In Pictures
Follow Us
 |
 |
 |
 |
Management Tips
Cheap popularity can be very expensive in the end. Just like a pack of cards it crumbles so easily. Original, genuine, credible success in all it’s forms leaves a lasting legacy that benefits even generations yet unborn.
—
Links
- General News
- ICT
- Tourism
- Insurance
- Investment
- Oil And Gas
- Politics
- Sports
- Feature Articles
- Editorials/Opinion
- Entertainment
- Africa/International
You Are Here: Home » General News, Lead Story » Slovak company Innovatrics to produce biometric passports for Ghana
A Slovak company Innovatrics is producing biometric passports for Ghana late this year, the company has said in a press statement.
By adopting the biometric passports, Ghana will be meeting the International Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) deadline for member states to provide their nationals with the new system to facilitate easy movements into member countries of ICAO. The end of 2009 is the deadline for providing the biometric passports to citizens of ICAO member states.
Innovatrics is the industry leader in biometric technology, which has the capability to read, analyze, store, and assess the biometric agents installed in the passport.
Remarking on Ghana’s choice of Innovatrics, Charles Boakye, Project Manager, Ghana Passport Issuance Project said “before settling on Innovatrics, we sampled a number of world class AFIS systems.”
“We selected ExpressID AFIS because it provides the fastest search speed with incredibly high accuracy and compatibility with many fingerprint scanners. They already had MS.Net .dlls which are extremely straightforward to understand and use. I must say for customer support, they are genuine partners you can always rely on,” he said.
The Ghanaian Times in May 2009 cited McArios Akanbeanab Akanbong, the acting Director, Legal and Consular Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a report saying Ghana will from April 2010 issue its citizens with biometric passports.
A biometric passport is the most modern travelling document which has features like electronic chip into which has been processed, the thumbprint of holders and kept at a biometric Centre soon to be established in Accra, the report said.
“No middleman can acquire a biometric passport for anyone because with this system, the applicant has to be available for his or her thumbprint to be taken for data and identification purposes before the passport is issued,” he was quoted in the report.
By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi
biometric passports, why do we have to expose a company which is going to be dealing with high security passport to the world unless we still want to make sure they do not produce similar Ghanaian passport to others just as we do with currency issues it should be the same process. The importance of doing so is not to allow people or countries to be soliciting Ghanaian passport for other reasons or other business.