040423 Acting Registrar, Noel Mobiha and his young team are fully aware of the challenges ahead of them
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Minister for Internal Security Hon Peter Tsiamalili Junior said that Acting Registrar, Noel Mobiha and his young team are fully aware of the challenges faced in the rollout of the project and have invested considerable time and effort to reduce processing time whilst maintaining the quality and authenticity of an individual’s information.
‘Under Mr Mohiba’s leadership work has been undertaken to reduce the weight of registration kits. For example, existing mobile enrolment kits weigh 23kgs, in addition to a generator weighing 50kg. This means that NID teams are required to carry 75kilograms of equipment every time they travel to local communities.
‘The upgraded kit, which I have on my back, is a robust and smartly designed registration Solar Kit Pack. It weighs just 13kg and has built in Artificial Intelligence which is supporting faster registration speeds. As an added feature, this new kit also has facial recognition capability,’ Mr Tsiamalili said.
The Minister said that application registration times will now significantly improve.
‘The older kits would normally take 12 to 30 minutes to register one person per machine. This means in one hour the NID team could register between 2 to 5 persons per hour. As you will appreciate this resulted in long queues and was stressful for both staff and citizens.
‘The upgraded new mobile enrollment kit and new software that is currently being tested will enable registration to take place in 5 minutes. This will see greater efficiency, a reduction in waiting times and up to 12 registrations per hour,’ he said.
Mr Tsiamalili said that the increased technological productivity will see a substantial increase in daily registrations and will be less stressful for clients and staff.
He also said that the Government is working with the vendor and development team to complete final testing in the next 4 weeks and was investing in new servers to increase storage capacity and system redundancy.
‘The NID project has purchased two new Huawei storage severs, and these were commissioned on the 3rd of April, 2023.
The new servers will become the engine room for data storage and data mining. They will provide processing speeds that are four times faster than the old system meaning that system approval times will increase from 10 to 12 minutes to just 2 minutes,’ the Minister said. ENDS/////