Village Disability Registers and ID Smart Cards for Persons With Disabilities & School

Diverse needs regsiters with smart cards

What are Disability ID SMART Cards?

• Machine readable smart cards

• Applications –Multipurpose

• Advantages

• OCR-Java applications

• Bio metric recognition

VDR SMART CARD FEATURES• Visual identity application• Plastic card use• Magnetic strip• Visual data also available in machine

readable form• Decentralized and centralized update of data• Muti user system of smart cards• Electro memory card• Security-vendor specific

SMART CARD

Processor cards Memory based application)

Credit card size

Cards can interface with a computer or card reader

Operating system provides interchange of data at state and district levels with vendor specific password protection

Disability ID Smart card devices

VDR registration with OCR sheets

Data converted into spread sheet and smart cards

Card reader with software at DDWO office at district level with password for updates

OCR sheet sent to compute center main register remains at GP office)

Card reader or computer with digital code for other users without password of source file

VDR and SDR uses

Data base on disability

Red and blue cards for identification of persons for social security

Needs assessment at Gram panchyath level for planning rehabilitation services , budgets and inclusion into mainstream development

School Diverse needs registers1.Identication of diverse needs of learners by adopting a child centered, rights based educational view in inclusion relevant to Indian context2.Building a school support system without labeling children by using disability labels3.Accurate,retrivable digitized data base development for holistic monitoring the inclusion of all children with diverse needs with password protection

Operating systems and mechanism

Cost

Source of funding

TIME FRAME

• 36 months• 1st quarter training of MRW,VRW and volunteers• 2nd Quarter-Public awareness on VDR and smart cards• 3rd quarter-VDR with ICR registration• 4th Quarter-Computerization of data base• 5th quarter-issue of smart cards• 6th and 7th quarter-Monitoring• 8th quarter-second round registration for those who were

absent• 9th and 10th Spread sheet data loaded on net• Data flow on new registration on OCR and net once in a year

for updates

Challenges to overcome in VDR

Challenges to overcome in VDR-Hearing Disabled

• This group wanted all information presented visually in addition to acoustic output. They also wanted all public telephones to have text telephony capability with the smart card giving access to the keyboard.

• In the foreseeable future, there are three areas of smart card usage where the customer is expected to operate a self-service terminal, financial transactions (e.g. a cash dispenser), telecommunications (e.g. a public telephone) and public transport (e.g. a ticket selling machine). The following sections concentrate on these examples.

Challenges to overcome in VDR- Visually Disabled

• This group indicated a strong desire for the design of input devices, their location, layout of the terminal and function to be standardized. It should be possible to differentiate cards by touch; this might mean a notch if there is no embossing. They thought that card readers should all accept the cards in the same orientation. Also they would like keypads to provide tactile feedback. Finding locks and using keys was a problem for some of this group, and they felt that contactless smart cards could have significant benefit for them in this application. Another area in which visually disabled users thought that contactless smart cards could assist them was in turning on audible signals, and increasing the crossing time, at light-controlled pedestrian crossings.

Challenges to overcome in VDR- Intellectually Disabled

• This group would like communication to be by menus which should be based on pictures in combination with spoken text, since many people with an intellectual disability cannot read or write. Many of those interviewed said that they had difficulty in remembering a PIN and found it almost impossible to keep it a secret; they expressed a preference for identification by fingerprint. On an ATM, it was suggested that the terminal should display what the balance in the account would be if the amount requested was withdrawn. On a telephone, they would find it useful to have a card with some telephone numbers pre-programmed.

Data management and Card readers –District levelCard readers made available at the district level in the officer in charge of disability welfare

Training Is provided under VDR to officers at district level

Password protection with option of edit data in case of death or additional disability

Parent data with the state level office responsible for disability affairs or in the computer information center set up by the government

Card reading access available to the government departments

Training module is available for inclusion in the existing training programmes

NO PERMISSION FO DATA Editing

Civil societies /NGOs can also access card readers with permission from the government

Training module is available for inclusion in the existing training programmes

NO PERMISSION FO DATA Editing