e-Government Solution

NEC's AFIS - Automated Fingerprint Identification System was the answer,offering a complete solution with specialized software,training and support services,including the system maintenance after deployment. [ 05:05 ]

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Brasília is the capital of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is located within the Federal District. It was inaugurated in 1960 according to an urban and architectural master plan of international recognition. In the early years after the city´s settlement, the Civil Police of the Federal District was inaugurated. The Institute of Identification, a section of the Civil Police and a world wide reference in technology now, performs civil and criminal identifications, issue identification documents and also carry out fingerprint expert investigations.

THE CHALLENGE

With the population increase,services which were carried out manually by the Institute of Identification didn’t meet the demand. This placed both citizenship and the process of collecting accurate evidences that supports the legal system at risk. The challenge was to modernize the system,through the deployment of a technology able to identify and match people by their fingerprints quickly and accurately with the millions of records.


THE SOLUTION

NEC's AFIS - Automated Fingerprint Identification System was the answer, offering a complete solution with specialized software,training and support services, including the system maintenance after deployment.

Nadiel Dias da Costa (Joint Director of the Institute of Identification Civil Police of the Federal District):
We conclude that NEC has become a major partner of the Institute of Identification.

Massato Takakuwa (Business Director Brazil - NEC Latin America):
We are very proud to be taking part on a project of this type, which has two very important aspects. One of them is the civilian application of this tool. After all, the AFIS collects the fingerprint, creates a database and makes the identity card issuance easier with no fraud or any other kind of problem, and the other aspect is the criminal application. By using this same database and latents that are the fragmented fingerprints, we manage to solve crimes. This process of exchanging ideas and having feedback of what has been discussed, enabled us to move a very large universe of professionals, including people from Argentina and Japan.

The system was implemented in three steps:
STEP 1
STEP 1. Conversion of three million fingerprint cards into a format compatible with AFIS.
STEP 2
STEP 2. Installation and integration of the equipment, including setting up of matching and processing servers, and overall system tuning.
STEP 3 STEP 3. Training of users.


THE TECHNOLOGY

With over 40 years of experience in R&D and deployment worldwide, the unique AFIS technology of NEC provides unparalleled accuracy and speed of identification.

NEC's AFIS is scalable and flexible. It complies with the ANSI NIST standards, and is able to communicate with other systems that comply with these standards.

Martín Arouxet (Biometrics Product Development Manager NEC Argentina):
This quality is now brought to the Institute of Identification of the Civil Police of the Federal District.


THE BENEFITS

Nadiel Dias da Costa (Joint Director of the Institute of Identification Civil Police of the Federal District):
In the area of civil identification, we beat the service records of all times. In the criminal area, in an operation aimed at working with homicides, rapes, robberies, we scanned our databases in 8 days resulting in 111 positive identifications. After that we worked with an operation focused on theft and robbery, in 22 days of work, we solved 440 cases.

Massato Takakuwa (Business Director Brazil - NEC Latin America):
This partnership that we had with the Civil Police has helped us to improve the system that was already considered very good.

Carlos César de Sousa Saraiva (Director of the Institute of Identification Civil Police of the Federal District):
It is not enough just having the best system. You have to be willing to build in this system into the actual operations as best as you possibly can. There is no other way to make this project a success beyond having a good partnership.

This strong partnership has created the best conditions to deliver a service that enhances security, justice, and the feeling of citizenship.

Overview

E-Government (Argentina)

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Although in the popular imagination Argentina is linked in the mind with the vibrant, populous capital of Buenos Aires, with over 11 million souls, the majority of Argentineans live outside of the big cities, in sparsely populated towns and villages. As Argentina continues to emerge from a major financial crisis, a constant problem for local governments is how to give the citizens in the outlying areas access to the same services as those in the more populous parts of the country.

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In the province of San Luis, in the geographical heart of Argentina, it is not uncommon for people to have to make a journey of three hours into town to make an appointment to see a doctor at the local hospital. The government of San Luis realized that an e-government could provide the answer to this lack of access to facilities and information.

NEC worked with the government to coordinate the creation of what is now called the Autopista de la Informacion - an accessible, web-based next generation network that rings the province with optical fiber, radio and satellite links. It took three years technical work and twenty two thousand hours of specialist training to turn the project into a reality.

At the heart of the Autopista is the data center which not only hosts NEC's secure servers, but software solutions specially developed for the San Luis government. But access to the network is still problematic for parts of the province where there are no telephone lines, let alone optical fibre links. In those cases, mobile satellite up-link vans provide internet access to the most outlying districts of the country.

But technology is only one step in enabling the population to access information online. In places with more than three hundred people, community access centers are being built – working with NEC to offer free training in computer skills and access to Autopista.

E-government has transformed the lives of the residents of San Louis by reducing the digital gap between rich and poor, between those in the city and those in the countryside. According to Luis Russo of the San Luis government, Autopista is a success not just because NEC implemented a technological solution, but because it was part of an active collaboration. “At every step along the way,” he says, “we were hand in hand. This assistance with technology has created a close relationship between NEC and the government, which allowed us to get this system off the ground”.

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