Conceptual Model of Iraqi’s National Identification Card System

Abstract

Over the last decade, as part of a national identity management program, Citizen Identification System is getting the attention of many countries of the world. As a technology platform for the administration of service delivery by government. Most of the developed countries are implementing robust NIC card system and some other countries, are in the process of establishing identification card system. However, in Iraq Presently there is only one database which is owned by the Ministry of Trade which was developed more than 22 years ago with help from the United Nation oil-for-food program during the 1990s. On the other hand, many government and private organizations are doing their day-to-day operations manuals that made the organizations to keep Exchange and Integration of citizen information among these organizations is very difficult. 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 paper, the NIC developed  prototype for the Citizen Identification System of Iraqi is proposed. NIC is proposing that keeps citizens’ identification information and generates a unique national ID number, which can assist in the integration of citizen information. The Citizen Card is essentially prepared to identify citizens so that better security can be provided by identifying illegal immigrants and terrorists. The study assessed from based on the experience of other countries such as Malaysia by using citizen identification systems and the efforts in Iraq in that direction. Also analyzed the requirements for citizen identification system and proposed a working architecture for Iraqi condition. The implementation issues like the privacy of individuals and the functionality of NIC system is also evaluated. Moreover, the security requirement of the proposed system is specified and a scheme for generating unique national NIC number is presented.

Keywords: ID Card, e-government, strategic management