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Posted by Moni on 1/26/2007, 3:26 pm, in reply to "B.Bro Aussie Style." --Previous Message--
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Scary stuff.. making life easier or more difficult?
: They already have most people on Tax file no,
: why this..?
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: 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.
:
: "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.
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: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21029022-
: 5001561,00.html
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