Informal settlement as a global urban phenomenon encounters different social, physical and economic shortcomings. These fabrics especially in cities of the global south experience an escalating gap with developed urban areas. In this regard, faltering economy plays a major contribution in continuity of poverty and exclusion. In Iran, Empowerment plan could not lead to favorable and stable resul...

MyData is a framework and model for a human-centric approach for managing and processing personal information in the context of online services. The MyData approach is based on the right of individuals to access all data collected about them in public and commercial records. The core principle driving the MyData effort is that individuals should be in control of their own data. The MyData appro...

Federated Identity Management (FIdM) systems are at the heart of any on-line service in a public, private or hybrid autonomous cooperating system. This paper reviews and compares several existing approaches for building FIdM systems in the specific sector of e-Government by showing identity management schemes employed by several countries representatives of different realities by size, geograph...

Nowadays, many websites allow or require users to use their e-mail addresses either as identity or for other purposes. Although username-based identity problems resulting from users’ behaviours have been a research focus for quite some time, the serious issues of using e-mail address as identity and the associated online behaviours of users have not been well investigated. In this paper, we dis...

trust services, accountability, identity, B2B, e-commerce To be successful, e-commerce solutions need to properly address accountability issues. Accountability is fundamental to business, and identity is fundamental to accountability. This paper analyses the role identity services play in supporting business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. There are many good reasons for outsourcing identity mana...

This paper presents a novel architecture for digital identity management. The proposed architecture is highly secure and scales seamlessly across organizational boundaries, while at the same time protecting the privacy interests of individuals and organizations. To achieve these properties, the architecture heavily relies on Digital Credentials, a cryptographic authentication technology specifi...