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initial pilots being discussed include an eProcurement scheme in East Africa, an
eID initiative in central Asia to create a business model for the use of eID on
mobile telephony platforms, and a cloud computing pilot for business licensing
or tourism applications.
“It’s about test-driving the Facility,” says Besançon. “We’re using workshops and knowledge exchanges to see the constituency of the countries, but it’s up to them to decide what they want to do in each area.”
One example of an existing eID project that combines the delivery of social services with identity and payment is the pioneering eHealthcare program in Algeria. Its aim is to streamline healthcare administration, claims and reimbursements through the use of smart technologies, including microprocessor cards and associated software and services. The cards need to be highly secure, because they contain sensitive data that can show authorized people what healthcare has been provided to the cardholder, by whom and at what cost.
Alongside their security features, they also need to be easy to use, so that they can provide rapid access to the data by different people including beneficiaries, doctors, pharmacists and social security agencies. By mid-2010, some 7 million cards will have been distributed to Algerian citizens.
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eHealthcare Algeria
Algeria - a complete eHealthcare solution for the benefit of its Citizens
[Article from our focus: Modernizing Healthcare] Algeria’s healthcare organization, CNAS, has spent the past two years introducing a smart card based national healthcare system.
The Chifa Card
