Pangea biometric system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pangea biometric system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (1 January 2018, Speculative, , No description)
City	Kinshasa
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Technology Deployed	Pangea ABIS
Information Certainty	Documented
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Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0184
Deployment Type	Surveillance
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managed by	Pangea
used by	Congolese Interior Ministry
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Summary	Israel's Pangea has been awarded a government contract by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) worth more than $70 million. The firm will develop a centralized, automated criminal biometric identification system. The system will enable the creation of a nationwide digital database that will include the demographic and face and fingerprint biometrics of offenders currently listed in the archive. The database will reportedly be accessible from 150 police stations across the country.

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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

Summary

Israel's Pangea has been awarded a government contract by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) worth more than $70 million. The firm will develop a centralized, automated criminal biometric identification system. The system will enable the creation of a nationwide digital database that will include the demographic and face and fingerprint biometrics of offenders currently listed in the archive. The database will reportedly be accessible from 150 police stations across the country.

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Product Deployed	Pangea ABIS
Institutions ⠉	Pangea
Datasets	Unknown Dataset 0184
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Status	Unknown
Events	Start (1 January 2018, Speculative, , No description)
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Managed by	Pangea
Used by	Congolese Interior Ministry

Location:

City	Kinshasa
Country ⠉	Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Description

Israeli firm Pangea has been awarded a government contract by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) worth more than $70 million.

As part of the new public-private partnership (PPP) agreement, the firm will develop and operate a centralized, automated criminal biometric identification system (ABIS) that the DRC government will use to generate certificates of integrity (also known as certificates of non-criminal record) for citizens.

The system will enable the creation of a nationwide digital database that will include the demographic and face and fingerprint biometrics of offenders currently listed in the archive. The database will reportedly be accessible from 150 police stations across the country.

From a technical standpoint, the biometric system will reportedly support various identification features and be protected by security measures to prevent duplication, counterfeiting and other illegal activities.

Pangea and the Congolese Interior Ministry are discussing the possibility of encrypting biometric features in the ABIS, enabling access only after unique applications from authorized individuals. 1

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