Digital Identity

  • Digital Economy Partnership Agreement

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    The Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) is a trade agreement focused on fostering collaboration in the digital economy. It was signed in June 2020 by Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore. DEPA aims to establish common frameworks and guidelines that promote seamless digital trade, innovation, and cooperation among member countries. Key features include: DEPA serves as… Read more

  • CSC White Paper – The Role of the Cloud Signature Consortium API in the New European Digital Identity Framework and Beyond

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    In this second paper in our two-part series, we explore the benefits of deploying the CSC API within the European digital identity framework. These benefits include interoperability between e-signing platforms and remote signature creation devices, enhanced security, ease of use, flexibility, and compliance with EU laws. The CSC API’s use extends beyond EU borders. It… Read more

  • The Potential for EBSI to be Implemented as a Verifiable, Cross-Border Credentialing Framework within Canada

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    Watch this interview with Prof. Alex Grech from 3CL Foundation to delve deeper into EBSI-CAN and their nine-month journey with the NGI Sargasso funding program, and learn about their valuable experiences and insights. In the Transatlantic project, the 3CL Foundation, EBSI, and Verifiable Credentialing in Canada are investigating the potential for EBSI to be implemented… Read more

  • Digitalization is Driving Adoption of Electronic Signature Services in the UK and EU

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    Increasingly, we are living in a digitally connected world. The global pandemic has had an incredible impact on fast-tracking organizations into digital transformation.Digitalization has gained enormous momentum, largely out of necessity, causing technology transformations years ahead of predicted schedules. Organizations and individuals, during the pandemic, were forced into navigating a remote working environment and it’s… Read more

  • Publication: Electronic Signatures: Enabling Trusted Digital Transformation

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    Trust lies at the foundation of all commercial and administrative transactions, which for centuries have relied upon the handwritten signature for authentication. As transactions are digitalized, the signatures that provide trust in them must also become electronic. The lack of trusted and legally recognized means of authenticating electronic transactions has forced a continued reliance on… Read more

  • EU and US High-level Officials Meet to Take Stock of Ongoing Cooperation Under the EU-US Trade and Technology Council

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    On 16 September 2024, high-level officials of the European Union and United States met to review how work has progressed under the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) since the ministerial meeting of April 2024 in Leuven, Belgium. The two sides took stock of the progress on joint work under way in various TTC working… Read more

  • In Wallet We Trust: Bypassing the Digital Wallets Payment Security for Free Shopping

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    Digital wallets are a new form of payment technology that provides a secure and convenient way of making contactless payments through smart devices. In this paper, we study the security of financial transactions made through digital wallets, focusing on the authentication, authorization, and access control security functions. We find that the digital payment ecosystem supports… Read more

  • The EU Digital Identity Wallet: a New Tool for Remote Signing with Qualified Electronic Signatures

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    The Cloud Signature Consortium welcomes changes to the eIDASRegulation that pave the way for a new and ambitious European digitalidentity framework. At its core is the European digital identity wallet.This will provide EU citizens and residents with a secure and convenient formof digital identification to access public and private sector services throughoutthe entire EU bloc.… Read more

  • +25 projects for EBSI use cases, active in +10 sectors

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    Together, they experiment with EBSI to make information easy to verify and almost impossible to fake. This for better mobility of our citizens, better quality of our products, and better economic development of our enterprises. Source: EBSI, European Commission Read more

  • African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Legal Texts and Policy Documents

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    The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is flagship project of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, a blueprint for attaining inclusive and sustainable development across the continent over the next 50 years. It aims to boost intra-African trade by providing a comprehensive and mutually beneficial trade agreement among the State Parties covering trade in goods and… Read more