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Author: The government aims to introduce a multi-purpose ID card, or smartcard, next year and would call bids for the production of 20 million cards a year thereafter. |
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Date Posted: Friday, November 14, 11:58:41am Access to full-text articles from the last seven (7) days is free for members. To become a member, please click here. Membership is free. To view the full text of older articles, please click here to purchase an e-wallet package. Both members and non-members have free access to article summaries dating back to 1996. To download high-resolution, print-quality images, you must be a member. To bookmark an item, click on "Add to bookmarks" under the item of interest. General News [TEXT] Topic & Description Published Government to introduce smartcard Category : TEXT / General News 11 Nov 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < FULL TEXT > Yuwadee Tunyasiri The government aims to introduce a multi-purpose ID card, or smartcard, next year and would call bids for the production of 20 million cards a year thereafter. A meeting on the project agreed yesterday the first smartcard would come out in early 2004, said Deputy Prime Minister Suvit Khunkitti. However, the Interior and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ministries have yet to decide whether to centralise the distribution of smart ID cards. The ICT Ministry wanted central control to ensure security but the Interior Ministry thought it was safe enough to let district offices issue the cards under a seven-tier security system, Mr Suvit said. A project management panel with the power to appoint sub-committees was set up yesterday, with Mr Suvit as chairman and other cabinet members as staff. ICT Minister Surapong Suebwonglee said year-on-year bids would be called for the production of 20 million smartcards a year at no more than 100 baht apiece. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |