Funding needed to start work

PAPUA New Guinea’s Government departments and agencies can be connected to a database which records all its employees’ personal data in order for easy access and verification for a range of purposes, an official says.
PNG Civil Identity Registry (PNGCIR) acting registrar-general Noel Mobiha said the work of collecting personal data base information and recording it into a system and protecting it only needed funding to be implemented.
Mobiha said PNGCIR had plans to have an ecosystem platform that would help all departments and employees have protected access to the data base. “The PNGCIR ecosystem is when you use these machines joining the departments and develop a network,” he said.
Mobiha said the police and court database, as well as those of the other departments, would all come under the secured system.
He said the ecosystem would protect and ensure their personal information is only accessible to themselves and they could also verify their identity through a finger print scan or similar technology.
Mobiha said this would be useful for voting and census counting.
He said this would protect against voting several times.
Mobiha said presently, the PNG Civil Identity Registry was implementing manual registrations in the provinces and districts but could upgrade to have people’s finger prints scanned and other methods used to secure the information.