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SmartCard

  • Bahrain: New multi-purpose ID card on the way

    A MULTI-PURPOSE identity card is expected to be introduced in Bahrain by the start of next year. The smart card will carry details such as passport, driving licence, CPR card, health records, education and fingerprints.

  • Bahrain: New Smart Card awareness push

    An awareness campaign to educate the public on the new Smart Card is to be launched next week. The Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) will focus the campaign on major public places and shopping malls.

    It will get underway at Seef Mall next week, according to CIO president Shaikh Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa.

    "Our team will demonstrate to the public how the new ID card is produced," he told the GDN.

  • Bahrain: Smart Cards will be used at airport soon

    Smart Cards will be used at Bahrain International Airport soon, Cabinet Affairs Minister Shaikh Ahmed bin Atiyatallah Al Khalifa has announced.

    "Bahrainis will be able to travel to the UAE, Oman and Qatar using the card," he said, noting that arrangements for travelling with the smart card to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will be completed soon.

  • Bahrain: Trial issue of 'Smart ID Card' to begin early next year

    Bahrain will begin a trial issue of a revolutionary national 'smart' ID card by the first quarter next year, according to a senior official, writes Shereen Bushehri.

    "The actual issue will begin by the end of 2005 and will include all personal information including bank records and fingerprints," said a spokesperson at the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO).

  • Bahrein: Smart move over e-cards

    Bahrain's new smart card got the final green light yesterday, as the Cabinet approved the law stipulating its introduction.

    It will eventually replace the old CPR card and will carry all the data people need to use the country's public services.

  • Barbados: Cutting Edge Technology

    WITH the help of a microchip, Barbadians could one day be carrying all of their personal information, from birth certificate to an electronic fingerprint, on a single plastic card.

    Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Senator John Williams, made this revelation as he described the capabilities of the “single card initiative” at the opening ceremony of the Fifth Caribbean Ministerial Consultation on Regional Co-operation for E-Government Capacity Building, at the Fairmont Glitter Bay, yesterday.

  • BD: 96.2m smart NIDs to be disbursed by June 2016

    The Election Commission (EC) will hand over smart National Identity (NID) cards to 96.2 million voters by June next year.

    "We are working with an objective of giving smartcards to voters on the Independence Day on March 26 (2016). If we fail, we will at least start distribution of smartcards on that day by handing over symbolic cards," Secretary of EC Secretariat M Sirajul Islam told BSS.

    EC earlier signed a contract with a French company for manufacturing and distributing nine crore smartcards.

  • Belgien startet Pilotversuch mit Java-basierendem Personalausweis

    Die belgische Regierung hat in elf Städten des Landes einen Pilotversuch gestartet, bei dem den Bürgern Electronic Indentification Cards (EIDs) ausgegeben werden.

  • Belgien stellt Java-basierenden Personalausweis vor

    Die belgische Regierung hat in elf Städten erste so genannte EIDs (Electronic Identification Cards) an Bürger ausgegeben. Die Personalausweise im Format einer Kreditkarte basieren auf der Java-Technologie von Sun und enthalten die gleichen Informationen wie die bislang verwendeten Kennkarten.

  • Belgium gets smart about identity

    The Belgian government hopes that within five years every citizen will be carrying a new electronic identity card. But will the new 'smart' IDs prove to be the citizen’s friend or Big Brother’s little helper?

  • Belgium introducing Java-based ID cards

    Belgium has begun introducing the country's first electronic identification cards.

    The Belgium government issued Java-based cards to residents in 11 cities last week, with the goal of eventually providing every Belgian resident over 12 years old with an electronic identification (EID) card, Sun Microsystems Inc. said in a statement Thursday.

  • Belgium: Java Card Underpins Belgian ID Scheme

    Belgium is about to embark on one of the largest roll-outs of Java-enabled identity cards with plans for every Belgian resident over 12 years old to be issued with a personal ID card based on Java Card technology.

  • Berührungsloses Chipkartensystem für sichere Zugriffskontrolle

    Philips präsentiert Web-liniking Technologie

    Philips hat heute, Montag, in Hamburg seine berührungslose Web-linking-Technologie vorgestellt, die eine drahtlose Internet-Zugangskontrolle ermöglicht. "Bei dieser innovativen Technologie handelt es sich um ein hochsicheres und personalisiertes Verfahren, das den Zugang zu Informationen einfach und komfortabel macht", erklärt Kai Grassie, Vice President Innovation and Technology von Philips Semiconductors, bei der Vorstellung in Hamburg.

  • BH: Eskan Bank launches eServices package

    In cooperation with Bahrain’s eGovernment Authority, Eskan Bank has launched a package of services allowing all its clients to review and perform transactions easily.

    Eskan Bank provides nine banking eservices to its clients on Bahrain.bh that include account summary, transactions history, housing loan, loan overdue, returned cheques, official statements, alternative payer, repayment calculator and beneficiary information.

  • Biometric smartcards to streamline pension disbursement in Pakistan

    Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to issue biometric smart cards to pensioners, enabling them to withdraw pensions from banks and post offices.

    Zardari believes that pension disbursement through NADRA’s smart Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) will not only streamline the pension disbursement system but would also provide a great comfort to pensioners, as currently these pensioners have to queue for days before receiving payments. The President’s remarks came while chairing a briefing on pension disbursement through smart CNIC, attended by many ministers and senior officials early this week, Pakistan Today reported.

  • Bitkom fordert Einführung digitaler Karten

    Bundesbürger sollen künftig flächendeckend per Internet mit Behörden, aber auch Krankenkassen und Gesundheitseinrichtungen kommunizieren können.

  • Briten lehnen ID-Card ab

    In einer nationalen Befragung des britischen Innnenministeriums hat sich die überwiegende Mehrheit der Teilnehmenden gegen die Einführung einer zwingend vorgeschriebenen Identitätskarte mit biometrischen Daten ausgesprochen. Das berichtet der britische Sender BBC auf seiner Website.

  • Britische Bürger sollen für Smart Card-Personalausweis zahlen

    Nach Plänen des britischen Innenministers David Blunkett soll jeder Bürger für den neuen biometrischen Personalausweis mit 36 - 43 Euro zur Kasse gebeten werden. Entsprechend ausgearbeitete Vorschläge liegen dem Kabinett bereits vor, die Unterstützung durch weitere Minister sei gesichert.

  • Broader e-signature use expected in Azerbaijan

    Goldenpay will start issuance of electronic digital signatures to the population in Azerbaijan in the near future, the company told the local press on July 1.

    To broaden the range of e-signature users, the company plans to provide additional benefits for the recipients, as well as to expand the list of e-services whereby they can be used.

    The company plans to offer e-signature holders such e-services as ordering a loan without visiting the bank and remote opening of bank accounts. Moreover, users will be able to load balance to SMART cards used for water and gas counters.

  • Bürgerkarte wird vorgestellt

    Die Bundesdruckerei wird am Dienstag auf der Münchener Systems das Pilotprojekt der Bürgerkarte vorstellen. Am Dienstag hatte es bereits eine interne Präsentation in Ulm gegeben.
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