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Posted by Ame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "If you look at any map of Australia you can appreciate the logistical and geographic spread that we're dealing with here," Ms Johnson said. "We will be required to register people around the country in remote and regional areas and we will need varying equipment, such as mobile registration units to manage the registration process." Registrations will be carried out through government offices operated by agencies such as Centrelink, Medicare Australia and the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Office hours will be extended to cope with anticipated peaks in registration volumes and vehicles will be fitted out as mobile registration units that will travel to towns without permanent government facilities. An information campaign is likely to be launched before the end of the year in a bid to stimulate as many registrations as possible when card issuing kicks off in April-May 2008. Ms Johnson said much of the equipment needed for the registration process, including vehicle fit-out, digital cameras, scanners and other computer hardware, would be supplied by the access card project's major systems integrator. Tenders for the systems integration contract were issued last Friday as the Office of the Access Card launched the first procurement phase of the access card project. Documents issued to support the tender reveal that the Department of Human Services expects to start registering Australian residents for access cards from April next year. The timetable clarifies the start date for card registrations, which previously was described only as early 2008. Ms Johnson declined to disclose the potential value of the systems integration contract, but has previously said the government-run registration process would be the most expensive component of the smartcard project. Three other tenders for the project are yet to be released, but it is understood that a contract covering the issuing of the human services access card will be put to the market in the last week of January. The other two tenders cover the supply of Eftpos terminals and the supply of electronic transaction services. Likely bidders for the systems integration contract include CSC, IBM, Accenture and Unisys. Ms Johnson said the scope of the systems integration work, which includes the installation of software to manage cardholder data and inter-agency information sharing, meant that there would be relatively few bidders. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21029022- 5001561,00.html
on 1/25/2007, 2:12 pm
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They already have most people on Tax file no, why this..?
ID card roll-call for 16.7m
Ben Woodhead
January 09, 2007
THE federal Government will start signing up Australians for its $1.1 billion human services smartcard from April next year, using a network of 600 offices and a fleet of vehicles kitted out as mobile registration units.
The government is also developing targeted strategies for registering groups such as students, retirees and shift workers for the welfare access card, as it works towards an ambitious plan of issuing cards to 32,000 people daily between 2008 and 2010.
Chief technology architect Marie Johnson said plans to register 16.7 million cardholders were well advanced, although final decisions would be contingent on recommendations from the Allan Fels-led access card Consumer and Privacy Taskforce. 
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