Institutionalising ID project, making life easier

Efficiency in the administration of identity card delivery remains a myth in most African countries. Some citizens are born and die without ever owning a personal identity document, be it a national ID, passport or just a drivers license. Often this is a result of costly highly centralized bureaucracies that are not easily accessible to ordinary citizens.Rwanda has refused to go this route. The benefits of her goal to be the regions ICT hub, are starting to record success, with the recent revelation that the National ID project is likely by next year to have become fully institutionalized. Meaning it will no longer function on an ad hoc basis.The process will include putting in place a sophisticated system that captures all biometric data.