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Building Trusted National Identity Management Systems

Authors:
Joseph Kwame Adjei
Henning Olesen

Keywords: Identity Management; PCT Curve; Privacy Concern; Trust; Trusted Identities.

Abstract:
This paper discusses the effect of trust and informa-tion privacy concerns on citizens’ attitude towards national identity management systems. We introduce the privacy-concerns-trust model, which shows the role of trust in mediat-ing and moderating citizens’ attitude towards identity man-agement systems. We adopted a qualitative research approach in our analysis of data that was gathered through a series of interviews and a stakeholder workshop in Ghana. Our findings indicate that, beyond the threshold level of trust, societal information privacy concern is low; hence, trust is high, thereby encouraging further institutional collaboration and acceptance of citizens’ informational self-determination.

Pages: 19 to 26

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-232-5

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012