Civil Status Organization
Civil Status Organization
Presentation
For
The Cooperation with
African Countries
Sponsored by
The United Nation Economic committee for Africa
The Civil Status Organization Sector(CSO) is
pleased and honored to welcome their
Excellencies attendance,
Extending special thanks to the Federal
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and Mr.
Abdoulie Janneh Executive Secretary of
Economic Committee for Africa for arranging
this meeting.
General / Moustafa Radi
Assistant Minister of Interior
Civil Status Organization Sector
Email : MMM.RADY@ GMAIL.COM
Presentation Scope
We have the pleasure to give a
short brief about CSO focusing on:
 What is the CSO?
 What could the CSO offer?
What is the CSO
The Civil Status Organization (CSO) was
established by law 143 at 1962 it is the only
Egyptian Organization responsible for providing
registration services for:
• National ID cards for Egyptian citizens
• Birth certificates
• Marriage certificates
• Death certificates
• Divorce certificates
Civil Status Organization
(History and Statistics)
• Since 1990 CSO started building a national database
(with disaster recovery) for civil information including
personal information that is continuously updated to
reflect any changes in the society.
• During 1997 around 10 issuing centers were established
and distributed all over Egypt for ID card services.
• In 1998 CSO ID card factory was established with the
latest state-of-the-art equipments and technology where
the first National ID card was produced according to the
international ISO standards and security measures with
a capacity of one million cards per month.
• All citizen data was collected since 1900
• - The old fully manual system was
automated using state of the art
database and equipment
• Automated all data to database 1990.
• With all events ( birth, death, marriage,
divorce and family tree.
Civil Status Organization
(History and Statistics)
• CSO card factory produced over 80 million blank
National ID cards in its facility with all security
elements selected to match the highest security
levels depending on our highly qualified experts
and know-how.
• About 70 million ID cards have been already
personalized and delivered to citizens.
Civil Status Organization
(System Components)
• 10 regional issuing ID card centers distributed all
over Egypt, will be increased to 15 centers by early
2011.
• Blank card production facility.
• About 600 computerized citizen service offices.
• Two high storage capacity mainframe system.
• High speed and secured network connected to all
the CSO centers.
Civil Status Organization
(The Specification & current security
features of the Egyptian National ID cards)
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Manufactured of pure polycarbonate material
Multi laser image
Rainbow printing
Guilloches
Custom screen
Variable fine lines
Micro text
ICI invisible constant image
Deliberate errors in design
2-D encrypted barcode
and More
Database of births since 1900
• 124,266,043 record
Database of deaths since 1900
• 40,089,903 record
Database of marriages since 1962
• 23,785,362 record
Database of divorce since 1962
• 3,859,169 record
Total of correction
• 14 ,943,983 record
Total National ID issued cards ( new
issuance and replacements)
• 70,026,268
Total National ID cards issued ( Male)
• 28,548,480
Total National ID cards issued (female)
• 22,922,748
Total birth certificates issued
• 94,371,787
Total Death certificates issued
• 1,305,392
Total Marry certificates issued
• 319,253
Total divorce certificates issued
• 65,951
Total Family registration certificates issued
• 1,190,309
Civil Status Organization
(Factory)
Civil Status Organization
(Factory)
Quality Control Section
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(Factory)
Security Design Section
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(Factory)
Pre Press Section
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(Factory)
Printing Process
Production Area
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(Factory)
Card Production
Fixing Process
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(Factory)
Card Production
Cutting Process
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(Factory)
Card Production
Lamination Process
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(Factory)
Card Production
Punching Process
Automatic Inspection
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(Factory)
Card Production
Visual Control
Hot Stamping
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(Factory)
Card Production
Card Laser Engraving
Card Boxing
Civil Status Organization
(Factory Physical Security)
The ID Card factory is fully secured utilizing the latest
international security measures and technology
Building external
& internal Security
Closed Circuit Television
(CCTV)
High security
Area /Production
facility /Restricted
Area
Locks and Keys
Inspection
Access Control
Alarm System
Physical Security
Civil Status Organization
(Factory Physical Security)
CCTV System installed with Cameras inside and outside
the factory building covering every room, hallway, and
production facilities with 24/7 recording capacity.
Civil Status Organization
(Factory Physical Security)
• Smoke detectors and fire sensors with alarms installed
allover the factory production area and connected to the
factory security office
• All cameras & sensors are connected to the main security
system viewed 24/7 by the factory officers on duty
Civil Status Organization
(Factory Physical Security)
• Access control system that prohibits unauthorized access
to production facilities
Civil Status Organization
(Factory Physical Security)
• Zoning system that can detect the security breach event
with the precise location and cause
• All factory staff records are checked by the internal
affairs and intelligence officers to assure their credentials
• Around the clock armed guards outside the factory
premises
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(Production Security)
• Very tight audit system is implemented to track the
factory materials for the full cycle of the card production
• Random check is periodically exercised for each
department to assure that all security policies are
implements and enforced
• Highly secured storage facilities (Safes) for finished cards
as well as work-on-progress
• Highly secured storage facilities for the card hologram
and special ink
• Specialized security design department for card secured
printing and hologram design
Civil Status Organization
(Upgrading to Smart)
Now the CSO is implementing its new upgraded
factory production line to be able to produce and
deliver electronic smart multi application cards with
the highest security levels from several materials
carrying the recent and updated security depending
on experience in the ID card field and also sharing
knowledge with relative international expert houses
Regional Centers
)525 Data Captures Units(400 Sites
CSO established a secured communication network covering the whole
country from delivery Offices, information centers and issuing centers
to Mainframes
Civil Status Organization
(10 Issue Centers )
Civil Status Organization
has the only one ID cards production factory
in the Middle East
capable of producing security Documents
of various types of raw plastic materials
such as
PVC - PetG - PecSEC –PC
For all African Countries and private sector
with capacity of 50 000 cards / day.
Civil Status Organization
(How can we cooperate)
CSO plant can provide all top secured printed documents as
well as secured printed ID blank cards including high
technology provided by:
1- Our high secured physical and logical environment.
2- State-of–the–art machinery, equipment and systems.
3- A well established infrastructure (power supply, UPS,
compressed air, voltage regulator, generators,
distributed hanged electric path bar, etc…).
4- Long experience in the field of security design,
highest security elements treatment and applications.
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(How can we cooperate)
5- Pioneers in card production using pure polycarbonate
material as well as various material such as PVC,
Polyester, PetG, etc…
6- Technology Support
7- Consultation and Know-How transfer in card
production and personalization
8- System Integration
9- Smart Card Technology for Contact and Contactless
Your Excellencies are
invited to visit the
production card facility to
view live production
Thank You
General Moustafa Radi
Assistant Minister of Interior
Civil Status Organization Sector
Email : MMM.RADY@ GMAIL.COM