{"id":244637,"date":"2018-05-15T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=244637"},"modified":"2018-05-15T12:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T10:21:25","slug":"home-affairs-to-launch-new-identification-system-with-iris-and-facial-recognition-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/244637\/home-affairs-to-launch-new-identification-system-with-iris-and-facial-recognition-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Affairs to launch new identification system &#8211; with iris and facial recognition coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of home affairs, Malusi Gigaba has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/speeches\/minister-malusi-gigaba-launches-new-identification-system-16-may-14-may-2018-0000\">announced<\/a> <\/strong>that he plans to launch a new Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) on Wednesday (16 May).<\/p>\n<p>The new identification system will be powered by a sustainable technology and will offer a single view of citizens across the life cycle and their status change at various stages.<\/p>\n<p>The department said that the ABIS will act as a fundamental baseline for the broader National Identification System (HANIS) and will consolidate South African and foreign nationals&#8217; data into a single base.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The grand plan seeks to integrate HANIS and the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) into an automated system through ABIS with the capability to identify and verify people through <strong>fingerprints<\/strong>, <strong>facial recognition and IRIS technology<\/strong>,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department&#8217;s 2018\/2019 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dha.gov.za\/files\/APP%202018_19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual performance plan<\/a><\/strong>, it expects the\u00a0AFIS data migration into ABIS to be completed within the\u00a02018\/19 financial year, with iris and palm-print recognition capabilities beginning to come online by 2019\/20.<\/p>\n<p>The new systems form part of an ongoing revamp of home affairs offices around the country.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/237141\/gigaba-to-tackle-long-queues-at-home-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April<\/a><\/strong>, Gigaba said that he had\u00a0directed his department to prepare a comprehensive report and strategy on managing long queues at home affairs offices across the country.<\/p>\n<p>This minister noted that he had been inundated with calls from members of the public regarding time spent at offices for documents like smart ID cards, passports and certificates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA comprehensive report and effective strategy on how to deal with this matter swiftly are a high priority as the department remains committed to delivering high quality services to citizens and other clients,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/243359\/new-laws-are-needed-to-fix-south-africas-massive-migration-problem-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New laws and spending are needed to fix South Africa\u2019s massive migration problem: officials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new identification system will be powered by a sustainable technology and will offer a single view of citizens across their life cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-244637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244637"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244663,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244637\/revisions\/244663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}