During this period we were in the final stage development of most of the modules and also we participated in a competition out of the university. We applied for the World Summit Award 2009 under the e-Business/e-Governance category. We got great support from our project supervisor Dr. Chandana Gamage in submiting the application form. We had to do a presentation on Project eID for the WSA 2009 National Pre-Selection at ICTA Sri Lanka on Tuensay, December 23, 2008. It was a successful presentation on our part where we were able to get external feedback from the panel which judjed. We were able to answer all questions asked at us we are certain that we did our best job. Now its up to the selection panel to select us or not, but this has been a good experience for us.

More about our involvement in WSA 2009 is documented in this blog here: http://blog.project-eid.org/tag/world-summit-award-2009/

We had a meeting with our project supervisor on the 24th December where we discussed about the presentation for WSA 2009 and also about the research papers and the project progress. Also I completed the Offline Application during this time period and also started work on the card creation application, which is one an other utility application in Project eID.

R13: A Presentation Week is a post from: Project eID Blog

We presented our project to ICTA officials on 23rd December 2008 for the pre-selection competition for World Summit Award(WSA). We were doing initial preparations during the starting week of this period. We had a meeting with our supervisor prior to the presentation and discussed with him regarding the project progress and suggestions for the ICTA presentation. We all the group members attended and they were inspired by our ideas and the work done. After the succesful completion of the presentation, we had a meeting with our supervisor the very next day(24th December 2008) and updated him with the details.

Technically I was working on the workstation application which connects with CAD (Card Acceptance Device) and communicate with the Smart card via APDU commands. This application was partially finished and later couldn’t be proceeded until the Java card arrival. This was due to the reason that some of the functionalities can not be tested without the physical devices. The JCWDE and CREF simulators were useful for applet development and testing but for the workstation application no simulation was possible.

R13: WSA, CAD, APDU and some more is a post from: Project eID Blog

During this two week period we were in the final stage development and also we had to participate in a competition out of the university and present our project. We had the national level selection presentation for the World Summit Award 2009 under the e-Business/e-Governance category at ICTA Sri Lanka on Tuesday, December 23, 2008. It was a successful presentation on our part where we were able to get external feedback from the panel which judged.

There after we had a formal meeting with our project supervisor on the 24th December where we discussed about the presentation for WSA 2009. And also we discussed about the research papers.

Meanwhile we had started to integrate the project components together which were developed by individuals. I had to work in the Malalasena’s web services to integrate with the client side application. We had many integration problem and we both tried to manage to integration successful.

Problems We had during the integration :

1. String sensitive, XML tags has automatically converted to lower case, we first we had bad signing problem.
2. Problems to load the external libraries in the eID client application. Then I used the class loader to load all external libraries.
3. Signing of the XML string, it was a problem due to the Java security class in the client side.

I succeeded on solving these problems with several testing.

R13: Presentation & Integration is a post from: Project eID Blog

During last two weeks we started to integrate the project components together. So in the case of eID web service is secured in a manner that it can be only invoked by the eID Browser Plug-in created by Shayanthan. Hence, in last week we start to work together and integrate the web service and the web browser plug-in. That was little bit difficult task due to web browser plug-in was very sensitive to the string and case lost of matters. However finally we figure out the problem and solve that and successfully integrate the web service with the browser plug-in.

After some time we had another problem regard the web service and web browser integration, due to smart card can’t handle long string and we had a problem with signing and encrypting the XML policy string in the client side. So we decides sing the XML policy string’s hash value. So in the web service side also I have to change the bossiness logic that accepts the signature of hash value of policy string rather than signature of the policy string.

After that I concerned about improving web service quality by making that more dynamic. Still I’m working on that and expecting to move development of other web service after finish the eID authenticating web service. Then I start to writing of the final report and the research report of the eID system. So we had a group meeting regards the final report and the research paper. Finally we came up with a appropriate outline for those reports.

We also applied for the world summit award 2009 under e-Business/ e-government category. We had the national level pre-selections at ICTA Sri Lanka on Tuesday, December 23, 2008. We did the presentation in very satisfactory way and we are waiting for the results.

R13: WS Integration is a post from: Project eID Blog

This presentation is scheduled at 5.20pm tomorrow (Tuensay, December 23, 2008) at ICTA, Colombo 5. All four members of our project team will be participating in this and we might also do a short demonstration of our project after the presentaion. Updates will be posted on this blog.

Presenting Project eID at ICTA for WSA Competition Selection is a post from: Project eID Blog

We are eargaly waiting to hear from ICTA furthue, may be for a demonstration or presentaion or even the results.

WSA 2009 Application Accepted is a post from: Project eID Blog

We have sent a nomination for “Project eID” to the WSA 2009 national pre-selection under the e-Business & Commerce category. We were greatly assisted by our project supervisor in this process.

World Summit Award 2009

The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global initiative for selecting and promoting the world’s best e-content and applications and thereby contributing towards bridging the Digital Divide and narrowing the Content Gap. WSA works to strengthen entrepreneurship within content industries and to bring about economic and cultural development through the creative use of ICTs. For More information visit http://wsa.nenasala.lk

We are expecting some positive results out of this, may be we have a chance to make a change and win something. Lets hope for the best.

Participating in World Summit Award 2009 National Pre – Selection is a post from: Project eID Blog