The new director of the Agency for Identification Documents, Records and Data Exchange of Bosnia and Herzegovina (IDDEEA) from a few days ago is Almir Badnjević. Badnjević spoke about what it is like to take responsibility for one of the most important institutions, but also planned projects, in the show BHT1 Live.
He recalled that this is an Agency that deals with identification documents, all records that exist, and the exchange of data, which implies a complete infrastructure so that these data could go between the IDDEEA database and the competent authorities that access that database.
"In short, we are the place where data on all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina are located, which is accessed by all competent authorities of BiH," Badnjevic said.
He stressed that IDDEEA is not the owner of the data, but, practically, holds a database in which the data is entered, and the owners are the competent authorities.
"If you go to the Ministry of Interior and you want to take out your passport, the data you provide is entered into our database. But they are also the owners," Badnjevic said.
He announced that the goal of IDDEEA in the coming period is to enable as many e-services as possible.
"The Agency will, in our team, we have already started working on it, develop applications so that citizens and competent authorities can use a lot of services from these data. All we can do is develop these services and secure or deliver those links and applications to the relevant authorities and say - you have this option; do you want to use it? If you want, make a decision with which to use it," Badnjević said.
As an example, he cited an application that, according to Badnjević, will be used a lot, and that is identification based on photography, which can help the police and other authorities dealing with any kind of investigation.
Badnjević referred to the recently held meeting with representatives of the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"We had a meeting with the CEC where the Agency will ensure automatic identification of voters, which means that you will no longer have to be searched for by the voter lists. The first way will be to put your fingerprint and to identify it in the database of your fingerprints, that it is you, to come out your picture, to confirm it with your face and that we know without problems that it is you who should vote, that you are in the right place, etc.," said Badnjević.
According to him, this is a pilot project initiated by the Delegation of the European Union, which includes CIK BiH and IDDEEA.
"IDDEEA will provide infrastructure, and the complete project of potential automatic identification and later, probably, some kind of electronic voting, leads, makes a decision and manages it the Central Election Commission," Badnjević said.
IDDEEA is currently working on an open data portal.