The award to Brazil’s Digital Government Secretariat / Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services was for the Brazilian Identity Card (CIN). This, along with the National Civil Identification Service were established by legal decree in November 2023. The main objective was the modernisation of the current system of federal states, which operate civil registration and birth and death certificates, building a social civil identification platform.

Among the innovations incorporated in the CIN is the inclusion of a QR code, which presents the option of easy and reliable checking by public and private service units, in addition to the inclusion of a specific area for the MRZ, with the opportunity to use it as a travel document, as long as there is an agreement between countries.

The CIN can be issued in physical format, on paper or polycarbonate, and digitally through the federal GOV.BR application process. By March 2024, more than 4 million new CINs had been issued in 24 federal states. The national goal is to issue more than 24 million CINs by the end of this year.