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According to a recent report BCC Research, the average annual growth rate of the global market of biometrics in the period of 2015-2020. Could reach 22.7%.
By 2020, this market will grow to huge numbers 41.5 billion. Dollars compared to about 14.9 billion. Dollars in 2014.

BCC Research believes that the distribution methods of fingerprint identification will be the main driver of the market. The report notes that the mechanism of facial recognition (facial recognition) occupies a particularly important place. This is followed by authentication signature and picture palm. As for the driving factor of growth of the total market, overall results of the study indicate that the governments of many countries introduced mandatory use of biometric identification in the public sector, and there is a growing overall market activity of commercial services.

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Electronic passport – a plastic card with a photo of a citizen of the country and with a chip, which recorded details of the owner, and can be recorded fingerprints and digital signatures, from which, if desired, can be dispensed with. The passport containsinformation about nationality, membership of a particular religion or place of residence.Also on the plastic card is no data on the marital status of the citizen – they are on the chip.

Polygraph “Ukraine”, which is engaged in manufacturing of Ukrainian new passports, has published on its website on 17 signs of the authenticity of the document. Check 17 points each can accomplish alone, without the help of special tools and expert.

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Ukraine could use the experience of Israel in building an innovative economy based on start-ups, through the development of technical professions and science of teaching children from an early age. Such an opinion was expressed by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Dan Shechtman at a press conference in UNIAN.

According Shechtman, Israel has successfully functioning program to establish kindergartens with a scientific bias in which children are introduced to science in the age of five. Also, the Nobel laureate said that Israel operates more than 5,000 start-ups that have been opened thanks to the graduates of technical specialties.

According to the ambassador of Israel Eliava Belotserkovsky, who attended the press conference, Ukraine is in a difficult situation, and Israel is ready to support our country both financially and technically, and advisory.

Recall that according to the report “Global Report on the development of information technologies – 2015” compiled by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Ukraine ranked 71 th in the world in terms of information and communication technologies (ICT), having risen over the year by 10 positions compared to the previous year (in 2014 in the ranking of Ukraine took 81 th place). In the formation of the organization rating calculated Networked Readiness Index, which characterizes the level of ICT development in 143 countries.

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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko during a meeting with journalists 01.24.2016 underlined that Ukraine will pay special attention to the development of the IT industry, by promising that IT professionals will be under his “personal protection”.

“If you have specifically had problems, subscribe, prove that they were unjust, and you will have my defense,” – he said.

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For the 2015 year Ukraine has risen by 17 positions in the ranking of Global Services Location Index, which is a consulting A.T Kearney. The previous version of the rating published in autumn 2014. In this study, countries are ranked by estimated in three categories: financial attractiveness, specialist skills and availability of labor and business environment.Terms of capitalization of the sector in a separate environment, in turn, determine the six main indicators: R & D-enviroment, IT- infrastructure, human capital, supporting the development of IT, the business environment, laws and legal environment.

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At the first stage the passport will be issued free of charge to citizens who have reached the age of 16 and receive the document for the first time. And to be able to change the old passport for an ID-card, you need to parliament adopted the government of the bill №3224. In the civil service are hoping that parliament will consider it in January-February. Those who will be contacting in case of loss or damage to passports, temporarily will give the old version.

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The guest –is  the the expert on the issues of an electronic government, executive director  of the company “UnIT” YEVGEN LISNYAK.

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