FCI EDB: Traveling without Covid-19 (Mobile Application)

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• Mobile apps
• COVID-19 coronavirus tests
• COVID-19 antibody tests

2022: Using Smart ID Engine

Developed by the Fund for Digital Initiatives of the Eurasian Development Bank, the Travel Without COVID-2019 application uses AI to safely and correctly enter user data. Smart Engines announced this on June 24, 2022.

Automatic recognition of passports of citizens of the EAEU + is implemented on the basis of technologies of the Russian company Smart Engines and is carried out on the user's mobile device without the need to enter data manually. All personal information of users is not transferred to third-party services in any form. This allows you to fulfill the security requirements for the processing of personal data for all countries of the project participants.

The Travel without Covid-19 application allows you to open borders between countries during the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to this digital solution, citizens, Russia,, Armenia, and Belarus Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan can Azerbaijan easily undergo sanitary formalities when crossing the border, find the nearest laboratories for testing for Covid-19, and employees of authorized services can be sure of the reliability of the test results provided to them.

As you know, tourist the industry suffered heavy losses in 2 covid years. According to a report by the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), international tourism and closely related sectors suffered losses of 2.4 trillion in 2020. And dollars according to preliminary estimates by the World Tourism Organization UNCTAD, the collapse in the international due tourism to the coronavirus pandemic led to the loss of more than $4 trillion in the world GDP in 2020 and 2021.

Not least, such losses were associated with the unprepared tourism market for digitalization, which has become an invariable satellite of the pandemic. Countries that managed to protect themselves with mass vaccination were unable to promptly restore tourist potential due to the inability to provide border sanitary control and the lack of tools to confirm the authenticity of PCR tests. For the countries of the EAEU + region, this problem was solved after the introduction of the Travel without Covid-19 application.

When crossing the border of the states participating in the project, it is necessary to show a QR code with the results of the analysis in the appendix to an authorized employee who has the right to request the results of the PCR test in accordance with national regulation.

To load data into the application, the user must specify the information of the document on which the border will intersect. To avoid unnecessary time wasting on manual data entry, document recognition is performed automatically thanks to the Smart Engines solution built into the Travel without Covid-19 application. Smart ID Engine technology searches and recognizes text in documents, including the machine-readable area (if any), on the spread or individual pages of the passport, and also searches for a photo of the document owner. The full cycle of passport recognition in the video stream, starting from the "display" to the camera and ending with the result, averages 0.75-1 second.