Residents in an area of Ghana will be transferring their national ID information to the country’s new SIM card ID system
Government authorities in Ghana are enforcing the registration of their new smart ID card system, according to a report from Business Ghana.
The Ministry of Communication recently issued a deadline prompting residents in the country’s Wa Municipality to register their ID cards to the new SIM card system by the end of June 2011. The country’s national identification card will consolidate personal data, residential addresses, voting applications and national health insurance identification information onto the SIM card. The government will deactivate all unregistered ID cards by the end of June of next year.
Alhassan Abukar, Vodafone’s regional manager in the municipality, recently explained how the government should issue the area’s identification cards. He told Business Ghana the area’s residents were worrying about registering soon, as they were afraid of losing their registration status. Abukar said many residents did not have the proper identification to register for the new program, and the government should issue the SIM cards and allow the residents to register their ID information once they can gather it.
Smartcard IDs are becoming a simpler solution to identification in other countries, as the German government recently ordered smartcard readers for its new contactless ID card program.
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