Under the $1.5 million contract -- awarded by the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) -- Digimarc will produce Haitian national ID cards at its secure central issuance printing facilities in Mexico. The OAS is providing the CEP with technical assistance for the massive voter registration drive currently under way, and for the provision and distribution of the national ID card, to be used as obligatory identification for eligible Haitian citizens voting in local, legislative and presidential elections, to be held in the coming months.
Secure, photo-based voter IDs play a critical role in countries around the world in fostering democratic elections and, often, as a secure credential for conducting business at banks, government agencies and retail stores. The Haitian program will take advantage of Digimarc's secure ID production facility in Mexico, which currently supports the printing of millions of Mexican voter IDs and employs the industry's best practices for secure materials management and advanced audit and control processes for zero-gap production -- accounting for every piece of material and every piece of identification produced.
This inaugural program with Haiti marks further expansion of services by Digimarc in the Caribbean and Latin America region. Digimarc secure personal identification solutions are currently used in key ID programs in Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Brazil, Colombia, and Puerto Rico.
