Aminath Shauna, the Maldives' Technology Minister, has stated that digital identity cards will be issued within the next two years.

At a ceremony held on Tuesday to launch a new government service, 'gov.mv message',  Minister said that the technology has become an integral part of modern life, and the government hopes to embrace it to bring revolutionary change with it. 

According to Minister Shauna, the National Centre of Information Technology is aiming to remodel and turn government services into digital services in order to extend technology's role in bringing about development in the Maldives. "NCIT will begin offering digitalization services over the next two years, and that the administration would begin work on developing the required framework this year," stated the Minister.

Also, in keeping with the government's Strategic Action Plan, the minister announced the introduction of a digital ID card system over the following two years,  and E=Faas will be improved to become a secure system that delivers all forms of digital services according to the minister.

To make the internet a safer place for everyone, Minister said that that the administration is working on a "data protection and privacy" bill to safeguard all personal and private information kept online, as well as a "cybercrime" measure to make the internet a safer place for everyone.