{"id":218373,"date":"2019-06-11T04:31:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=218373"},"modified":"2019-06-11T04:31:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:31:42","slug":"natl-id-system-test-run-set-in-4th-quarter-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/11\/natl-id-system-test-run-set-in-4th-quarter-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat\u2019l ID system test run set in 4th quarter of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_175703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175703\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-ID-system.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-175703\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-ID-system.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-ID-system.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-ID-system-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-ID-system-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-ID-system-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-ID-system-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Aug. 6, 2018, Duterte signed Republic Act 11055 creating PhilSys or the National ID, which serves as a single official identification card for all citizens and resident aliens of the Philippines. (Photo: Ginno Alcantara\/Philippine Canadian Inquirer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The government is set to pilot test the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) or national ID system from September to December this year, Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be a pilot testing which will run from September to December 2019 to register a substantial number of Filipinos nationwide,&#8221; Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia and newly-appointed National Statistician Dennis S. Mapa gave updates on the PhilSys implementation during the 38th Cabinet meeting in Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday (June 10).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the end of the President\u2019s term in 2022, 107 million Filipinos are targeted to be registered,&#8221; Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) earlier said in a House oversight committee hearing that it will be targeting an initial batch of about six million individuals for the PhilSys.<\/p>\n<p>The PhilSys is one of the social protection programs agreed upon by economic managers to be implemented faster.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo R. Duterte, in earlier reports, ordered the best and safest approach in the implementation of the PhilSys amid security concerns from various groups.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 6, 2018, Duterte signed Republic Act 11055 creating PhilSys or the National ID, which serves as a single official identification card for all citizens and resident aliens of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, the national ID shall contain a person\u2019s PhilSys number, full name, gender, blood type, place of birth, date of birth, marital status (optional), mobile number (optional), address, front facing photo, full set of fingerprints and iris scan.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte earlier said the PhilSys will boost his administration drive against \u201csocial menaces of poverty, corruption, and criminal issues, as well as terrorism and violent extremism\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The government is set to pilot test the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) or national ID system from September to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":175703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ej-roque","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218374,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218373\/revisions\/218374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}