The Austrian State Printing House (OeSD) has outlined the plans behind a mobile identity app it is developing that aims to help governments move credentials from physical documents to the smartphone.Speaking to Bloomberg, senior staff described how the firm's "My Identity App" can handle all types of ID, adding that if it sells during the coming year, that the system could go into operation in 2017."Everything's moving to the smartphone," Lukas Praml, the executive director of OeSD in charge of innovation, said in an interview with Bloomberg. "There's only one problem: personal identification and driver's licenses aren't even in the pipeline, nowhere."The latter comment seems to clash with the ongoing development in Iowa and other US states of a mobile driving licence app, in a project involving MorphoTrust.A forerunner in ePassport development, the newspaper notes that OeSD started developing mobile applications three to four years ago, and that writing code is now an ever-bigger part of its business.
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