What is the Government's strategy for conducting Privacy Impact Assessments on the many and varied platforms that will be provided for e-citizen participation in Open Government initiatives?

1) Do you assume individuals will assert their own identity or will it be done by a third party?
2) If a third party, who do you believe will play that role?
3) What will be their "standard of care" responsibility be to relying parties?
4)How will they package their identity assertions, i.e. form factor?
5) How will you manage transient trust (cross domain)?

Are there ways Digital Identity systems employed by private enterprise be leveraged to provide e-government authentication and authorization services.

How can Digital Identity be leveraged to effectively enable citizen/government interaction without using a National ID card system?

Last item of six or so major bullets:
Identity management is absolutely fundamental. However, it can be effectively implemented and used only if the systems in which it is embedded are trustworthy and operationally sound. Thus, future efforts in identity management must be carried out in the context of efforts to strengthen our information infrastructures.

Context:
Assume identity and health information will converge toward a secure and portable stored value medium such as smart card or mobile handset.

Question:
How to ensure integrity of trusted authoritative source(s) in a massively distributed ecosystem?

When health care providers update records how are rights for updates and reads determined to be trusted and authentic?

Given your intention to invest in the modernization of America's Health IT infrastructure and your own historic use of Web technologies for community development, I assume you are supportive of "eGovernement", BUT who will you turn to for implementation? Is there someone close enough to you who is also close enough to the issues of Digital Identity, open standards, interoperability, assurance frameworks, etc. to enable you to "go where no administration has gone before" with open eGovernment?

How can static Digital Identity attributes (e.g. name, age) be combined or blended with contextual attributes (e.g. location, current interest) to enrich citizen/government interaction without compromising confidential information?

New IdM technologies/concepts will be needed to accomplish tech goals while also respecting the public trust/privacy
- The need is not likely to be addressed through the normal process of commercial product evolution
- A broad, foundationally-oriented research effort is required; it should range from theoretical work to pragmatic experimental studies
- The outcomes might help the gov't develop appropriate standards; today, lacking needed technologies, stds will be premature and may be flawed