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Benefits and operating procedures

This requires implementation of two sub-projects to contribute to securing these two delicate stages:

• Converting the civil register to a paperless system
• Producing secure Public Official cards

Converting the civil register to a paperless system

The central element providing proof of the authenticity of the identity of individuals requesting secure documents is of course the extract from the civil register.
Converting the civil register to a paperless system is therefore based on at least two main aims:

• The digital transmission of extracts via a secure channel, avoiding fraudulent actions by intermediaries with access to non-secure copies.
• Gradual creation of a digital repository of civil registry documents, which will rapidly become the parent database for all identification documents. Bearing in mind that it is always possible to adopt a proactive approach to speeding up the digitization of archives rather than simply waiting to receive document renewal requests.

For countries who consider their archive data to be insufficiently reliable, it is also possible to proceed with national registration in the form of a census campaign. Some countries have then opted for biometric registration, taking the view that citizens' digital and/or facial biometry remains the most reliable source for unmistakably identifying them. The "one for one" biometric inspection is performed when a civil register supporting document is transmitted, thus enabling its authenticity to be verified.

Securing the registration system

To prevent secure documents being traded as goods, officials working anywhere in the system will be provided with Public Official Cards and, in their role as registrars, will personally validate each of the information exchange and modification stages involved in producing the document.

So the first e-ID documents to be delivered, establishing an excellent pilot basis, will be Public Official Cards. As the first documents to be registered in a secure manner, they will play an active role in supporting security throughout the document system.
 

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Dematerialized national register can help slash queues in city halls