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As a Belgian having worked in Denmark, my access to Danish e-government services through NemID was revoked pretty soon after I left the country.

This was quite a frustrating experience. Some time after leaving the country I got e-mails saying that SKAT, the local tax authority, had documents/messages for me to read on the secure message platform eBoks.

However, try as I might, I was unable to convince anyone to restore access since I was no longer a resident. I agonized quite a bit over this since I dreaded inadvertently being a fraud.

It would have saved me a lot of grief if the Danish e-gov services would have federated with Belgian and other EU identity services.

Edit: Forgot to say this is something The Netherlands already does pretty well. Dutch e-gov services, or at least those from Belastingdienst federate with many European idenity service providers including Belgium. Great for cross border workers.

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jeroenhd|4 years ago

The various authentication services are already supposed to integrate through EIDAS but I don't know how well that works yet. I'm seeing the button to use it on more and more government login pages so I think it's getting picked up more.

As far as I know, the Dutch government has been pretty slow in their EIDAS implementation, even (nearly?) missing some deadlines, maybe the Belgian government has a similar problem?

NicoJuicy|4 years ago

In Belgium, we have several different regions ( Flemish, Brussels and Wallonia)

For some integrations with Wallonia, we are currently forced to use the federal integration, since their implementation hasn't even started yet :(

You are correct about eidas, it seems to be handled by the federal government currently, but there's not much documentation on it ( Belgium) and i have seen some applications integrating that way. So i suppose the issue is documentation and discoverability.

And the partial conflict of interest with itsme

wdb|4 years ago

Problem with e-gov services is actually getting your DigiD account. I have been trying for many years without luck and still don't have it