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The RIC Project as a new paradigm in Brazilian civil identification
According to a report on global best practices by Portugal’s Knowledge Society Agency (1), issued
just after the turn of the century, various countries had launched studies into the improvement
and modernisation of services provided to the public.
The majority of these projects were focused on using technology to modernise public services.
Many of them are now in their second phase, involving the creation of “smart” services focused
on the citizen.
The implementation of a new form of identification was the starting-point for the modernisation
of interacting with those using public services, and in this context several countries have been
improving their systems of civil identification.
Along with this international trend for modernising documentation, Brazil supported the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, known as the Palermo Convention.
It was passed into law by Decree No. 5015 on 12 March 2004. Additional protocols relating to
the prevention of the smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air (passed into law by Decree
No. 5016 dated 12 March 2004) and the prevention, suppression and punishment of people
trafficking (especially of women and children) (passed into law by Decree No. 5017 dated 12
March 2004) anticipate the creation of mechanisms for the security, control and validation of
identity cards.
Article 12: Security and control of documents
Each State Party shall take such measures as may be necessary, within available means:
a) To ensure that travel or identity documents issued by it are of such quality that they cannot
easily be misused and cannot readily be falsified or unlawfully altered, replicated or issued;
and
b) To ensure the integrity and security of travel or identity documents issued by or on behalf of
the State Party and to prevent their unlawful creation, issuance and use.
Article 13 – Legitimacy and validity of documents
At the request of another State Party, a State Party shall, in accordance with its domestic law,
verify within a reasonable time the legitimacy and validity of travel or identity documents
issued or purported to have been issued in its name and suspected of being used for trafficking
in persons.
The purpose of civil identification is the identification of the population in a way that guarantees
their individuality in the range of acts involved in living within a society.
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