THE ROLE OF CIVIL REGISTRY TO ACTIVATE THE ELECTRONIC AUTHENTICATION PRESENTER : L.C Police \ Ahmed Adam Ahmed Abdel ORGANIZATION : Ministry of Interior - General Directorate of Civil Registry

The paper contains 1. Definition of the civil registry 2. Overall objectives of the Civil Registry 3. Civil Registry and electronic transactions 4. Issuance of electronic authentication certificate by civil registry 5. Electronic signature to report births and deaths 6. The role of the civil registry in the electronic authentication 7. Recommendation

Definition of the civil register Civil Registration is a system for recording data of all citizens and residents, in the records specified by the regulations and the law

Definition of the civil register The registration contains the following data: 1. Basic data of the person 2. Vital data: a facial image and fingerprints of hands. 3. Life events : the birth, marriage, divorce, death , and the issuance of its certificates and personal identity card

Overall objectives of the Civil Registry: There are many objectives and goals of civil registry, including the following: 1. Ensure the rights of individuals in terms of nationality, ownership, enjoyment of political rights. 2. Create a central database. 3. Provide statistical data to be used in development plans.

Civil Registry and electronic transactions The Civil Registry is the base of the electronic infrastructure of Sudan, which help the beginning of the fallowing issues: E-government E-Business E-transactions E-Medicine Others

Civil Registry and electronic transactions This definition reflects the three key elements of the concept of e-services, namely: Providing the service: The government agencies that provide electronic services to citizens and companies are Providers of the service. Receipt of the service: citizens and companies are recipients of this service. Service Delivery

Issuance of certificate of authentication of electronic record:

Issuance of certificate of authentication of electronic record:

Electronic signature to report births and deaths: In the case of birth, for example: You can use an application in a mobile phones to send the name of the baby, the national number for the father, the national number of the mother, date and place of birth and then send it encrypted to civil registration.

Electronic signature to report births and deaths: In case of death: an application can be used in a mobile phones to send the national number of the deceased, date and place of death and cause of death and the national number for the teller and sent an electronically-signed massage to the Civil Registry.

The role of the civil registry in electronic authentication the civil registry can help the deployment of this culture as fallow: Link the issuance of the Authentication Certificate by civil registry database. Save a copy of the public key or a number of keys for each individual in the civil registry. and then when any text signed by the person that can be sure by the civil register using the public key. this is a useful in the case of transactions that are not online such as the signing of contracts and agreements and other.

Recommendation Proportion to the importance of electronic authentication at this stage and its relation to civil registry we recommend the following: 1. Giving a sub- authority to civil registry to issue certificates to the departments and electronic devices, networks and employees of the police. 2. Creating structure for the Authority in civil registry under management of the civil registration and technical support under the power of electronic authentication. 3. Training the police force that will work in this area to be adequately trained to do the job.

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