Government Service Bus

The GSB (Government Service Bus) is intended to become the central platform of integration and services for the provision of government electronic services and transactions, and a provider of common value-add Shared Services which will be used by all connected entities and government agencies. i.e. Identity management, e – Payment and core data exchange between government entities. Figure 1 shows the role of the GSB as an integration enabler to implement government e – services.

Figure 1: GSB role in the e – government services infrastructure.

The government service bus project is considered among the most critical and high – impact projects within YESSER projects portfolio for 2007.

GSB major components:

The GSB project has been divided into two phases, based on the (6) pilot services requirements (category 1) and category 2 (20 services’ requirements) as identified in the e – Government national action plan.

Phase 1 encompasses the following layers:

Phase 1 of the solution is sought for as a quick win phase, enabling the provision of 6 e-Services from 4 governmental agencies to use a common infrastructure for integration, sharing of data and the use of centralized shared services. It encompasses the following layers:

• Integration & Messaging Layer
• Messaging & Queuing
• Service Registry
• Transaction Management
• Switching & Routing
• Service Provision and Delivery Gateways
• e-Gov Adapters
• Data Management Layer
• Shared Data Service
• Database Access Service
• Data Schema Validation
• Security Layer
• Authentication and Single Sign-On
• Authorization
• Identity Verification
• Non-Repudiation
• User Management
• Core Services Layer
• Payment Gateway
• Logging Engine
• Interaction Layer
• Secure Management Site
• Notification Engine
• Email Gateway
• UI Syndication
• Auditing & Reporting
• Systems Management

Phase 2 encompasses the following components:

• Integration & Messaging Layer
• Workflow & Choreography
• Orchestration
• Protocol Transformation
• Quality of Service Management
• Event Management
• Data Management Layer
• Data Transformation
• File System Access
• Enterprise Search Engine
• Data Enrichment
• Security Layer
• PKI Integration
• Encryption and Signing
• Core Services Layer
• Service Level Management
• Interaction Layer
• SMS Gateway
• IVR Gateway
• Postal Service Management
• Development & Publishing Toolkit

Government Service Bus for eGovernment Transactions