General Director of Information Technology
Ministry of the Interior __ Argentina
Flavio Brocca has worked on identity issues for 25 years, first on civil registration and then on digital identity, leading Argentina’s National Identity Document project.
Using biometric techniques, the process enabled Argentina to enrol 100% of its population, that is, 45 million citizens. Enrolment and digitalisation extended over a period of 10 years.
Argentina’s digital ID card
The National Identity Document in Argentina currently takes two forms: a physical card and a virtual format, hosted on the phone. The initial ID always requires a face-to-face procedure. After that, subsequent IDs are issued remotely using facial biometric verification. This presentation will show how that process was used to generate 800,000 documents remotely in times of social distancing, and how biometric identity services are changing the way services are provided to Argentinian citizens.
