Mozambique wants to use the technology to fight corruption in the country, and is an ongoing project of the Government that intends to eliminate the intermediaries that currently exist in the public administration, when the citizens need to request or access documents.
on Monday, the eID Conference, the eighth conference organised by the Portuguese Multicert about identification and electronic security, the mozambican minister of Science and Technology listed a set of areas in which the executive is working to “denounce the corruption and bad practices in the State”.
These projects are part of the assignment of a unique identification number to the citizens of the country, Jorge Penicela Nhambiu secured later to journalists that will become a reality “in the next year”. The intention was to resume at the beginning of 2016, after a first experience that you have failed, and, at this point, is to decide which number will be chosen from among the various possible alternatives, such as Social Security or what is on the driving licence.
There is, however, a challenge that imposes to ensure that there is electronic certification, so that citizens are not forced to move to authenticate documents. The minister explained that the certification is dependent on the approval of the new law of electronic transactions, the Government intends to submit for discussion in the Assembly of the Republic “next month”.
Nhambiu believes that the existence of a unique number to assign in 24 hours in major cities, is a pillar of public sector reform in mozambique for different reasons. In addition to allowing the birth registration, on a continent where it is estimated that there are millions of people without identification, will help “improve the services of the State,” he said.
But, above all, will help overcome what he took to be one of the “great battles” of the country: corruption. “We want to increasingly less actors human in the process of emission data. We want information technologies to solve problems that today are solved by people so that people do not have to be subject” to the practices that it considers less accurate in the State. “We have a big battle to win against the corruption in the public sector”, he admitted.
Asked about the impact that the financial and economic crisis that the country is experiencing may have on these objectives, by the need to reduce public expenditure or to reorient it for other purposes, the ruler did not deny that they may exist. But he assured that this type of project already have funding guaranteed, although in the specific case of dematerialization of the State the credit, allocated by the World Bank, is close to coming to an end. “We are negotiating an extension or the opening of a new window [of funding],” he explained.
Sitting beside Nhambiu, the Portuguese minister of the Presidency and the Administrative Modernization, which also participates in the conference, noted that the investments in this area “are not the luxury” why “are crucial to the development of a country”.
Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, that during its intervention in the eID Conference has enumerated some of the projects that Portugal has already released or has in progress, he did not hide that “the difficulties are many and sometimes are in the details”. The ruler who has at hand the Simplex has explained that he is in the process of creating in the country a laboratory where it will be tested in these technology solutions prior to implementation, to guard against any unforeseen problems in an area highly sensitive as the reform of the State.
The journalists travelling on the invitation of the Multicert
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