EMERGING TRENDS and TECHNOLOGIES

Current and emerging ICAO Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD) specifications for passports, visas and identity cards are significant tools to enhance traveller identification management, passenger processing and related border security measures. This session will provide historical context to the development of Doc 9303 specifications and also highlight the latest ePassport deployments facilitating traveller identification and movement. The speakers will provide an update on important developments of Doc 9303 and showcase two new passport deployments.

Moderator: Christiane Der Markar, TRIP Officer, ICAO.

• Important Doc 9303 Updates (including 39794): R. Rajeshkumar, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Working Group 3 Convenor, Member ICAO TAG/TRIP/New Technologies Working Group (NTWG).
• New Dutch ePassport: Renee Ong de Jong, Research & Development Advisor Travel Documents, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Netherlands.
• New Indonesian ePassport: Karim Silmy, Director General, Immigration.
• Electronic Library Document Systems (FIELDS): Olga Arnese-Vessere, Head, Centre of Excellence for Combatting Document Fraud, European Union.; and Robert Frain, Policy Officer, Operational Support and Analysis Directorate.