for thousands of users a daunting challenge.
This case study shows how the HP and University of Colorado at Boulder rose to this challenge, helping it to meet US federal regulations for data and privacy security for student information under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
In a drive to increase efficiency in the delivery of government services and to make citizen-to-government interaction more “user friendly,” the Dutch government reorganised the Social Security Departments and the way they cooperate.
The primary objective was to provide a “one stop shop” for citizens in relation to their employment status and opportunities, and associated benefits and entitlements. Since this “one stop shop” can only function if all relevant information is available wherever necessary, the government mandated BKWI — one of its departments — to implement a system that would enable all relevant public sector employees to strategically share data from their individual information databases. This case study tells how BKWI and HP made it happen.
The Republic of Bulgaria is one of several Eastern European countries to have recently joined the European Union (EU). As a prerequisite for integration, a range of political, economic and other criteria had to be satisfied. One was the need to issue citizens with secure identity documents that support automated data processing.
Bulgarian nationals now have top-level identity documents that enable them to travel to most European countries without visas. This case study shows how the Ministry for the Interior and HP brought this aspiration to life.
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