Citizens of Colombia will soon be in a position to use an up-to-date variation of their digital nationwide identity card — acknowledged as La Cédula Electronic Colombiana — saved on their Apple or Android smartphone as a passport when travelling to eight other South American nations around the world.

The improve to the Cédula Electronic “complies with high worldwide standards” and will empower Colombians to verify their id when travelling to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, Colombia’s countrywide director of identification Didier Chilito has introduced in a video clip posted on Twitter.

Colombia at first launched the Cédula Electronic in 2020, enabling people to create a digital model of their national ID card on their smartphone by downloading an app from the Countrywide Registry of Civil Position, scanning a QR code and authenticating their id utilizing facial recognition.

Updating the Cédula Electronic for use as a electronic passport for cross-border vacation arrives as Colombia has also unveiled options to even further lengthen its electronic identity infrastructure and to introduce a digital id typical throughout the Latin American and Caribbean location.

“Colombia, remaining a chief and promoter of these identification difficulties, needs to advertise a digital id standard for Latin America and the Caribbean. We hope to be in a position to combine all the peer entities of civil registration and identification in the exact same objective,” Chilito explained to a modern assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Council of Civil Registry, Id and Critical Statistics (CLARCIEV).

“The digital ID will carry on to advance in the state. In the coming months, a marketing campaign is prepared so that citizens throughout the Colombian territory can procedure this document far more built-in services stations will be put in, so that all the country’s municipalities can rely on this technology and, of program, also the consulates overseas.”

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