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New Zealand proves that great things often come from small countries as it joins the ranks of e-government SAML 2.0 deployers with its wide-ranging all-of-government authentication program. This innovative program is committed to providing shared services based on the principles of federated user-centric Identity Management—security, privacy and user control—and promises to transform how government relates to citizens and business. “Our goal is to raise the level of citizen participation and engagement with government via the online channel,” said Colin Wallis, the Authentication Standards Programme Manager at the State Services Commission, the agency in charge of New Zealand’s e-government projects. “Liberty Alliance has been instrumental in helping us achieve that goal.”

This overview enumerates the major features of Liberty Web Services, a framework for identity-based services that provides added value for identity, security, and privacy above and beyond basic web services, and thereby makes identity data portable across domains.