BIO-key(R) and Tiger IT Awarded a Follow-on Contract for Nationwide Voter / Citizen Registration in ... (itizen to access up to 22different servi...)

BIO-key(R) and Tiger IT Awarded a Follow-on Contract for Nationwide Voter / Citizen Registration in Bangladesh

Date:11/26/2007

itizen to access up to 22 different services managed or offered by the government. The National ID card also includes a standard barcode encoded with ISO fingerprint templates and PKI digital hash that can be used to quickly verify the identity of the cardholder and the integrity and authenticity of the ID card.

"Tiger IT, BIO-key and Cognitec, in fulfilling their technical promises in the first phase, have demonstrated they can ensure high quality enrollment data by deploying a powerful identity management solution that delivers accurate, high-speed alias detection on a large scale," commented Major General Shafiq, Military Secretary of the Bangladesh Army. "Their expertise will be valuable as we begin the nationwide rollout of the solution."

This next phase of the project, scheduled to begin in November, will register up to 100 million people, making it the largest biometric enrollment initiative in the world. This will involve more than 20,000 personnel, 500 ID management servers developed by Tiger IT, and over 8,000 laptop computers equipped with Tiger IT enrollment software, BIO-key's fingerprint ID software and FBI certified fingerprint readers. BIO-key's WEB-key development platform will be used in stages to detect duplicate registrations.

"BIO-key is pleased to assist Bangladesh to produce voter rolls and identity cards," stated Michael DePasquale, President and CEO of BIO-key. "The consistency and reliability of our VST and WEB-key platforms, including our Intelligent Image Indexing(TM) technology, have been instrumental in the deployment of this large scale national initiative to register voters and detect duplicates to ensure a free and fair election. This contract award is a major inflection for our company and a validation of the technologies that we have developed over the past 10 years. BIO-key's large scale ID platform is now being considered for a host of additional projects around the world as we are able to provide superior ac
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