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Requirements: 

The Government of Malaysia 
required a Government 
Multipurpose Card (GMPC). This 
smart card will support multiple 
government and payment 
applications and provide a 
convenient platform for future 
applications. 
 

Solution: 

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Regional data is transferred from 
various government agencies to a 
centralized platform. 

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The multi-application GMPC is 
personalized on the Datacard® 
9000 Series card personalization 
system. 

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The Datacard® Card System 
Manager (CSM) 2000 provides a 
centralized network solution for 
managing their card issuance 
operation. 

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A customized solution was 
developed to integrate the front-
end customer systems to obtain 
application information for card 
personalization. 

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An inventory management 
system tailored to meet the 
business and operation needs of 
the personalization center was 
implemented. 

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A custom holographic with the 
Malaysian national flower image 
was developed as a registered 
three-dimensional secure overlay 
to prevent duplication. 

 

The Competitive Edge: 

Datacard-IDT provided technical and 
management expertise in order to 
define the application design and 
development, hardware 
customization and installation, 
preparation of procedures and 
documentation while conducting the 
appropriate training courses. DCIDT 
also provided consultancy to design 
the Personalization Center and was  
awarded the contract to operate the 
Personalization Center during the 
Pilot phase of the project 
 

 

 

Malaysia is issuing the world’s 
first government multi-
application smart cards; 
Government Multipurpose Card 
(GMPC). The project is one of 
seven flagship applications 
launched by the Malaysian 
Government. The long-term 
objectives of developing such 
applications supports Malaysia's 
goal to transform and establish 
processes using the latest 
cutting-edge technologies  to 
support the current technological 
infrastructure and social system. 

 

Multipurpose Card 

 

The Malaysian GMPC entails 
the development of a single 
smart card that will support the 
initial government and payment 
applications and provide a 
convenient platform for 
additional applications in the 
future. The preliminary 
applications include the National 
ID, driver license, immigration 
and health information.  

 

A payment application will be 
developed in parallel to contain 
the E-cash, debit card and ATM 
card . Both cards are to be 
developed based on a single 
common technology platform to 
enable later migration of all 
applications onto a single card. 

 

Successful Partnership 

 

A joint venture partner 
Datacard-IDT (DCIDT) was 
selected to provide 
personalization systems and 
support for the project. DCIDT  
has unsurpassed experience in 
serving customers providing 
customized solutions to meet 
diversified business needs to the 
government. 

 

 
 
Personalization Center 

 

The personalization center 
provides a secure environment 
for the personalization of the 
GMPC, together with data 
integrity and storage of secure 
consumables. The center 
guarantees a production rate of 
12,000 cards per day with a 
seven working day timeframe 
for the production of the first 
two million cards. 

 

The GMPC personalization 
center is equipped with many 
Datacard

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 9000 Series centrally 

managed by the Datacard

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 Card 

System Manager (CSM) 2000 to 
produce the GMPC.   

 

DCIDT developed a customized 
system that provides 
handshaking activity with the 
back office server and allows the 
consolidation of personal data 
for each application and controls 
that only cards that have been 
successfully personalized and 
QC are packed and issued. The 
system takes into consideration 
remade and rejected cards, 
separator cards and other 
operational requirements. The 
card management system is able 
to track each GMPC card that 
leaves the personalization enter 
and provides total control for the 
government issuer.

 

Government Solutions: Malaysia Issues First 
Multi-application Government Card 

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