Next
Appointment at ID WORLD 2009
Milan, November 3-5, 2009
The
valuable discussions
that took place in
Abu Dhabi on February 15-16 will continue
again in Milan on
November 3-5, 2009.
The
Citizen ID Forum conference
is hosted by the ID
WORLD International
Congress, the
annual world summit
on automatic identification.
Record attendance at the Citizen ID Forum 2009
in Abu Dhabi: "Best ID WORLD Forum ever"
Wise Media’s Citizen ID Forum opened its doors in Abu Dhabi on February 15 under the patronage of UAE Minister of Interior H.H. Sheik Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The second edition of the two-day conference and exhibition in the Middle East proved to be an overwhelming success with 382 high-profile participants (+21% compared with 2008) – the highest attendance on record for any ID WORLD Forum since their launch in 2005. Outstanding success of the inaugural NFC Academy Conference hosted at the Citizen ID Forum 2009.
The two-day conference and
exhibition welcomed the key
players behind the success
of citizen ID programs and
secure ID projects including
high-level government representatives,
border control and law enforcement
authorities.
First Citizen ID
Forum in
Abu Dhabi:
February 25-26,
2008
The
discussions
that took place in
Istanbul in 2007 continued
again in Abu Dhabi
on February 25-26,
2008.
The
Citizen ID Forum opened
its doors under the
patronage of the Minister
of Interior of the
UAE, H.H. Sheik bin Zayed al Nahyan .
"Wise
Media is honored to
announce that H.H.
Sheik Saif bin Zayed
Al Nahyan, the UAE
Minister of Interior,
will speak on February
25 and H.E. Eng. Sultan
Saeed Nasser Al Mansouri,
Minister of Economy,
will speak on February
26 at the Citizen
ID Forum, the world's
premier summit on
the digitalization
of citizen ID documents."
The two-day conference and
exhibition welcomed the key
players behind the success
of citizen ID programs and
secure ID projects including
high-level government representatives,
border control and law enforcement
authorities.
Among the confirmed speakers,
the Citizen ID Forum saw the active participation
of government representatives
from:
H.
H. Sheik Saif bin Zayed
Al Nahyan
Minister of Interior - UAE
H.E. Eng. Sultan Saeed Nasser Al Mansouri
Minister of Economy -
UAE
Dr. Khalid M. Al Tawil
National Information Center - Saudi Arabia
Gen.
Mohsen Abd El-Aal
Civil Service Organization - Egypt
Col. Saleh Al Kubaisi
Ministry of Interior - Qatar
Brig. Ahmed N. Al Raisi
Abu Dhabi Police – Ministry of Interior
H.E. Darwish Ahmed Al Zaraouni
Emirates Identity Authority
Eng. Ahmed M. Aldammas
Council of Cooperative Health Insurance - Saudi Arabia
Jeanie T. Bernolia
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation - Philippine
Alan Matthews
The Forensic Science Service - United Kingdom
Brig. Saleem Ahmed Moeen
National Database & Registration Authority - Pakistan
Dr. Frank Paul
European Commission
Elham Mohammed Saleh
Central Informatic Organisation (CIO) - Bahrain
Martin
Schallbruch
Federal Ministry of the Interior - Germany
Outstanding
Success of Citizen ID Forum
Istanbul, June 2007
The
Electronic Passport Forum
and Citizen
ID Forum opened its
doors in Istanbul on June
21st in the presence of Turkish
Minister of Labor and Social
Security Murat Basesgioglu.
Endorsed by the European Commission,
the first edition of the event
outside the EU proved to be
a great success with 249 high-profile
participants attending the
2-day conference and exhibition.
Murat Basesgioglu,
Turkish Minister of Labor
and Social Security, opened
the event by discussing the
technology shift that the
Turkish government has spearheaded
since 2003, aimed at providing
citizens with access to a
variety of eGovernment services
in the fields of customs,
social security, education
and justice. The Minister
also announced the beginning
of the electronic ID and social
security card project in pilot
areas as of July 2007.
The Electronic
Passport Forum and
Citizen
ID Forum welcomed an
array of world-class panelists
to review the status of the
progressive digitalization
of Passports, as well as National
IDs, Driver’s Licenses, Health
Cards, Visas and Green Cards
worldwide. These included
representatives of Malaysian
National Registration Department,
the Belgian Ministry of the
Interior, US Department of
Homeland Security the Dutch
Ministry of Justice, Frontex,
the Estonian National Certification
Authority the German BSI Federal
Office for Information Security,
the Polish Ministry of Interior,
the Belgian FEDICT Public
Federal Service, the French
Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
UK Border & Immigration Agency
and the Italian Ministry of
the Interior.
The
Electronic
Passport Forum
and Citizen
ID Forum 2007 proceedings
(CD-ROM + binder with speaker details)
are available for
sale.
