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Calls to expand the scope of work by the smart card
09/08/2011
More than two million people the number of beneficiaries
BAGHDAD - Haider Flaih
A restructuring of the banking sector in Iraq and the development of technology systems modern and one of the steps that seeks to achieve economic transition in Iraq in general, has played the regimes of modern technology a prominent role in the progress of the banking sector in various countries of the world, but that a number of things conspired to prevent the achievement of those gains in Iraq, or are to keep pace at the very least, until he began work in earnest to use the smart card to receive monthly salaries of the retirees and covered by a network of protection, to turn the two slides journey of suffering caused by the long queues that were serving during which time periods are not uncommon in order to receive their salaries monthly, where manual labor was accompanied by many of the problems was not blackmail, most recently the beneficiaries or increasing rates of corruption ..
Economists in Iraq, praised a lot on the process of using the smart card in dealing with the beneficiaries of the retired and covered by the social protection system, and called for their expansion to include all aspects of daily life the other, especially the card to use at the present time with approximately 250 property can utilize them in pay the monthly bills for water and electricity as well as dealing as a tool in cash to pay the wages of the shops, and experts argue that electronic trading to work is one of the protectionist policies of large users of money widely and on eg those working in Chierfat or private traders, businessmen, industrialists and owners of professions that require financial transfers continue, shows here, an economist Alaa Abdul Amir that electronic trading could provide the cover of financial protection for the owners of smart cards, especially in expanding the use to include employees and retirees alike, which can contribute to reduce the circulation of counterfeit currency, for example, or caught using bad money, as well as reduce fraud and theft, and stresses that the most prominent researcher also intended results of the use of the smart card is to reduce the chances of direct financial friction between citizens and workers in government institutions can contribute to reducing the chances of taking bribes and extortion ..
Executive Director of the company to the global smart card said during his speech (morning) to the size of the massive expansion which has been covered by the company towards the staff of a number of provincial services of the smart card.
He pointed out that work is underway now to include the staff of the governorates of Basra, Najaf, Diwaniyah, Babylon, the smart card to be able later to receive their monthly salaries by the card, noting that other provinces seeking their request to the inclusion of all citizens the services that card to be used until the card identifying them indicating that those provinces seeking to have these cards have a database because of its large gravity of the security can not be penetrated ..
Said Thaer Awad also: We have developed a global company (which is a private company active in Iraq), a wide range of plans, most notably the expansion towards the inclusion of private banks in the work of the smart card and enable them to provide card services to all beneficiaries in Iraq, said Awwad said card project Smart began using the systems, sophisticated and very modern and this is what will contribute to the development and progress of banking in Iraq and contribute thus paving the way for a number of employees in these banks to perform the role again after that was assigned the task of payment of the ATM mechanism without the intervention of scale by working in the banks ..
The Executive Director also hinted that the expansion included a number of vital services in Iraq, body integrity and Mustansiriya University and drilling company in the Oil Ministry and the Faculty of Medicine and displaced persons registered with the Department of Immigration as well as the General Directorate of Traffic, retirees and covered by a network of protection ..
Awad revealed the existence of a trend in the number of provincial councils to bind their constituencies in order to use the smart card as well as an intention to use identity identifiable in a number of other provinces because of its information on the bearer is impossible to falsify or distort ..
And Awad, as well as the signature on the work of five private banks and the smart card system, noting that the plan requires the involvement of all private banks in the system, especially after signing a preliminary agreement with the Association of private banks to hold a joint cooperation ..
Awad also announced the existence of advanced negotiations with the province of Kurdistan to include all services staff a smart card, confirming the existence of preliminary approval with the Ministry of Finance in Kurdistan ..
Awad said that the number of beneficiaries from the services of the smart card was two and a hundred thousand beneficiaries, is to provide services to them through the 1762 port in the whole of Iraq ..
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