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  • Österreich: Wieder Wirbel um die ''E-Card''

    Millionenhonorare laut Sozialminister Haupt ohne Ausschreibung vergeben | Prüfung der Chipkartengesellschaft beantragt | Haupt für Fingerabdruck auf Krankenscheinersatz

  • Österreichische Bürgerkarte vorerst nur für Windows

    Alle ab heute, Montag, beantragten Maestro-Karten österreichischer Geldinstitute sind signaturfähig und können mit qualifizierten Signaturen des Anbieters a-trust ausgestattet werden. Ab März wird dies auch für Mastercards angeboten. Signaturen anderer Anbieter unterstützten die Karten nicht. Mit ihnen sollen sich die Bürger des Landes im Geschäfts- und Behördenalltag online identifizieren und Dokumente rechtsverbindlich unterzeichnen können. Die Kosten belaufen sich im ersten Jahr je nach gewähltem Lesegerät auf rund 50 Euro oder mehr. Zu Beginn werden jedoch nur Windows-Betriebssysteme unterstützt, Software für Linux wird für Mitte des Jahres versprochen.

  • Philips präsentiert drahtlose Chipkarte als Ausweissystem

    Philips will künftig sichere, drahtlose Internet-Zugangstechnik in verschiedene Geräte integrieren. Als eines der ersten Projekte entwickelt der niederländische Elektronikkonzern gemeinsam mit dem Uhrenhersteller Junghans eine spezielle Armbanduhr mit eingebautem Transponder-Chip, teilte das Unternehmen am Montag in Hamburg mit. Damit sollen Nutzer ohne Eingabe von Passwörtern zu Hause oder unterwegs verschiedene Unterhaltungs- oder Informations-Angebote im Internet nutzen können. "Über diese neue Form der Kommunikationsfähigkeit werden künftig nahezu alle Geräte der Konsumentenelektronik verfügen", sagte Kai Grassie, Vice Präsident des Bereichs Innovation and Technology bei Philips.

  • Philips: Passwort-Chips für den Schlüsselbund

    Programmierbare Chipkarten sollen künftig weltweit den Zugriff auf E-Mails und das Internet ermöglichen. Philips stellte dazu seine "Web-linking Technology" vor, mit der ohne ein Passwort personalisierte Websites aufgerufen werden können.

  • PK: President appreciates payment of pension through Smart Card

    Nadra has prepared useful system

    President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that the pension disbursement through Nadra’s smart CNIC will not only streamline the pension disbursement system but would also provide a great comfort and facilitate those pensioners who have rendered huge and valuable services for the country.

    He said this while chairing a briefing on pension disbursement through smart CNIC by Nadra at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, which was attended among others by Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Interiorminister A Rehman Malik, Federal Minister for Capital Administration and Development Nazar Muhammad Gondal, M. Salman Faruqui Secretary General, SAPM Ms. Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Muhammad Tariq Malik Chairman Nadra, Wajid Rana, Secretary Finance, and other senior officials of the concerned departments.

  • PK: Nadra launches smart identity cards for children

    The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) is set to start issuing chip-based Smart National Identity Cards for children of under eighteen. According to a press release, the smart cards for children, having more value added services, are being issued after the successful launch of Chip-Based Smart National Identity Cards (SNIC) for the adult population of the country. The Child Registration Certificate (CRC) would remain valid and Nadra would continue issuing the same as per current registration policy.

    The launch of state of the art Smart Identity Card is to extend an experience of Hi-Tech security solution for the protection of juveniles' identity. Chairman Nadra Tariq Malik said the chip-based Smart Identity Card for the children will offer multi-dimensional usage and services, health, educational, social and financial inclusion programs. The new card for children would be capable of holding applications and data from the health, education and social sector such as vaccination records, academic records and polio registrations, he added.

  • PK: Nadra to introduce smart ID card for pensioners

    President Asif Ali Zardari has advised the government to facilitate the pensioners by streamlining the pension disbursement mechanism for facilitating all pensioners particularly the disabled ones.

    The President while taking serious note of the agonies being faced by the pensioners in collecting their monthly pensions gave these directions at a meeting specially convened for the purpose in the Presidency late Friday.

    The meeting was attended among others by the Auditor General of Pakistan, Finance Secretary, President National Bank of Pakistan, Chairman NADRA, Director General National Savings and Secretary General to the President Salman Farouqui.

  • PK: Pensioners to be facilitated through Biometrics Smart Card: NADRA

    National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) on Thursday claimed that it has developed a mechanism to issue Biometrics Smart Cards to facilitate pensioners.

    The programme would help the pensioners to withdraw their pension from any biometrics enabled platform used by banks, post offices and any other alternative channels.

    All the technology components are fully developed by NADRA, tested and ready for deployment.

  • PK: President directs to facilitate pensioners

    President Asif Ali Zardari advised the government to facilitate the pensioners by streamlining the pension disbursement mechanism for facilitating all pensioners, particularly the disabled ones.

    The president while taking serious note of the agonies being faced by the pensioners in collecting their monthly pensions gave these directions at a meeting especially convened for the purpose in the Presidency. The meeting was informed that pensioners drawing less than Rs 10,000 per month would be provided free smart cards.

  • PK: Public transport: Smart cards for use in all buses planned

    The Lahore Transport Company (LTC) is to install smart card readers in all buses so commuters can use public transport all over the city on the same cards.

    Travellers on the Metro Bus Service (MBS) already have the option of buying a smart card, costing Rs133, for multiple journeys. The LTC and the Punjab Metro Bus Authority (PMBA) are considering whether to introduce a new smart card for all buses, or just allow the Metro Bus cards to be used on other buses.

  • QA: Smart ID cards now available for expats

    Expatriates in Qatar can now begin to upgrade their identification cards to highly-secure Smart ID cards, Ministry of Interior officials said yesterday.

    Embedded with a chip as well as host of security and safety features, switch to the Smart ID cards by expatriates will remain optional for an indefinite period of time, unlike Qataris for whom it has been mandatory, the ministry’s Information Systems Department director Brig Saleh Khamis al-Kubaisi said.

    “The idea is to have one convenient, standardised, multi-purpose card offering e-government services to all residents in Qatar,” al-Kubaisi said.

    The Smart ID cards were first launched for nationals in October 2007.

  • Qatar to issue smart ID cards from next year

    Qatar will start issuing hi-tech biometric smart cards to its residents from the first quarter of 2007 as part of the country’s National Identity Card Project.

    The Interior Ministry has signed a contract to this effect with Axalto and its local sponsor International Trading Group, on the sidelines of the Milipol Qatar 2006 exhibition that concluded in Doha yesterday.

  • Qatar: After smart ID, elections to go electronic

    Following the introduction of biometric passports in May for nationals, the next step is expected to be electronic voting and e-elections as the country makes rapid technological strides towards full e-governance.

    Colonel Saleh Ghanim Al Kubaisi, Director of the Information Systems Department at the Ministry of Interior, told The Peninsula yesterday: "Hopefully, this will happen." Voting, in the Central Municipal Council polls, for example, is carried out using slips of ballots.

  • Qatar: E-govt studies smart card to replace ID

    Qatar’s e-government and the Border Passports and Alien Affairs Department at the Ministry of Interior are currently studying a project to replace the plastic Bataka Shaksiya or personal ID card with a Smart Card, Dr Ahmed Al Mohannadi, director of the e-government, said. The e-government is also working on a project with the Qatar National Bank to offer an e-wallet or electronic payment facility for various government services offered through the portal, he added.

  • Qatar: Individual exit permits online

    Once residents are issued with smart identity cards, either later this year or in early 2009, they will be able to apply for exit permits online.

    The existing practice is only companies with authorised signatories can apply for the permits online. Colonel Saleh Khamis Ghanim Al Kubaisi, Director of the Information Systems Department at the Ministry of Interior, told reporters yesterday: “However, it depends on the company if it will retain employees’ passports or not.”

  • Qatar: MoI to issue smart ID cards next year

    The new, National Identity Smart cards (NIS) which the Ministry of Interior is planning to issue to Qatari citizens and expatriates early next year, offers a host of features such as the ability to perform several transactions electronically and storage of biometric data such as iris scan, fingerprint and image, all on an embedded microchip.

    A deal to supply the equipment and technology to issue one million such smart cards was signed here yesterday between two foreign suppliers and Qatar’s Ministry of Interior.

  • Qatar: Office opened for nationals to get smart ID cards

    THE Nationality and Travel Documents Department has opened a temporary office for issuing smart ID card to Qataris at the Qatar National Olympic Committee (QNOC) headquarters.

    QNOC secretary general Sheikh Saud bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani, who inaugurated the office, thanked the Ministry of Interior for providing the facility.

    The department’s director, Lt Col Abdullah Saa’d al-Buainain, said the initiative comes under the plan of the ministry to make this service available at the premises of various organisations in the country.

  • Qatar: Smart card for expats nearer with deal

    Qatar came one step closer to issuing Smart ID cards for expatriates with the signing of a QR31m agreement with a local IT company for the project.

    According to the agreement, signed between the Ministry of Interior and Itqan Holding last week, the latter will assist the Ministry in issuing the smart ID cards, specifically for expatriates. The project is to be implemented in 12 months.

  • Qatar: Smart ID cards for expats by year-end

    Expatriats in Qatar will be able to avail of several services offered by smart ID cards by the end of this year, an official said yesterday.

    Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a seminar on the uses of smart cards, officially launched last October for Qataris, IT Department director at the Ministry of Interior, Col Saleh Khamis al-Kobeisi, said that expatriates would start receiving smart cards by the end of this year.

  • Qatar: Smart ID cards soon for expats

    Expatriates in Qatar will start receiving smart ID cards by the end of this year or early next year, a top Ministry of Interior official said yesterday.

    Col Saleh Khamis Ghanim al-Kubaisi, the director of Information Systems Department at the ministry, said the smart card project was a major step for the ministry and "it will make a big difference in providing e-government services".

    The project was aimed at having "one convenient, standardised, multi-purpose card and to seamlessly improve government services to both citizens and residents," he added.

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