However, the challenges that need to be overcome in running a DCE should not be underestimated, as they are huge! I truly hope that this will not become another bloated white elephant of a project, with the same old faces (you know, the big, old IT / telecoms “preferred suppliers”) taking over this potentially global showcase, otherwise it will just end up as an expensive folly that follows other national IT fiascos (disclaimer: my firm digitalle has developed a patent pending authentication platform for managing access to premium/paid or restricted resources delivered over the web/mobile and/or stored /served drom the “cloud”), and I feel this should be used as an opportunity to showcase to the world how the UK startup community can generate world class solutions to really big problems, and maybe even show our US based cousins some new technology.

Thanks, Rupert Hurley, CEO, digitalle Limited, a UK based start up doing some ground breaking work in the field of real time dynamic authentication.