“FAIC” wins the Excellence Award for Arab Government Achievements 2016- 2017

FAIC wins Excellence Award for Arab Government Achievements 2016- 2017, granted by Pan Arab Excellence Awards Academy for the services provided by FAIC through its Digital Validation Gateway (VG) and in recognition of its role in developing infrastructure projects that support the transformation of public services provided by the public and private sectors in the state to electronic and smart services.

This came during the participation of the FAIC in the ceremony organized by the Academy last Tuesday evening in the Egyptian capital “Cairo” attended by the Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Dr. Yasser Al-Qadi and a number of government officials and VIPs from all over the Arab world where the winners of the Excellence Awards were honored.

The award was received by Aisha Ahmed Al Risi, Director of the Digital ID Card Project at FAIC, in the presence of Abdulaziz Al Ma’amari, Director of Government and Community Communication and Laila Al Jasmi, Media Communication Executive.

The Digital Validation Gateway project is one of the most important infrastructure development projects undertaken by FAIC to provide a mechanism to help government institutions in the country in its quest to transformation to “smart” government and provide its services through mobile phones and mobile devices and facilitate access to customers anywhere and anytime.

Through the Digital Validation Getaway, FAIC offers a wide range of digital ID card services, where users and institutions can access and benefit from its numerous features in accessing electronic services that require the use of Emirates ID card to authenticate and sign electronically without acquiring any software information or experience in encryption.

The services provided by VG include verification of authenticity of the Emirates ID card, its status and validity, reading personal information included in the Emirates ID card such as card number, identity number, name, nationality and other information that can be considered as public data, verifying the identity of the Emirates ID holder through fingerprint stored in the smart ship of the Emirates ID card, changing the PIN Code (password) and the encrypted electronic signature service, as well as the

electronic certificate verification protocol through which we can make sure whether the digital certificate is valid, canceled or revoked.