Sri Lanka ID Gearing Up to Go Digital

Sri Lanka’s unique digital ID project, prepared jointly by the Sri Lanka Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) and the Department of Registration of Persons, is about to go live, according to news reports in the country.

Speaking to The Sunday Morning Business, ICTA Chairman Lalith Gamage said that the organisation is in the process of collecting, collating, and consolidating into one set all the information of Sri Lanka’s citizens, which would then be used to generate and release a unique ID.

‘ICTA is in the process of developing software and have provided the proof of concept to collect the biometric information of the people,’ he stated.

The unique digital identity card is set to digitise the process of submitting accurate details of all citizens and enable the presentation of their information on the ID cards in a simpler manner to different government departments which are governed by different legal provisions.