Idemia Fingerprint/Iris/Facial data collected for national ID card in Nepal

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Idemia Fingerprint/Iris/Facial data collected for national ID card in Nepal
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Deployment Status Ongoing
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Start (1 January 2012, Documented, , The project was announced in 2012)

City Kathmandu
Country Nepal
Involved Entities Asian Development Bank, IDEMIA
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Technology Deployed Unknown Products 0105
Information Certainty Documented
Primary sources 1, 2, 3, 4
Datasets Used Unknown Dataset 0167
Deployment Type Voter & ID Registration
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managed by Department of National ID and Voter & ID Registration (DoNIDCR)
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Summary Nepal has started a national ID card system for which the citizens' biometric information (fingerprints, iris, photo) have been taken. The work to build this system is being conducted by IDEMIA. It is being reported that a part of this project was funded by the Asian Development Bank. The plan is to use this national ID card as a proof of citizenship and also in order to distribute government services and social security benefits

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Information Certainty: Documented


Deployment Purpose: Voter & ID Registration

Summary
Nepal has started a national ID card system for which the citizens' biometric information (fingerprints, iris, photo) have been taken. The work to build this system is being conducted by IDEMIA. It is being reported that a part of this project was funded by the Asian Development Bank. The plan is to use this national ID card as a proof of citizenship and also in order to distribute government services and social security benefits



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CityKathmandu
Country ⠉Nepal
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In 2012, the government announced that with USD 14 million from the Asian Development Bank, it was going to launch a pilot project of distributing the ID, with personal data, thumbprints and a unique ID number, to 100,000 people. The first phase of the plan was to cover 15 districts, followed by 25, and finally the remaining 35 districts. There seems to have been little movement on the project between 2012 and 2016, when the government selected a bidder to distribute the ID cards. From six bidders (three from France, one from Germany, Sri Lanka and Malaysia), the government awarded the contract to a French company named Morpho (referred to as IDEMIA since 2017). Morpho was to provide 117,000 biometric ID cards in the second attempt at a pilot project. According to Republica Daily, the project cost the government USD 4,878,698, and was funded by the Asian Development Bank. 2

The chip-equipped smart ID card contains the card holder’s citizenship detail, photo, the fingerprint of ten fingers, the retina of both eyes, and a digital signature. 3

References

  1. ^  Panday, Jagdishor. National ID card to include biometric information. , 2019.
  2. a b  Lal, Abha. Nepal's biometric future. , 2022.
  3. a b  {{{author}}}. {National ID Card Project Speeds Up. , pubdate.
  4. ^  "A Multi-Purpose Biometric eID for Nepal". (2019) <https://www.idemia.com/multi-purpose-biometric-eid-nepal> Accessed: 2022-12-12

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