Secure Online Electronic Civil Registration Using Cloud Computing: A Conceptual Framework

Population counting and distribution is vital to planning and resources allocation of the nation. The birth and death registration is a good starting point for population counting and archive. Accurate record of birth and death is vital to population estimate of a country. In this modern day of ICT and computer proliferation it is sadden that Nigeria and other African countries are still registering birth and death manually hence excluded from benefit accrue to proper birth and death registration. This work proposed real-time online birth and death registration system for Nigerian citizen. The choice of programming language shall be PHP (Hypertext preprocessor) for server-side scripting while action script and Macromedia-Flash for media content authoring and MySQL shall be used as the back-end database.