Research Of The External Information Update System With The Functionalities Of Macao Smart ID Card

Getting into the new Digital Century, Information Technology IT, is one of essential elements that consisting of our live. With our society development and technology innovation, the level of IT utilization is increasing; the Smart ID Card for Citizen Identification becomes necessary. All countries are currently carrying out the upgrade of traditional ID card to Smart ID for their Citizen.At February of year 2007, all traditional ID cards have been changed to Smart ID Card for Macao SAR citizen. However, the Smart ID Card of Macao SAR are not commonly utilized, it is not fulfill the Macao citizen expectation from the original plan, so far it is only used for e-Gate, Special Personal information is limited, no other functionalies could be used for the Public Service.Because of the about, this paper, together with what I learnt that the theory of Information Management during the Master degree course (e-Government), showed the advance development of the Smart ID card from few countries, and stated the recently status of Macao Smart ID Card development, especially in the detailed analyses of the functionalities within Mainland China, Taiwan, HKSAR and Makassar for researching the Function limitation of Macao Smart ID Card. At the result, it is made an user requirement of a Private Information External Update System and showed its design and development in order to make up an"MEID Private Information External Update System"for the Macao smart ID card. Finally, the paper showed the essential of overall management of the Smart ID Card, the need of promoting the new functionalities of Smart ID Card that would increase the good performance of Smart ID Card, would contribute to Public Service and would support the development of E-Government and the innovation of Macao Public services in the near future.