Uganda hosts International Civil Aviation Authority Organization high level meeting

Uganda hosts International Civil Aviation Authority Organization high level meeting

By Our Reporter

Delegates from over 88 countries have convened in Uganda to attend the second international Civil Aviation Authority high level meeting on verification of travel documents.

Uganda as part of the international community is signatory to the Uganda Hosting the international civil aviation authority organization (ICAO).

Simon Peter Mundeyi, spokesperson ministry of Internal Affairs speaking to journalists. Courtesy photo.

The meeting composed of regulators from member’s states, discussing the verification of Electronic machine readable travel documents, public key infrastructure and the use of the ICAO public key directory.

The travel documents are mainly composed of passports and National Identity cards.

Uganda started implementing the e-passports in 2018 after most East African states started migrating from ordinary machine readable passports to the electronic passport machine readable travel documents.

According to the permanent secretary ministry of Health Lt Gen Joseph Musanyufu, Uganda plans to improve the e passport by adopting the polycarbonate bio-data page to match the standard recommended and agreed on by east African community member states.

Speaking at the meeting being held at Speke Resort Munyonyo ,the Chairperson ICAO Mario Wiesen from Luxembourg explained that e-passport are hard to forge by fraudsters, given the different security features such as the chips built in the data system.

He commended Uganda for offering to host the ICAO PKD workshop on verification of electronic machines readable travel documents, public key infrastructure and the use of the ICAO public key directorate (PKD).

According to Mario, the workshop will enable ICAO member states to learn more and understand how the public key directory PKD works.

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