Digital Civil Registry

The project for the interconnection and modernization of civil registration, identity, and vital statistics processes aims to interconnect and modernize the processes of civil identification, civil status registration, and the generation of base information for vital statistics by strengthening institutions (interconnection between the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), National Civil Identification Directorate (DNIC), and the General Directorate of Civil Status Registry (DGREC)) and the electronic issuance of new certificates, indexing, and digitization of existing records.

This project corresponds to the Civil Status Registry Management System (SGREC), which consists of automating the processes related to the registration of acts and facts linked to the civil status of individuals and the issuance of certificate copies. The system includes interconnection with other systems through the Electronic Government Platform. The project scope includes system development and infrastructure management (communications, security, backup, among others).

Additionally, within the project, the SGREC Web (Digital Certificates on the Internet) was implemented, whose objective is to simplify the procedure for requesting and issuing birth, acknowledgment, marriage, divorce abroad, and death certificates. The incorporation of this system allows citizens to obtain certificates easily, quickly, simply, and free of charge in digital format, which have the same validity as paper-format certificates. During the document issuance process, the citizen can directly download the certificate from any device or request that the document be sent to their email account.

 The validity of each document is based on the digital signature, which guarantees the legitimacy of the document issuance and leaves a record of the issuer. Additionally, it certifies that the document has not been altered by external agents outside the civil registry.

Digital Patrols

Digital Patrols is a mobile application installed on authorized Android devices that allows police officers to document relevant activities or events during their patrol shift.

The main functionalities include:

• Real-time patrol tracking: The person in charge of leading the patrol indicates the start and end of the patrol from their application. During the patrol, the movement of the mobile device can be monitored through a web application accessible from the institution.
• Police reports: This feature allows reporting suspicious incidents or traffic accidents by sending a photo if required along with the coordinates of the event.
• Domestic violence: Allows reporting cases of domestic violence for follow-up via the back-office application.
• Personal or vehicle data lookup: Through OCR reading (a mechanism to extract text from a photo to a document), it allows police officers to determine if the owner of an identity document has an arrest warrant or, in the case of vehicles, a theft report.

This application helps improve the quality of service to citizens and provides the institution (PNC) with a tool to streamline their processes during patrol shifts.

Single Registry of State Trials

The general objective of the information system is to identify, classify, and quantify all legal cases involving the State, whether as plaintiff, defendant, third party, guarantor, among other roles.

It is a collaborative tool in which various agencies of the Uruguayan State participate, registering legal cases and their associated data (hearings, precautionary measures, rulings, economic data), managing a shared calendar, and an alert system.

The project is led by the Ministry of Education and Culture and financed by the Budget Management Strengthening Program of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.