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Prime Minister Gaston Browne says blockchain technology will soon be utilized to create a new national identification card for Antiguans and Barbudans.<\/p>

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The prime minister did not go into details about the card but said, “very shortly we should be introducing a national ID for Antiguans & Barbudans.”<\/p>\n

He said it would be better “than having these different pieces of ID; drivers licence, Birth Certificate and so one can carry a common ID number or national ID number.”<\/p>

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He said the first step is to obtain the data.<\/p>

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“So we are going to move pretty quickly, so in order to secure the data to make sure that it is immutable and easily traceable and so on we want to utilize that technology.”<\/p>\n

Browne added “especially that whole aspect of the immutability of it so you can’t change it. That is very important when you have these kinds of secured documents you need to have immutable records.”<\/p>

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He said the new national identification card will help prevent fraud and improve efficiency in the public service.<\/p>\n

“You note too that even at the birth and death registry people have gone and change birth and death certificates for nefarious practices, now if we had those under block chain they will not be able to do so.<\/p>

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The technology itself is far more secured and it will also improve efficiencies within the public sector,” Browne told Pointe FM on Saturday.<\/p>

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