RISER, new e-ten project

The Project of the Month (May 2005)in e-ten's web is RISER (Registry Information Service on European Residents)that is a central web-service for collecting inquiries, distributing them to the responsible authorities and delivering the results to the customer.

RISER provides convincing economic benefits to its customers:

Uniform and easy-to-use access to the service in different languages
Faster processing of the required data than the traditional paper based processing
Improved quality of public service including standardised payment procedures

The objective of the Registry Information Service on European Residents is to create a Trans-European eGovernment service offering access to official registry information services to companies and citizens. The service communicates with customers and data suppliers via a secure internet infrastructure based on open standards. The service offers a single point of access to population registers in the EU Member States of the European Union via the internet and complies with the national regulations concerning civil registration, privacy and data security.

The RISER-Consortium led by the IT-service provider PSI comprises the following authorities and companies from Austria, Poland, Ireland and Germany:

PSI Aktiengesellschaft für Produkte und Systeme der Informationstechnologie (co-ordinator)Germany

ARAM sp.z o.o Poland

Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS Germany

Zentrum für Verwaltungsforschung Austria

Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland

Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein Germany

Landeseinwohneramt Berlin Germany

Security and data protection

The issues of data security and IT security are of utmost importance to RISER. Its core business is requesting and delivering person-related data, which may only be inspected and used in accordance with applicable national legal regulations. RISER complies with these legal regulations; on the one hand, by adhering to all legal requirements with respect to the way RISER itself processes transactions, and, on the other hand, by protecting the process from external, unauthorised access by third parties.

There is a Privacy and Data Security Report available