The government has launched a platform of "selfies" to do paperwork at a distance – 07/12/2018

The government introduced a digital face-recognition platform for remote paperwork, allowing retirees, for example, to demonstrate "survival" in procedures where they must regularly certify their identity. In addition, the system will allow its use to take bank accounts and renew pbadports and DNI, among other services.

In an act that Ministers Andrés Ibarra and Rogelio Frigerio held at Casa Rosada, officials explained that the government has invested $ 28.5 million in this system which will allow people to "clean up" their homes. remotely execute any procedure that now requires validation of identity.

The Digital Identification System (DID) can be used by all public bodies and private companies, "to perform remote procedures, easily and safely," officials said. It will be gradually put in place, since it now has the ability to process between 300,000 and 400,000 transactions a day, so that in the short term it will be used so that banks can grant loans and Remotely open savings banks from their clients. 19659002] For example, next month, Banco Provincia will use it to grant loans and carry out banking transactions according to officials in their presentation. The system will also be used for border control, migration and entertainment.

The platform works with a "selfie" and a photo of the DNI of each person who wants to do the procedure, including the data will be compared to the National Register of People (Renaper), which has 45 million photos and fingerprints.

The Minister of Modernization, Andrés Ibarra, stressed that the system "before and after brand in the entire ecosystem of digital services, it is a very important step to simplify the lives of people, without ranks, delays, or trips and unnecessary turns, where technology plays a fundamental role. "

This system will be incorporated into the Mi Argentina digital platform so that people have only one window with a digital profile that encompbades all interactions with the state. In this sense, the Government launched at the beginning of the year the National System of Change, which allows to relay itself online in several public agencies, from Argentina.gob.ar/turnos, where you can do the procedures of AFIP, ANSES, PAMI, DNI and Pbadport, among others.

The terms of use of the Digital Identification System (DID) include three modalities of integration, for public and private organizations : an option is for l 39; agency or company to design its own application and to connect with the Renaper database. A second alternative is for the government to deliver the application with the programming tools so that it can be incorporated into its own platforms. And there is also the possibility to give an application with the validation process, so that any agency uses it as an external resource, through a QR code.

The Minister of the Interior and Public Works, Rogelio Frigerio, said: The Digital Identity System is the first technological tool developed by the state that, through the validation of the Identity by the face, will allow the citizen to access public and private services, without having to move to an office. "