“By 2030, all state services and procedures will be available online and a very high percentage of citizens will use these online services,” said Mr. Yejjou, who was speaking at a regional conference on “the protection of personal data: an opportunity and an imperative for the region,” organized by the National Data Protection Authority of Tunisia, the Council of Europe, the European Union and the Arab League.
Presenting the DGSN’s experience in the protection of personal data, he explained that in this model, the citizen will need simple, rapid and secure access.
He specified that the use of an online service will bring the citizen a benefit in terms of time savings, transparency and accessibility, which must not be to the detriment of the security of their transactions and the protection of their personal data.
The official added that the second actor in this model, which will reduce fraud and costs, promote services and achieve maximum inclusion.
He also highlighted the structuring projects launched by Morocco to ensure the transition to a “complete digital identity”, highly secure and integrating modern technologies into identity documents.
According to him, this transition can help accelerate the digital transition of public administration in the Kingdom and enable all public services and private actors to bring their range of services closer to the general public.
Aware of the important role that digital technology plays in socio-economic development, Morocco places particular emphasis on the introduction of new technologies in various public and private ecosystems.
“Our country has been able to make significant progress over the last two decades by targeting the administration, business and society,” he said, indicating that the momentum recorded in terms of digital transition has been supported by the conclusions and recommendations of the New Development Model, which has established digital technology as a cross-cutting lever to ensure responsible and inclusive development.
A catalyst for structuring and high-impact transformations, digital technology is a key factor in improving the daily lives of citizens and facilitating their access to the multiple services offered by the country’s socio-economic actors and operators, he noted.
In the same vein, the official recalled that the DGSN recently won the “African Excellence Award E-Government” in recognition of the advanced level of services provided by the new generation of the national electronic identity card (CNIE 2.0), and the important role played by this secure identity document in ensuring the security of documents and remote transactions and strengthening confidence in digital identity.
In this sense, Mr. Yejjou noted that this project is the fruit of several years of work, the culmination of several months of study and reflection, of dozens of workshops, for the launch of this platform today.
He specified that this is a product that although inspired by several international experiences and existing solutions, is a Moroccan-Moroccan model, which was designed and adapted to the characteristics and specificities of the Kingdom and its ecosystem.
After recalling that the Moroccan identity card has had many versions since 1950, he said that the Kingdom had its first electronic national identity card (CNIE) in 2008, benefiting 32 million Moroccans, including 2.7 million MREs and covering more than 85% of the total population of the Kingdom.
According to him, the renewal of the CIN versions several times in Morocco aimed to improve the security and durability of the titles, democratize the control of the document, support the digital development plan of the Kingdom, dematerialize documents and procedures and meet the growing demand for online services, particularly those with high added value, as well as establish general confidence in digital and physical transactions.
Mr. Yejjou explained that the modernization of this platform is also motivated by the economic and security context linked in particular to the digital economy and competitiveness issues for States, as well as organized crime, cybercrime and terrorism, and by the concern to protect the citizen and bring him closer to the administration with transparency of transactions.
In 2020, a new generation of identity documents emerged, he recalled, noting that it is a document, at the cutting edge of technology, in addition to its new physical characteristics, introduces new mechanisms that give the possibility of exploiting new functionalities.
According to him, with such mechanisms, supported by the new card, the DGSN, as guarantor of the sovereign identity of citizens, and ensuring its historical role as a trusted third party for physical transactions, has extended this role to the digital ecosystem by positioning itself as a national trusted third party for identity, by offering each citizen a digital identity, derived from their sovereign identity, and thus creating the sovereign digital identity.
He spoke about an inclusive digital identity that gives everyone the ability to easily access online services and ensure the security of transactions that is at the heart of the platform’s design.
The protection of personal data is respected throughout the processing chain with the systematic request for user consent, he explained.
Its role is to connect service providers and citizens through the trusted third party, explaining that the citizen will be able to connect to all available services in a secure manner via a single identification.
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