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Global Identification Card, a USAID Global Information Security Project: "GlobalIDCard"

What should and should not be included within the project scope:

1. What to do?

Such project should be able to assemble and conclude on how the National Identification Card should be established in a typical developing country such as Nigeria. In addition, the National ID Card Project should increase the management of security features, therefore enhancing tools necessary to help the host country increase an economic and security stability.  At the end of the project, participants should have allocated which area of expertise of each participant on the project; used the latest technology in ID software management development; prepared and estimated the budget and the date of delivery; put together policies regarding the project risk management. The following are the main ideas to consider during the project preparation.

The outcome of the project: A package of ID card hardware and software that should be compatible to a particular Developing Nation computer infrastructure.

Product requirement:  Very easy to install and use; and provided in both English and local language

Methods of acceptance:  The local government should delegate their representatives at Washington DC-USAID office, where they should follow all processes in creating the ID Card.

Controlling the scope of the project: The project manager should conduct the management of the project.  He/she should be able to inform to appropriate personalities for a particular action if needed, for further decisions.

Schedules:  The members of this project should consider their availability at a normal daily shift eight hours for ninety days, excluding weekends and holidays.

Resources:  Each party involved should bring or prepare all tangibles or intangibles assets to use during the project, which should be changed to quantifiable units, associated with values by the Project Manager.

Personnel:  Each participant entity involved, should bring its own personnel, at a fixed number determined by the Project Manager, in consultation with their executives.

2. What not to do

Limitations:  As soon as the product had been tested and accepted, by the local government, USA involvement in daily operations should be limited to four consultants: two technical supports from for example Microsoft/Avanade as a software company if the company wins the contract, one from USAID, one from Homeland Security Department at Washington DC office.  Their budget should be determined by USA Department of State.

Risks:  There should be an independent institution in charge of risks and management of the project.  A private independent firm such as PeopleSoft could be of a good company to this kind of work.

Project dependencies

Qualified employees:  An intensive training for people, who would be in charge of the testing, should start right the way at local government for an approximate of number decided by government representation.  The training should be done by the software company.

Precedence in similar product: Check on others National ID that may have been researched and studied in other countries for similar analysis and experience.

Social-Political affect: Examine the socio-political facts on the ground, to accommodate the practicability of National ID card.

Legal:  Examine the legality of information storage and distribution in accordance with legal rights of local citizen.

End-users: They should be the experts for the National ID card; an education plan should be examined as a part of the project plan.

Technical environment: Study the requirement of Hardware and software infrastructure, to accommodate their security.  What infrastructure needed in Developing Nation such as Nigeria, and what infrastructure needed at Homeland Security in Washington DC to support that?

Project assumptions

The uniqueness of the design:  The National ID Card would include information benefiting both the local government and the USA government for international security and global development purposes.

In house tests:  The software application created for this purpose should be ready to work before starting pilot testing at the local country.

Approval of the ID:  The approval should be sign both by a US State Department high ranking official and the Ministry in charge of Economic development at a Developing country.

Pilot tests:  Should be done at ten selected localities, with a number of citizens that should be determined by the local government.

Project constraints:

Local governments' operations launch:  This should be separated from this project; an adjacent project should be created and funded by USA and Developing Nation cooperation.

Integration with the paper files:  The preparation should include collection of data on paper file before their entry in database.  This could be simultaneously done with the information request, in person with an end-users and a citizen at an office, where all technical components should be available.

Maintenance:  The project maintenance should be the responsibility of both governments in accordance to a mutual management of operations as define in the policy for the company in charge of those operations.

There are for sure a lot of things to think about such project, and they would be discovered as soon as the actual project starts.  It would be interesting to see how it unfold!

About the Author

Nyagatare Valens is a state employee at Minnesota Health Department, and he works with others from private and public sector to support grantees engagements in the areas of audit, compliance and administration of federal, state and local government grants.
As Minnesota Health Department grants managers' team member, he is responsible for managing projects, leading grantees meetings and helping other team members understand the grant management environment. In addition, he has certain responsibilities for business development. He also does interact with other functional areas of grants administration, and other practices to execute work effectively.

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