Vertical Markets

Vietnam cards

by Mark Rowe

More than 150 Datacard desktop card printers have been deployed to the Vietnam Road Authority to issue driver’s licenses to citizens in all the country’s 63 provinces.

John Lam, general manager of the government business for Datacard Asia Pacific, said: “Working closely with MK Group, our trusted solutions partners in Vietnam, as well as FPT Group, the lead integrator on the driver’s license project, we were able to develop, deploy and maintain a highly secure, responsive and cost-effective licensing solution for the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam.”

The card printer firm says that the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam decided to make a transition from paper-based documents to plastic cards for their driver’s license due to security and durability. Besides addressing forgery and alteration concerns that are common with paper licenses, officials wanted to issue more durable documents with a national centralised database of driver licenses.

Lam added: “The licenses they issue with our desktop systems offer a longer life and more security features. As a result, re-issuance frequency for licenses is much lower, programs costs are minimised, and there are multiple opportunities to integrate licensing with other government identity programmes.”

So far, more than three million licenses have been issued nationwide. The programme has expanded to all provincial issuance offices for citizens to receive their driver’s licenses. By printing the driver’s licenses on plastic cards, the Vietnam government is now able to offer images with retransfer printing, which allows for over-the-edge printing of high-resolution photos, logos, text and background images.

Visit http://www.datacard.com/government.

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