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  • ZA: Smart ID and passport system going offline

    The Department of Home Affairs’s Live Capture system will be closed for a period of five days.

    As of 27 November 2015‚ 14h00‚ until 02 December 2015‚ identity documents and passport services will not be available as the 140 home affairs offices – which are equipped with Live Capture systems across the country – will be closed for business during this period.

    Mkuseli Apleni‚ director general of home affairs‚ said that this should be seen in the context of the department’s drive to improve processes for Smart ID card and passport applications.

  • ZA: Smart ID card announcement soon

    The smart ID card system is being designed and announcements regarding it will be made over the next few weeks, says the Department of Home Affairs (DHA).

    At a Parliamentary portfolio committee meeting last week, members asked when the smart card would become a reality. The department said announcements will be made soon since the current green ID book is not sufficient to match new technologies and transactions under the IT modernisation project.

  • Zambia's adopts multipurpose ID cards

    Zambia has become the first country in eastern and southern Africa to introduce multipurpose electronic national registration cards that will be used for voting, accessing banking services and as driving licenses.

    Zambia and Kenya were embracing information technology as a means to protect integrity of their voting systems and to showcase their ability to use technology for development. Zambia's efforts, however, have outpaced Kenya, which has introduced an electronic voting system in a bid to curb electoral malpractices.

  • ZM: Government in the process of introducing Biometric National Registration Cards

    Government has disclosed that it is in the process of introducing Biometric National Registration Cards (NRCs).

    The Biometric NRCs will be embedded with a security chip containing data of the holder and its biometric features would make it difficult for the identity card to be forged as is the case with the current cards.

    Home Affairs Permanent Secretary Maxwell Nkole who disclosed this in Lusaka yesterday said the security features contained in the chip would, among others, address electoral malpractices.

  • Zweifel am Zeitplan für britisches ID-Card-Projekt

    Der für das britische ID-Card-Projekt zuständige Direktor David Foord vom Office of Government Commerce (OGC) bezweifelt, dass der geplante Personalausweis wie bisher vorgesehen 2008 getestet und ausgeliefert werden kann. Das geht aus einer internen E-Mail hervor, die der Sunday Times zugespielt wurde. Für das Projekt gebe es bislang eher ein beliebiges, denn ein realistisches Zieldatum. In einer ebenfalls in der Zeitung veröffentlichten E-Mail meint der Acting Commercial Director des Identity and Passport Service, Peter Smith, das Innenministerium bereite sich auf den Fall vor, dass das Programm in seiner bisherigen Form nicht fortgeführt werden kann.
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