Moscow-based corporations granted unified metropolis identifier – Cyber Tech

Moscow’s Division of Data Know-how has granted companies entry to the unified metropolis identifier referred to as Mos.ID.

The identifier simplifies person entry to on-line accounts within the metropolis’s web companies, enabling Muscovites to make use of a wider vary of on-line companies, from fee of utility and phone payments to web banking, with out worrying concerning the safety of their private information or having to recollect quite a few passwords.

“The brand new system will simplify life within the digital area, assist to counter fraud and turn out to be a single level of entry into a whole lot of web companies for residents. In different phrases, it is going to put off the necessity to memorize quite a few passwords for numerous accounts,” stated Denis Zhikharev, head of initiatives at DIT.

DIT has been quickly growing and actively rising for the previous 5 years. Lately, it has created over a thousand techniques and companies, focusing on to launch round 300 new initiatives yearly. At the moment, it has digitalized over 166 state companies, greater than another area of Russia.

Verifiable and up-to-date private information

The benefit of this entry system is that the information saved in it are all the time updated.

Private information entered when registering on the town portal are checked in authorities information bases, whereas person id is verified in a multi-functional centre or by means of binding with a confirmed state companies account and comprises quite a lot of verified particulars (social media verify solely the person’s phone quantity and electronic mail deal with).

Consequently, every person can have just one genuine account and firms can supply their companies on-line (for instance, present the outcomes of medical checks carried out in personal clinics or statements from credit score reference businesses, with no extra affirmation of id).

With the person’s consent, verification of knowledge (full identify, passport information, deal with, age and so forth.) will develop alternatives for the supply of recent on-line companies, corresponding to authentication in automobile sharing companies and advert placement companies, distant schooling, with web suppliers or credit score reference businesses, with no extra ID affirmation process.

A excessive stage of safety of customers’ private information is ensured through the use of two-factor authentication with an anti-hammering operate. The system has been examined by the Federal Service for Technical and Export Management to make sure safety of the Private Information Data System.

First adopters

One of many first firms to start utilizing the unified identifier is the Moscow Metropolis Phone Community, which offers broadband web entry, digital TV, cell and landline phone, CCTV, intruder alarm and different companies in Moscow and Moscow Area. As well as, the system is now stay on the web site of the Increased Faculty of Economics – one among Russia’s main greater instructional establishments and is at present being built-in with greater than 10 different initiatives.

“Mos.ru is the official portal of the mayor and authorities of Moscow. The primary purpose of the portal is to create a unified internet area for the town, offering Muscovites with a single useful resource the place they’ll discover all the town platforms and on-line companies they want,” stated Zhikharev.

He added: “It additionally offers entry to state companies in digital type, directions on what to do in numerous life conditions, information concerning the metropolis, your district or neighbourhood, and details about upcoming occasions. The mos.ru portal offers entry to greater than 330 companies and has over 8.2 million registered particular person customers and greater than 38,500 company customers.”

The companies part was created on the bases of probably the most generally occurring search requests. It brings collectively step-by-step directions on what to do in 330 completely different life conditions, corresponding to making an appointment with a physician, registering a automobile, paying for parking or discovering an impounded automobile. For comfort, the content material is sorted by reputation in additional than 14 classes (security, courtyard, paperwork, home, well being, schooling, work, household, sport, tradition, leisure, transport, ecology and others). The What’s On part comprises details about all metropolis celebrations, festivals, festivals, campaigns, grasp courses, exhibitions, reveals and sporting occasions. Customers can apply filters to configure the service to their very own pursuits by deciding on, for instance, solely free occasions or occasions in their very own district.

In the meantime, the DIT of Moscow has additionally constructed 178 portals, together with the official Mayor and Authorities of Moscow web-site “mos.ru”​. Moreover, DIT has created techniques that cowl over 60 industries, together with:

• Digital queue for Civil registry workplace;
• Association of distant medical appointments;
• Private digital medical data;
• Youngsters task to kindergartens/colleges/extracurricular actions;
• Offering colleges with innovative technological gear;
• Acquiring references, enquiries and companies remotely;
• Quite a few initiatives in housing and public facilities, ranging from telemetrics and energetics to the opportunity of submitting water utilization info.