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Biometría e Inclusión Social:
Irlanda, un estudio de caso
S.E. James McIntyre
Embajador de Irlanda
Buenos Aires, 15 de noviembre de 2011
Ireland/Éire/Irlanda
Ireland /Irlanda
Area / Superficie
70,282 km2
Population / Población
4.5 million / millones
GDP PPP / PBI paridad poder
$178 bn / mil millones
adquisitivo (2010)
Origin of GDP / Origen del PBI
(2010)
Agriculture / Agricultura
Industry / Industria
Services / Servicios
2%
35%
63%
Total Exports / Total
$110 bn / mil millones
Total Imports / Total
$62 bn / mil millones
Exportaciones
Importaciones
Ireland - A Home to Global ICT Players
Irlanda – Un hogar para los lideres en TIC
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Introduction
• The theme of the conference The role of
Biometrics in Social Inclusion is very
important and topical.
• the use of biometrics moving from:
– well established use at our external borders and in
travel documents
– through to more prevalent use in the lives of our
citizens
What is social inclusion?
“ Social inclusion is a term that can be used to
describe a series of positive actions to achieve
equality of access to goods and services, to assist all
individuals to participate in community and society,
to encourage the contribution of all persons to social
and cultural life and to be aware of and to challenge
all forms of discrimination. “
Tradition and Culture
•
Citizens born in Ireland or the UK are allowed to travel
within the Common Travel Area without producing a
passport, but should be able to provide photographic
identification on demand.
•
No national ID card in Ireland
•
No requirement to carry ID – regarded as an infringement
of privacy and civil liberties.
The Picture in Ireland
• Ireland has been quite progressive in the appropriate
use of biometrics in suitable applications e.g the new
Public Services Card (PSC) unveiled in Ireland last
month and already being distributed to social
welfare recipients
• objective of PSC is in line with the theme of using
biometrics to assist with social inclusion
• it enables citizens and residents who are entitled to
services to get them and prevents fraudsters abusing
the system
What is this Public Services Card?
• Credit card size and tamper-proof
• holds a person's name, photograph and signature, the
person's Personal Public Service (PPS) number and a magnetic
stripe for compatibility with existing social services cards.
• the person's name, PPS, date of birth, sex, nationality,
photograph and signature will be electronically stored on the
card.
• in time, the magnetic stripe will be replaced by chip and pin
technology.
• the Gov expects to save between €500-625 million by cutting
down on welfare fraud.
Public Services Card
Other progress on biometrics
•
Biometrically-enabled passport since 2006. Population of
only 4.5m living in Ireland yet we issue 0.6m passports a
year.
•
Biometric Visas (AFIS): Ireland like UK is not in Schengen.
Pilot programme in Embassy in Nigeria since March 2010
taking finger-prints of all applicants. Plans to roll-out to
other Embassies.
•
New Drivers licences from 2012
The future….
• Fraud and identity theft continue to threaten a Government’s
ability to share and provide limited resources to those entitled
to and most in need of it
• We need to look at measures, programmes and technologies
to ensure the right individuals are receiving their due benefits
and entitlements and that at a time when many governments
are struggling financially and that our money is not being
siphoned off by fraudsters
• Many of these biometric programmes can enable
governments to ensure that vital services can get to those at
the fringes or margins of society in an easy and convenient
manner – this is social inclusion in action and piggybacking on
technologies like biometrics
India
• One programme that springs to mind is the Indian
government’s Unique ID card which now enables the Indian
government to get social benefits and government services to
its population of 1.2bn - many of whom have no identity
documents or even an address – they do this by capturing
their biometric fingerprint and issuing them with a card which
gives them access to state entitlements – if the biggest
democracy in the world can do it no doubt many others can as
well
• proud to note, that a company that began in Ireland over ten
years ago is the key biometric technology provider to the
Indian UID project. Daon is the Irish word for human or
individual. Represented here at the conference by Cathy
Tilton and Leo Ring both of whom are speaking on various
topics.
And finally…..
•
we must always be cognisant of critical issues such as
privacy and trust – we must respect the rights of our
citizens at all times through these new programmes – if
these programmes lose the trust of our citizens then they
will fail before they have a chance.
•
All of the programmes introduced in close coordination
with Data Protection Commissioner.
Gracias!
Go raibh míle maith agaibh
(literally “ a thousand thank-you’s”!)
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