gCitizen: A Grid Middleware for a Transparent Management of the Information about Citizens

Abstract

This paper proposes the Grid technology as an integration method of information, existing procedures and resources in the Public Administration. The exposed work supposes, from the point of view of the electronic government, an advance of future trends by means of the use of Grid technology. On the other hand, from the perspective of Grid technology, the electronic government opens a non-evident field of application for this emergent paradigm of distributed computing. The gCitizen project is based on the GT4 components and WSRF implementation, including new protocols and services which complete the middleware with the specific features needed in the eGovernment frameworks.