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Milan, March 21st, 2006
The French Minister of the Interior Nicolas
Sarkozy endorses the Electronic Passport Forum
The global
summit on electronic travel documents
Wise Media S.p.A. is honored to announce
that Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Minister of the
Interior, endorses the Electronic Passport Forum, the
annual international summit on the introduction of electronic
travel documents and the revolution this represents.
This year’s event will take place in Paris on June 8th
and 9th at the Hyatt Regency Paris – Charles de Gaulle.
"In the globalized scenario we live
in today, with border security becoming ever more an
issue, we must cross borders ourselves and work together
on a common strategy for the creation of a global security
infrastructure," comments Philippe Melchior, General
Inspector at the French Ministry of Interior. "Communication
platforms such as the Electronic Passport Forum are
necessary to establish and facilitate the dialogue on
the meaning, the challenges and the impact of the paradigm
shift represented by the digitalization of travel documents
as the core component of a new approach to global security."
This
year’s event will highlight and discuss the issues
and opportunities related to the introduction of electronic
travel documents, provide a snapshot of the status of
deployments on a global scale and showcase the technology
at the basis of the entire life cycle of machine readable
travel documents. Focusing closely on the European scenario,
the Electronic Passport Forum will analyze the three
waves of introduction of electronic travel documents
- first ePassports, then National
IDs and finally Visas - and
the roll-out of the infrastructure necessary to support
this major shift. As a consequence of the mandatory
implementation of a relatively narrow project, the introduction
of electronic travel documents worldwide will pave the
way towards the much broader market penetration of RFID
and biometric technology in the areas of citizen ID
and e-government projects.
For further
information please contact:
Please
contact: epassport@wisemedia.com
Wise
Media SpA
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