Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior has unveiled plans for a new electronic national identification card (eID) that would integrate information from the digital citizens' certificate and the National Health Insurance Card.The eID plan, currently due to be introduced from 2018, is still only in the development stage. It will replace some 18.8 million paper cards currently in circulation, reported the Taipei Times.Interestingly, the ministry has said that any integration of information such as an e-mail address or bank, credit and e-card data into the chip is to be at the discretion of cardholders.The ministry plans to issue multifunctional anti-forgery eIDs to reduce issuance costs and improve the government's administrative effectiveness and the nation's international competitiveness.The front of the eID is to bear the cardholder's Chinese and Romanized names, as well as the holder's date of birth printed in both Gregorian calendar and Republic of China calendar year formats, the ministry said.Information on the eID's chip is to include gender; national identification number; a photograph; the names of the cardholder's parents and spouse; the holder's registered household address; and the dates of validity of that information.

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