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The offices would serve the needs of persons in those regions wanting to apply for biometric passports, bringing to an end the era where, would-be applicants had to come all the way to the national capital, Accra, to have their applications processed.

The Minister of Foreign, Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni, who was personally present at the Kumasi inauguration said, given the enormous interest shown by the Ghanaian public since the new system was introduced, they were compelled to speed up the decentralization of the system.

The Biometric Registration is geared towards the collation of an accurate data on about 730,000 government CAP 30 pensioners and public sector employees on the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) pensioners’ payroll.

This is to help clean, update and eliminate all ghost names from the payroll of pensioners in the country.

Home secretary Theresa May has promised to rush through legislation that will "consign identity cards and the intrusive ID card scheme to history within 100 days".

However, ID cards for non-British citizens will remain in place. There are 215,000 such cards in circulation, and these were distributed to immigrants with a right to remain in the country as opposed to asylum seekers.

The biometric passport project is a joint undertaking between a local company, Information Technology Protective Security Service (ITPSS), and a German company Giesecke & Devrient (G&D).

New changes to the Law for Bulgarian Identity Documents (LBID) are foreseeing the integration of Electronic Information Carriers(ENI) into ID Cards and international passports.

A group of experts on IDs is currently discussing the successful practices in other EU-countries on implementing such technology. This working group has already approved materials fit for the production of the new ID-Cards that will be available starting January 1st, 2019. The thematic design of BIDs will remain the same - focused on the history of Bulgaria and the country's cultural heritage.

Views across the board said voters should be biometrically enrolled for the country’s next elections, due late this year or early next year.

Biometric voter registration has software that captures citizens’ data, including fingerprints and a digital photograph, directly in the field. In Zimbabwe far placed villagers in remote areas usually travel long distances just to register to vote. At times many people miss out on registering because of the high costs involved in travelling.

That's about all I am going to learn for now about the grizzled-looking man before me -- and getting that out of him takes a bit of work as he answers most questions with, "Who wants to know?"

So it's with little surprise that I find Ernie's not so sure about a plan by the provincial government to issue identification cards to people like him, whose weather-beaten backpacks hold most of their worldly possessions and home is a mat at one of the city's shelters.

The current system, in which customs and/or immigration officials manually process passengers at borders, calls for significant resources and infrastructure and is generally time consuming for passengers and border authorities. Passengers may be interviewed or examined, and their baggage and travel documentation is inspected.

Public opinion is that this current system of processing travelers tends to be cumbersome and inefficient, and it further supports the growing need to accurately identify travelers in a more cost effective, efficient manner for security and border control purposes.

As well as classifying the population by gender, religion, occupation and education, the purpose of this latest census was also to photograph and fingerprint all adults over the age of 15 years to create a biometric database of the population. This database will be used to issue new national identity cards and is welcomed by many poor families, who believe these documents will improve the ease and reliability of receiving state benefits.

The Confederation's new electronic identity (e-ID) will enable users to identify themselves digitally in a secure, fast and uncomplicated way. At its meeting on 22 November 2023, the Federal Council adopted the dispatch on the new Federal Act on Electronic Identity Credentials and Other Electronic Credentials (E-ID Act). The e-ID will be issued by the Confederation, will guarantee the greatest possible protection of personal data, and its use will be free of charge and voluntary. The Federal Council is proposing that the infrastructure required to operate the e-ID can also be used by cantonal and communal authorities and by private individuals and entities to issue electronic credentials.

Die Rollenteilung zwischen Staat und Privaten behält der Bundesrat in seiner Botschaft zum Gesetz über die elektronischen Identifizierungsdienste. Dafür stärkt er den Datenschutz und die Rolle des Bundes.

Mehr Sicherheit und mehr Benutzerfreundlichkeit soll die elektronische Identität bringen, so die Hoffnung des Bundesrats. Die Nutzer einer solchen E-ID sollen bei Online-Shopping oder E-Government-Angeboten belegen können, dass sie eine bestimmte Person sind – und das mit einem einzigen Log-in.

The new biometric residence permits, used with a passport, give the holder free travel without a visa, throughout the Schengen area.

The credit card size documents contain a biometric chip with data that will be stored for five years by the canton that issues it.

Citizen’s Identification Numbers, issued by public security bureaux, will be used as the unique and lifetime social welfare identifier across the nation.

At the moment, social security cards are issued by provincial-level governments using different specifications and identifiers. In a highly mobile society where hundreds of millions of people move across provincial borders for employment, transfer of social security benefits between localities has been a headache for both insured citizens and the authorities. As a result, many migrant workers living in the economically advanced Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta are not enjoying the social welfare benefits they are entitled to.

China is working towards a unified state population database using identification numbers issued by the public security system as the unique identifiers, according to Zhou Yongkang, Secretary of the Politics & Law Committee of Chinese Communist Party Central Committee.

Politics & Law Committee is the country’s supreme body responsible for social and public security issues in the country.

However, he told legislators today the Government has no timetable yet for implementing an e-purse option, after considering the Monetary Authority's views and the market situation.

The medical records of eight million patients are already being accessed electronically by 30,000 health-care workers via the Hospital Authority network.

Around 69,000 patients are electronically linked with 1,600 private doctors.

But will city make the same mistakes it did in similar plan 17 years ago?

The government’s HK$100 million plan to issue “electronic identification” for Hong Kong residents to allow easier access to online public and commercial services parallels a similar plan unveiled 17 years ago that never took off as hoped.

As an important part of Shanghai's smart city campaign, e-government has gained impressive development in recent years. A critical but unknown-to-many facility takes major credit: the online ID authentication system, Wenhui Daily reported Sunday. Cui Jiuqiang, vice general manager of Shanghai Electronic Certificate Authority Center Co, led the research and development of the system. As an experienced expert, Cui said that Shanghai has witnessed the prime days of this system over the past five years.