The Ministry of Education (Minerd) plans to issue electronic birth certificates for students starting this 2024-2025 school year.
A pilot project is underway and gradually should expand to all public schools enabling schools to use digital birth certficates to enroll students in public schools. Parents need but to take their IDs to the school for the birth certificates to be generated.
The move seeks to simplify the school enrollment process and save families money while ensuring data accuracy.
This initiative, led by the Ministry of Education (Minerd) in collaboration with the Central Electoral Board (JCE) and the Government Office of Information and Communication Technologies (OGTIC), is part of the Efficient Government (Zero Bureaucracy) Program.
Víctor Hernández, director of Information and Communication Technology (DGTIC) at Minerd, explained that the X-Road platform will be used to provide this service. This platform will allow for electronic registration of student enrollment in the Information System for School Management (SIGERD), which contains all information about schools, students, and collaborators in the education system.
The process includes an electronic school enrollment certificate that will be included in the student’s physical file at the school and that shows the data received electronically from the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Civil Registry office.
The interoperability of the Ministry of Education and the JCE will begin with a pilot project, which will gradually be extended to all public schools in the pre-university system, Hernández has explained.
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Listin Diario
22 July 2024