Innovative, Secure and Interoperable E/M-Governmental Invoicing
Athanasios Karantjias, Spyridon Papastergiou, Despina Polemi · 2007
Research into initiatives worldwide shows that although some of the legal and organizational barriers for the adoption of new technologies in e/m-government have been lifted, there are still not many implementations of actual e/m-government services that have been designed based on a common and systematic approach. The most prevailing requirements for e/m-government services, interoperability and security, pose major challenges to e/m-government architects and it is now being slowly understood that Web Services in combination with PKIs may provide the necessary solutions. In this context, this paper presents an innovative e/m-government service based on these technologies, focusing basically on their security and interoperability aspects. The goal of the paper is to demonstrate the service's specifications and use cases so that it may act as example for further research and development.