Malaysian team clinches 2021 APEC Digital Prosperity Award for developing travel app | Malay Mail

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Malaysian team clinches 2021 APEC Digital Prosperity Award for developing travel app

by New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta at the APEC Ministerial Meeting she hosted along with New Zealand’s Minister of Agriculture for Trade and Export Growth Damien O’Connor on November 9.

With global vaccinations on full rollout to curb the spread of Covid-19, countries have begun to resume international travel and digital tools have been used to resolve some of the most pressing challenges such as vaccination records of travellers. In this case, Faisal explained that the APEC Traveller App uses simple QR codes where the certifying entity in each country can verify that a person has been vaccinated and tested as per the destination’s requirements, with identity documents then matched with those records using facial recognition.

“APEC themselves have admitted that they need to automate APEC lanes in a 2014 report and we would love to do the work,” he said. “We have been in limbo since, but MOSTI’s National Technology and Innovation Sandbox programme has been trying to get us reinstated with the Home Ministry.

 

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