Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is witnessing on Wednesday the inauguration of an integrated complex for secured and smart documents in Cairo, which will be issuing all government documents and certificates at a high level of security via a unified central system.
President El-Sisi toured the complex and its different production lines tasked with issuing the papers, which include educational certificates, passports, documents of civil status transactions, all notary documents, government contracts, smart cards and others.
The project is in line with the country's plan to boost digital transformation, especially in terms of government related documents, it noted.
Egypt is currently paying special attention to digital transformation as it targets the digitization of all government services countrywide.
President El-Sisi said that the overall cost of the complex is nearly $1 billion and should help in confronting corruption and violations related to forgery.
He noted that the project will help achieve a great leap, mainly when it integrates with the idea of the smart government to be located in the New Administrative Capital.
The complex will also prevent forgery of certificates because all certificates will be 99.9 percent secured after being issued by the complex, El-Sisi stressed.
"The elements of this project may exist in other countries, but such integration may only be in very few countries," he added.
El-Sisi called for improving legislation that criminalize the violations committed in this respect.
Source: Al-Ahram Online
