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Gambia News : Gambia to introduce biometric system
The government of the Gambia, through the Department of Immigration,
has announced that preparations are on to introducte biometrics in the
country, a press release from the department, made available to PANA,
stated here Wednesday.
A biometrics system is a pattern recognition system, which
recognises a user by determining the authenticity of a specific
anatomical or behavioral characteristic possessed by the user.
According to the release, the Immigration Department is embarking on the modernization of documents under its purview.
“At
the completion of the modernization exercise, the Immigration
Department would provide national identity documents with biometrics
details,” the release stated.
According to the department, the
first phase of the project, which is expected to be completed in the
next three months, will include the National Identity Card, Alien Cards
and Residential Permits A & B.
“Thus, until the completion
of the project, all of the aforementioned documents will be issued on
an emergency basis,” the release concluded.
Biometrics
recognition, or biometrics, refers to the automatic identification of a
person based on his/her anatomical (e.g., fingerprint, iris) or
behavioral (e.g. signature) characteristics or traits.
This
method of identification offers several advantages over traditional
methods involving ID cards (tokens) or PIN numbers (passwords) for
various reasons: (i) the person to be identified is required to be
physically present at the point-of - identification; (ii)
identification based on biometric techniques obviates the need to
remember a password or carry a token.
Various biometric traits are being used for real-time recognition, the most popular being face, iris and fingerprint.
However, there are biometric systems that are based on retinal scan, voice, signature and hand geometry.
Biometric
devices, such as finger scanners, consist of: a reader or scanning
device, software that converts the scanned information into digital
form and compares match points and a database that stores the biometric
for comparison.
Unlike biometric traits, PINs or passwords may
be forgotten and credentials like passports and driver’s licenses may
be forged, stolen, or lost.
As a result, biometric systems are being deployed to enhance security and reduce financial fraud.
Such systems are called multimodal biometric systems.
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- This is great things which i can said.
And i like it, this happening in my country for a better security.
But what supprise me other country poeple having our identity.
How??
(Posted on March 7, 2010, 10:37 AM amadou)
- no matter what system they introduce,with those corrupte state enployees who thinks me first our country will never free from this crazy things. thanks
(Posted on May 30, 2009, 11:09 AM lamin)
- instead of fixing our pot-holed roads or focusing on other more pressing NEEDS,this government is hell bent on trying to be the FIRST in everything fancy! Not even all developed countries have intoduced this system yet
(Posted on May 29, 2009, 4:53 PM morro)
- is good to see the gambia have this systiem. but that is not the problem. i am in thailand i found gambian passport with meny nigerians and the immigration knows that they wher not gambians how cam?.and is the gambian immigration that isu them .
(Posted on May 29, 2009, 3:33 AM sambou abubacarr)
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