Mühlbauer Technology Group unveiled Uganda’s new national ID card at Hotel Africana in Kampala yesterday. The card is a result of the sh185b project which will grant the ID card first to new voters for the 2011 general elections, an estimated at 3.5 million people. Additionally registered voters totaling, 10.5 million citizens, will have their […]

A contract for a new supply of e-ID cards for Estonian citizens has just been approved by the Citizenship and Migration Board of the Republic of Estonia and its recent partnering with the Trüb Group. Trüb, producer of national ID cards, driving licenses and data pages for passports as well as bank, customer loyalty and […]

At a meeting on identity cards at London’s Social Market Foundation, Meg Hillier, UK Identity Minster, announced plans to have the stored information for new biometric ID cards to be stored across three different databases for security purposes, according to a ZDNet UK article. The new plan was created after the original plan to store […]

Speed Identity AB, a Swedish provider of biometric capture systems, has been chosen to provide photo and signature capture devices called Speed Capture Light to Gemalto for the production of biometric ID cards for Swedish citizens, according to a Source Security article. The program is an attempt to provide secure ID cards to the country’s […]

4G Identity Solutions, a provider of ID solutions and consultancy, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Government of India to provide them with fingerprint and iris recognition devices for the Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) national registry. The devices provided will first be tested under the UIDAI’s Proof of […]

A new authentication manager for Microsoft Windows will now enable any identification device to be used for login. Passlogix Inc.’s v-GO Universal Authentication Manager (v-GO UAM) is said to not only speed up user’s network access and operations, but also cut costs of the back-end authentication infrastructure by more than 85% per user. Corporate markets […]

New Delhi is planning to launch smart ID cards next year to help the poor and illiterate receive benefits from government welfare programs, according to The Press Trust of India. The project was conceived after the IT department of the city Government of New Delhi found that substantial welfare benefits were not reaching their intended […]

U.S. senators are planning to meet with President Obama this week to propose a new type of ID card that would use biometrics to confirm eligibility to work in the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) are pushing the card that would […]

Countries are deploying advanced ID technologies so citizens can access services By Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications National identity cards are a fact of life for citizens of some countries but elsewhere the credentials are the focus of ire. Citizens of countries that don’t have national IDs fear it will lead to a police state […]

South Africa is putting on hold indefinitely its smart card ID project, according to itweb.co.za. Home Affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma stated that her department has run out of money after reallocating R114 million meant for the project to “other things,” ITWeb reports. According to Dlamini-Zuma, the project will be stalled at least until the next […]