Every government in the world has a duty to ensure the welfare of its citizens and to ensure that this is done correctly a pivotal role of the government is to identify its citizens correctly.

A central database housing the existence and activities of the country citizens is to be kept by the government. This ensures balanced governance and helps curb crime levels. If a citizen’s identity cannot be determined it becomes a real problem to resolve matters where contention involves the question of who is who.

Unfortunately, just citizen’s names cannot form reliable identification properties as many people share the same sets of names. It is a remote and yet existing possibility that people with the same names can be born on the same date as well, even from the same locality. For purposes of uniqueness, the government needs to employ biometric identification. Coupled with the demographics of an individual, the unique fingerprint data of each person provides a trustworthy means to declaring with certainty the authenticity of a claim of identity.

Nirph solutions form the best and most affordable solution in identifying, enrolling and managing citizens.

  Nirph Citizen Information System Nirph Citizen Information System forms the basis of a government identity solution and consists of an integrated AFIS (Automatic Fingerprint Identification System), secure ID card solution and complete system integration, including forensic management.

Through the Nirph CIS system citizens are restricted to a single identification number that acts as a key to identify individuals on various systems within the public and private sectors. The system also ensures via fingerprint that proper governance exits in areas of the health system, pension system (including payouts), unemployment and many more.

Citizens are enrolled digitally or on paper (which is scanned) into the CIS system and issued with an identification card containing their photo, name, and surname, identification number and other information. A smart card encrypted chip stores their fingerprints securely with their identification number inside the contact or contact-less card.

Rather than rely on just a visually recognizable identification clues - a photo printed on a plastic card with official looking seals – Nirphs secure ID card systems would use encrypted data that can be read only by special equipment. That way, while forgers may be able to copy an ID cards appearance, it would be much harder to actually copy how it would work in the CIS ID verification system.

Strong identity management begins at enrollment.

Enrollment is the first step in creating and establishing strong identity management programs. Processing someone under a wrong or assumed name, or capturing low-quality or minimal biometric data can affect the success of any civil ID scheme by adding costs, fostering identity fraud and hindering the ability of a government entity to properly administer services. The Nirph civil enrollment systems help you avoid these issues, ensuring maximum accuracy of the subject record by verifying that a person is who s/he claims to be, and that s/he can be properly identified in downstream usage applications.

• Capture highest quality data for maximum downstream AFIS performance
• Establish a complete identity record with fingerprint, face and demographic information
• Streamline the capture process, even in high-traffic environments or when the operator is not an expert in collecting biometrics
• Link the enrollment process with enterprise-wide capabilities including backend identification systems, credentialing, verification and physical/network access applications