In an interview with APA on Wednesday, the Mozambican coordinator of the ID card project, Paul Fobes said the project was part of Mozambique’s e-government strategies to enhance the implementation of other strategies in the electronic world.
“We consulted and heard from different sources that Rwanda was doing well in ICT especially the successful story of the electronic national identity card encouraged us to come and learn from your experience and see how suitable it can be to Mozambicans,” Fobes said.
He said Mozambique had made some steps in ICT but had not ventured into making electronic identity thus they expected real lessons from Rwanda.
“We have been in electronics but seeing it on global perspective, the cyber space and schools but had not been able to work on identity cards,” Fobes noted
He said that after gathering information on national identity cards from South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda, the team picked on Rwanda whose idea they saw fitting for Mozambique.
The team of six, doing their study with the Rwanda Information and Technology Authority, the body that designed the Rwandan national identity card, is expected to stay in the country for a week.
The Rwandan electronic ID card is supposed to work as a driving permit, insurance card and passport among other purposes, though many are yet to use it that way.
The Mozambican delegation has become the third group to tour Rwanda on electronic identity card project after the Ugandans and Kenyans some time back.
---
Quelle/Source: African Press Agency, 22.04.2009
Bitte besuchen Sie/Please visit:
