©2003 DataCard Corporation,
All rights reserved
Requirements:
The Land Transportation
Office of the Philippine
Government wanted to
reduce the 3 to 9 months
time line required for the
processing of the national
driver’s license.
In addition, the option to
add security features to
the card would be an
added benefit for the
government.
Solution:
•Omega Computer Corp.,
the Datacard distributor
in the Philippines,
developedadecentralized
driver license issuance
solution to reduce
turnaround time for card
issuance.
•While utilizing the
existing installations of
the Datacard
ImageCardII/II+ &
ImageCardIII,
Datacard introduced
ImageCardIV to
produce the full color
cards including a high-
security holographic
topcoat.
•The cards are issued at
the local Land
Transportation Offices
and delivered to the
driver in 15 minutes.
The Competitive Edge:
The LTO received praise
from the Philippine
Government for
introducing an innovative
instant issuance driver’s
license program.
Datacard’s capacity to
provide the driver licenses
with a high security
holographic overlay
secured the
implementation of the
project.
Since 1984, the Land
Transportation Office
(LTO) of the Philippine
Government has issued
driver licenses that are
laminated in a pouch.
In 1994, Omega Computer
Corp., the Datacard
distributor in the
Philippines, introduced
Datacard’s ImageCard
product line and changed
the substrate of the card
to PVC.
The cards were still issued
from a centralized location
at the LTO head office in
Quezon City. Due to the
centralized processing of
the driver licenses,
turnaround time was as
long as nine months. This
was considered too long.
Innovative Custom
Solutions
In the year 2000 Omega
Computer Corp. developed
a decentralized driver
license issuance program.
In the initial phase,
ImageCard II & III systems
were installed in the most
critical high volume
locations of the LTO.
Then, ImageCard IV
systems were installed in
more locations. Over 160
sites are expected to offer
instant issuance driver
licenses using Datacard
ImageCard printers by
June 2002.
The results are
phenomenal. Driver
licenses are issued and
delivered to drivers in 15
minutes or less.
There is limited space at
some of the Land
Transportation Offices
making it difficult to add
an area for driver license
issuance. Omega
Computer Corp. is now
installing Kiosks at
shopping malls to test
whether this environment
will be an effective
solution for drivers license
renewals.
Secure Card Issuance
To address the high-
security concern,
Datacard introduced a
holographic overlay, which
is applied to the PVC
cards issued on the
ImageCard systems. The
holographic topcoat is an
optical variable device that
makes the card difficult to
forge or alter; thereby,
adding high level security.
Philippine Drivers
License
Quote from President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
On July 23, 2001, during
the State of the Nation
Address, President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo said “I
would like to congratulate
the Land Transportation
Office for coming up with
a system that can produce
a drivers license in 30
minutes.”
The Philippines Launch an Instant
Issuance Driver’s License Program
