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| Title: | CITIZEN IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM: THE CASE FOR ETHIOPIA |
| Authors: | Tewodrose, Negussie |
| Advisors: | Dr. Solomon Atnafu |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Date Added: | 4-Sep-2008 |
| Publisher: | Addis Ababa University |
| Abstract: | In the face of advancement in technology like smart card and biometrics,
Citizen Identification System is getting the attention of many countries of the
world. Most of the developed countries are in the process of implementing
robust ID card system.
However, Ethiopia uses the manual ID cards issued at kebele level for citizen
identification. On the other hand, many government and private organizations
are automating their day-to-day operations. Among them lie organizations
that keep citizen information for one or other purpose. Exchange and
Integration of citizen information among these organizations is very important.
However, there is no much effort done in this respect. It is therefore important
to anticipate and prepare a mean for integration before more automation is
done and the data repository in many organizations grew. In this project, we
studied a system that keeps citizens’ identification information and generates
unique national ID number, which can assist in the integration of citizen
information.
We assessed the experience of other countries in using citizen identification
systems and the efforts in Ethiopia in that direction. We also analyzed the
requirements for citizen identification system and proposed a working
architecture for Ethiopian condition. The implementation issues like the
privacy of individuals and the functionality creep of ID system is also
assessed. Moreover, the security requirement of the proposed system is
specified and a scheme for generating unique national ID number is proposed
from based on the experience of other countries.
Finally, we developed EthioCIS prototype for the Citizen Identification System
of Ethiopia using software development tools i.e Jbuilder 5.0, Oracle 9i
DBMS, Dreamwaver 2004 Mx, and also OpenSSL for addressing the security
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| Description: | A Project submitted to the School of Graduate Studies of
Addis Ababa University in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the Degree of Masters in Computer Science |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1340 |
| Appears in: | Thesis - Computer Science
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