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VE: Venezuela

  • Electronic Voting, Key for Peaceful Elections in Venezuela

    “The recognition of electoral results in record time honors our work and confirms the immense value of a secure, auditable voting technology that’s recognized by all political figures.” These were the words of Antonio Mugica, Smartmatic’s CEO, the company which provided the technology used by the Venezuelan voters who chose their President for the 2013-2019 period.

    The event which took place in Venezuela last Sunday, October 7, was technologically innovative: for the first time in the world, national elections were carried out with biometric voter authentication to activate the voting machines. “Already back in 2004 we conducted the first national election worldwide with printed voting vouchers; yesterday we proved that we keep setting trends, as we carried out the first national election with biometric activation of the voting machines,” added Mugica.

  • Bundesdruckerei-Gruppe liefert ePass-System nach Venezuela

    Erster lateinamerikanischer ePass wird ab März ausgegeben

    Im Auftrag des Innenministeriums von Venezuela liefert die Bundesdruckerei-Gruppe Polycarbonat-Passkarten sowie ein komplettes Personalisierungs-System für ePässe in das südamerikanische Land. Ab März dieses Jahres will Venezuela damit beginnen, ePässe an seine Bürger auszugeben. Es ist damit das erste Land in Lateinamerika, das Reisepässe mit integriertem Chip einführt. Venezuela will rund 2,5 Millionen ePässe jährlich ausstellen.

  • VE: The city evolves toward online spaces

    With experience since 2005 in Internet use studies in 15 Latin American countries, the CEO of research company Tendencias Digitales, Carlos Jiménez believes that Venezuela has great potential to move towards being an information-based society and its cities finally being digital

    Finding out through an e-mail that the garbage truck is nearby; submitting forms at government offices without the need to go out, and the fact that security agencies can know the exact location of their officers or control traffic lights and emergency units through satellite images, all of these look like scenes taken from a futuristic film. However, they are very close to reality in Chacao.

  • Venezuela looks to biometrics

    The Venezuelan government is turning to fingerprint technology in an effort to combat food smuggling into neighbouring Colombia.

    According to reports, the country plans to introduce a compulsory biometric card that will limit individuals’ food purchases.

  • Venezuela puts vote machines to test

    Venezuela's elections council has held a mock ballot to test the country's electronic voting system a month ahead of legislative elections.

    According to Venezuelan authorities, no problems were detected during the simulated vote which was held on Sunday.

    More than 4,000 touch-screen voting machines and biometric identification devices, which have been installed for the September 26 elections, were used during the test, Associated Press reported.

  • Venezuela: E-Clearing Certificate for CADIVI

    Since the second half of 2006, all clearance certificates from parafiscal agencies needed to apply for foreign currency at the Foreign Exchange Management Committee (Cadivi) will be electronic.

    As stated by Cadivi President Mary Espinoza de Robles, the agencies have started a testing period.

  • Venezuela: Only 1.3% of population use e-government sites

    Only 1.3% of Venezuela's population uses the internet to contact public organizations, while the rest visit offices to find information or solve problems, according to a recent study by local consultancy Tendencias Digitales.

    "However, we expect this percentage to grow, mainly because the number of internet users in Venezuela has gone up by 30% year over year. Besides, there are several initiatives to increase the presence of public entities online," Tendencias director and partner Carlos Jiménez told BNamericas.

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