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To: Hockeyfan who wrote (15096)	10/7/1999 10:49:00 AM
From: DCBEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

Don't you think Oracle would want to have secure biometric identification as part of this? Who they gonna call? biz.yahoo.com Ben

To: Hockeyfan who wrote (15096)	10/7/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: brad greene	Respond to of 26039

Hockeyfan, OK....it was momentum players. IDX should be moving on something soon......Signing up some players for ID-Safe should not be that difficult. I just think IDX should be valued higher.......like other companies who have similar stories. Anyhow.....some SA search results: We think Unisys won the "Tender" for HANIS......the Home Affairs National Identification System......and that the entire project is about 1.3 billion Rand....or $250 million. Now.....we also feel that the system will be operational by the second half of the year 2000........and we also have found out the card subcontractor......MarPless. Below is a cut and paste from a speech given by the director of Home Affairs on August 30, 1999........(Butazlazi) Begin: We know that in order to perform better, a qualitative leap may be required The Home Affairs National Identification System (HANIS) should offer the opportunity to bring about this qualitative leap. The HANIS project is scheduled to commence in the second half of the year 2000 and will significantly enhance proper identification and status determination of our population. Our present negotiations with the winner of the tender, MarPless, are geared toward; making the production of the ID cards affordable to the disadvantaged members of communities. We hope that the HANIS project's initial beneficiary will be thousands of senior citizens receiving social welfare grants. The final decision has not yet been made on whether our government should compel citizen to replace their existing ID documents with the new ID cards within a set time frame, or whether the ID cards will be phased in, it and when people apply for new identified documents. We are also considering whether the issuance of smart cards should become part of the HANIS project so as to provide our citizens with a more versatile form of identification, which they can use in their dealings with other organs of the state, and even for private uses, such as in respect of building access control or bank transactions. These are matters on which public debate can undoubtedly assist final policy formulation. End. bg ps. For this system to be operational in 8 months......massive amounts of data must be gathered.......including fingerprints for all of the participants......Should be happening now.