The International Organisation for Migration is currently working on introducing a Regional Biometric Data Exchange Solution (RBDES) to countries around the world.The policy framework will help countries to address irregular migration, which can take the form of human trafficking and migrant smuggling, and other transnational crimes, senior staff say.Law enforcement agencies will be able to exchange biometrics data in a fast and secure way to verify the identities of travellers at borders, Donato Colucci, Senior Regional Immigration and Border Management Specialist, International Organisation for Migration told GovInsiderAsia.He describes RBDES as “a network of people working in their own countries and interconnected through a web-based platform”. However, it does not store biometrics data – it merely allows the exchange of said data, he emphasises.”[RBDES] is not the final solution to the problem, but definitely will support and facilitate exchange of information between countries,” he says. According to a briefing on this framework, there are no solutions currently that allow for the secure exchange of biometric data specifically for migration and border management purposes.This framework could help governments in Southeast Asia, in particular, to address “the numbers of identity and travel document fraud that happen in this region”, according to Colucci. “Maybe the responses of the agencies [in this region] are not effective, so they may have addressed only some parts of the border management systems without addressing comprehensively,” he explains. “We may have a lot of technology but not capacity, or we may have capacity without technology.”
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