“There is no point boasting about e-government services if a large chunk of the population can’t use them,” Dr Zammit Lewis said.
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They were informed that the issuance of identity cards would be discontinued and the process would be replaced by the new e-Residence Permit scheme. The problem was that the Citizenship and Expatriate Affairs Department was totally unprepared for the administrative load that confronted it. Chaos ensued.
“Even though we have seen more female participation in the IT workforce, recently there remains a significant imbalance, far more so than in other disciplines such as finance,” according to Matthew Camilleri, managing director at Castille Resources Ltd, a specialist recruitment agency for the ICT and finance sectors.
The system has been designed to quickly and easily capture the necessary biometric information for issuing the travel document. In addition, it facilitates consolidation of the data with the visual information system of the European Union, the VISA Information System.
He was speaking at the opening of the Microsoft ICT Career Days at the Microsoft Innovation Centre - Sky Parks in Luqa.
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