Pleiades client
Gemalto in successful to supply SA’s first smart ID cards
The cards were supplied by our client, world leader in digital security,
Gemalto and our job was to make sure the media knew about this development and
understood the technical sophistry behind the cards. We also had the privilege of
attending the media conference when Gemalto was announced as the successful
supplier of the smart ID cards.
It’s been encouraging to see how government has used the smart ID cards as
a nation-building tool. According to Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor, their
launch coincided
both with international Nelson Mandela Day and the fiftieth anniversary of the
Rivonia Trial. This, she said, represented government’s aim to consolidate the
efforts that began in 1994 to deepen and restore the national identity,
citizenship and dignity of South Africans.
Father of the nation, Nelson Mandela, received the first of the new ID
cards, along with president Jacob Zuma; deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe;
former president Thabo Mbeki; political veterans FW
de Klerk, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond
Tutu and Graca
Machel and struggle
veterans Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, Sophie de Bruyn and Dennis
Goldberg.
Nation building and the convenience of an ID that
will fit into any wallet aside, though, the smart ID card will drastically
reduce identity theft and forgery. Demonstrating Gemalto’s reputation as a
world leader in digital security, the durable polycarbonate cards feature chips protected by encryption
software that store fingerprints and other biographic data. Holograms and laser engraving of personal details make it easy to spot tampered cards.
Gemalto’s cards
have already made government services quicker and better in over 80 other
countries, so we can look forward to that too.
To read more about Gemalto and the Smart ID card follow these links:
- http://blog.gemalto.com/blog/2013/07/30/smart-id-cards-for-smart-south-african-citizens/
- www.techcentral.co.za/the-tech-inside-sas-new-id-card/40904/
- www.mybroadband.co.za/.../80625-new-sa-id-cards-stopping-frauds-and-copi...
- www.southafrica.info/services/government/smart-id-040613.htm
- www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?...id...smart...id-cards...
- www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/pandor-first-get-smart-id-card
- www.biznisafrica.co.za/.../836-sa-selects-gemalto-for-national-electronic-…
- www.iweek.co.za/top-pulse/pandor-announces-smart-id-card-winners
- www.engineeringnews.co.za/topic/gemalto-southern-africa
- businesstech.co.za/news/general/40626/new-sa-id-cards-go-high-tech/
- now.vodacom.co.za/article/2013/06/.../new-south-african-ids-on-the-car...
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