Electronic Identity Card: Distribution Will Be In Increments Of Ascending Age

"Only Vital will have access to the database of citizen identity cards ," reassures Rama Rao , Project Director of the Mauritius National Identity SchemeThe conversion step and distribution of new electronic identity cards will be by age ascending , that is to say, from the youngest to the oldest . It will start in October. While the pilot phase will be initiated in mid- September and will involve 15,000 people who have been identified to use the new card.
The project of Mauritius New Identity Scheme and the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise organized an information session for journalists yesterday in the presence of Minister of Information Technologies and Communication , Tassarajen Pillay Chedumbrum .The pilot phase of Mauritius New Identity Scheme will begin in mid - September with a group of 15,000 people selected in July.
They will then be the first to use the new smart ID card. Then start the conversion step or registration Mauritian citizens by age in order to obtain their new ID cards slice . These people for the purposes of registration and will provide a series of documents to support their information: old identity card , birth certificate , marriage certificate , proof of address , among others. Then they will charge you their ten fingerprints .The following data will be printed on the front end of the new card that will be made in polycarbonate : photo ( black and white ), the ID number , two lines respectively for the name and surname at birth, gender, date of birth and signature.
Moreover, in the case of failure of a citizen to affix his signature , the words " No Signature " will be recorded on the card. On the back, you will find a bar code , a control number of the card, the ID number, the date of issue . If insufficient to print two lines on the name space to the front , the name printed on the back of the card.Moreover, these same data , that is to say those of civil such as ID number, name, surname, family name at birth, sex, date of birth, address residential , digital certificate , photo will be encrypted in the chip of the card, which can store 80 kilobytes , as well as fingerprints of the person who will be encrypted - with two fingerprints of the thumb and two index .
When recording , the citizen will be charged the ten fingerprints , but only four will be used on the map. Why ? "The additional fingerprints will be stored at the Government Online Centre and used to identify / authenticate a person in case his fingers deteriorate with age , for example ," says Project Director of ISMN .
When asked whether it is mandatory for a citizen to have collected fingerprints , he replies in the affirmative and argues that it is provided for in the law.These encrypted data would prevent any alteration or fraudulent use of the card, have reassured the various managers of the project. The card will be personalized with data and graphics etched indelibly laser . Citizen data will be saved and the Government Online Centre (GOC ) , located in Ebony .
Rama Rao reassured that everything has been put in place to protect the data of individuals against possible attacks from malicious users like hackers . "Only the Office of Vital Statistics will have access to the database and personal information stored on the card chip , not even the police ," said Rama Rao reporters who wanted to know who has access to this information .Project cost of about Rs 1.1bnThe project to replace the current system of identity cards , which dates from 1986 , has been amended several times .
At some point , we mentioned the possibility of including the license there , but the final choice was made and it was in December 2012 that the project MNIS began with the new identity card that will bring a lot of changes in the lives of citizens. The new card will provide more security for the identification and authenfication citizens , preventing modification or use of the card by others in case of theft . The new card can be used as proof of identity and address in the various public and private services, such as banks or stores and the elderly , as pass for bus rides .
Citizens with identity cards , may kiosks built in post offices receive on site copies of their birth certificates instead of going to an office of the registrar.The project cost , which is approximately Rs 1.1 billion , costing the government around Rs 1,000 per citizen. This amount includes all costs of different elements of the project that includes the new electronic identity card , a Certification Authority (CA) that provides secure authentication of the identity of the citizen and the establishment of a new Central Population Database (CPD ) , a new database more accurate and reliable data.
Previous database with transactions done manually resulted in a number of drawbacks such as duplication , human error or inconsistency between the information on the card and those stored at the Central Population Database .Not reading the systematic mapThe issuance of the new ID card will consist of two stages, the first being in the recording ID Conversion Centres will be established in twelve localities, including ten in both Mauritius and Rodrigues , and the second recovery cards that should take two weeks. For those who can not move or disabled as some other people, mobile units will visit their homes, in hospitals or other places and this covers people who are registered with the Social Security says it does .
The first card is also free . In the event that the citizen loses his card, it will payfor the replacement card but the amount has not yet been set. "We're still working on the cost of the card for citizens , taking into account the fact that it must be affordable for everyone , especially for those who do not have the means ," said Rama Rao .A reader will also read data from the card will be the size of a credit card . Government agencies will be installed where these drives are the offices of civil status , social security and then in post offices that will host booths . Accuracy is made that the reading of electronic identity cards by the scanner will not be systematic , but only in case of doubt to see if the identity of the person who produces the electronic card.
On the other hand , in the case of banks , they will not have access to all information contained in the citizen card but only to certain data such as name , address . The project is also in talks with the Mauritius Bankers Association (MBA) to finalize these aspects .In a second step , the new card will be used for authentication purposes for government services online but this will be possible when the exercise of updating data of the Office of Vital Statistics and data on the map national identity is completed.
This data cleaning exercise will end after that all citizens have completed the exercise of conversion , checked and corrected their personal data, says one .Call you back it is a project G2G (Government 2 Government) led by the Prime Minister's Office in collaboration with the Ministry of ICT and a consortium of experts consisting of Singapore Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE ), an entity Government of Singapore , CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd and NEC Asia Pacific Pte. The new electronic identity card will also be different from that used in Singapore, where the ethnicity of the citizen is on the map as well as the fingerprint. The map does not contain any chip.