The Canadian Passport Office is an example of a government agency leveraging
Web services to exchange information in real-time to combat terrorism and
other illicit uses of fraudulently obtained passports.
The agency selected IT consulting firm Pentelar and Sybase, Inc. technologies
to electronically authenticate identity document data through the use of Web
services and ebXML. Identification tasks performed across 10 provinces and
three territories previously handled by physical document inspection, are now
conducted in real-time with absolute security and reliability.
This session will discuss this successful pilot project and highlight the
ebXML capabilities that enable the Canadian Passport Office to address
real-time information exchange.
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