2013年3月27日 星期三

Smart ID card to be main, permanent source of data

The Emirates Identity Authority and the Marriage Fund Institution signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to adopt the “Smart” ID card and activate it as a main and permanent source for the data of the beneficiaries from the services provided by the fund, in order to improve operations, facilitate procedures and develop customer chip card, by utilizing the data and information provided by the authority for personal identification and verification of the identities of individuals.

According to this MoU, both sides are committed to work on expertise and knowledge exchange through viewing the institutional experiences and supporting the creative and innovative skills through the institutional partnership between the tow.

The MoU is aimed at exchanging information and accurate statistical data that would help both sides to conduct researches and studies of mutual interest, as well as benefiting from the data of the fund’s customers, like the beneficiaries of the grants and the participants of the group weddings, and organizing seminars and lectures related to the national identity which falls in the area of family awareness and youth service.

The MoU also included the efficient participation in supporting and participating in the group weddings and seminars organized by the marriage fund for the authority, which is held on annual bases under the title “The Identity’s wedding”.


Signing the MOU between the two parties was out their keenness to support and reinforce standing strategic partnership relations between them in an efficient way, to contribute in fulfilling the needs of the UAE society, for the positive effects it has on the economic and social levels, and achieving the public internet.

Signing the MoU took place at the authority’s headquarter in Abu Dhabi, with the attendance of Dr. Eng. Ali Mohamed Al Khour, Director General of Emirates Identity authority, and H.E. Amer Abdul Jaleel Al Fahim, Board Member of the Marriage Fund institution.

The MoU stated that the authority will provide the technical support necessary to the integration with the fund’s infrastructure, and the technical applications necessary to read the data stored at the ID card, in addition to managing the unified ID for the purpose of customer identity verification, and providing the awareness to the UAE society with the importance of the secret number to achieve the fullest benefit possible from the ID card.

Dr. Eng. Ali Mohammed Al Khouri, Director General of Emirates Identity Authority, said that signing this MOU with the Marriage Fund institution comes under the ongoing keenness of the authority to contribute in an efficient and vital way in the march of growth and economic and social development witnessed by the country, as well as its relentless pursuit to providing an accurate and comprehensive population register with the highest levels of security, and supporting the UAE government in the strategic decision making and spreading the digital society culture.

Dr. Al Khouri noted that this MoU will contribute to supporting the services provided by the marriage fund to its customers, like the case of the others authorities and institutions that benefited from the integrated electronic system developed by the authority to manage the personal identity, in supporting the country’s quest to building a competitive economy through the federal electronic government plan 2012-2014, and establishing a society enjoying the best living standards.

From his side, Dr. Amer Abed Al Jaleel Al Fahim, Member of Board of Directors of the Marriage Fund institution, said that this agreement is considered an application and translation of the federal government principles in reinforcing the cooperation and coordination between the federal institutions and bodies, and the pursuit to the exchange of institutional knowledge, expertise and experiences in the area of excellence, and the exchange of opinion and consultation to support the efforts of development and upgrading adopted by both institutions.

Al Fahim stressed the keenness of the Marriage Fund institution to reinforce the cooperation with the Emirates Identity Authority in many fields, referring to the fact that the marriage fund has activated the use of the Id card and adopting it in the fund’s transactions as a main document in applying for the marriage grants and the family counseling services, as well as benefiting from the authority’s data base in supporting the work of the marriage and the targeted categories of the institutions, like the beneficiaries from the marriage grant and the participants in the group marriages, and obtaining credible statistics and conducting researches and surveys, and the possibility of the linkage between the two institutions, as H.E, valued the authority’s role in harnessing and providing all the available abilities at the registration centers for the service of the fund.

Al Fahim pointed out that signing the MoU comes under the Marriage Fund’s strategy aiming to reinforce the joint cooperation with the federal bodies, in addition to employee the expertise and unify the abilities in supporting special projects and developing them to contribute to the achievement of both sides’ mission and vision.

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