Apparently Nigeria has tried an identity card system but it seems to have been abandoned. Ondo State seems to be trying a system of their own. A team apparently is in the advanced stages of planning of specifications. The database platform has even been determined to be PostgreSQL . They are helped by Selena Deckelmann of Endpoint. The pic shows her with Cyril. They have stated that it would be a multipurpose card like the Malaysian model.
I hope to meet the team on Wednesday and talk to them to avoid the pitfalls of the Malaysian model. I don’t know if the many issues of such a model have been worked out. For example, the deployment and registration would face many challenges as some people do not even have a birth certificate. Forget about driving licenses. Looking at the shanty towns and very fluid movement of labour, addresses would also be difficult to verify.
The Malaysian multipurpose card never really took off. In the end most people did not want to depend on a single card for all their services as losing that car would cause many problems. As it is, the large number of replacement cards are indicative of the real problem of stolen or lost cards. In addition, from our experience in Cardiac Centre HIS, there are many cards that has damaged chips but as there are so few agencies using the readers, it was never found out until the CC project and even then there is no incentive for them to replace it as the visual elements of the card are sufficient for normal usage. In addition it appears now that many of the cards have wrong information. We already know that some religions have been wrongly recorded. A member of our team said his brother’s card showed he was female.
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