The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) represents one of the most ambitious initiatives for economic integration on the continent. As outlined in the Economic Report on Africa 2025 (ERA 2025), this agreement has the potential to reshape Africa’s trade landscape, fostering intra-African commerce, boosting industrialization, and enhancing global competitiveness. However, to realize its full… Read more
A bill designed to address access to both customer and business data, this legislation aims to regulate services that involve using information to determine and confirm facts about individuals. It also focuses on the recording, sharing, and maintaining of registers concerning apparatus located in streets. Additionally, the bill outlines the management and upkeep of registers… Read more
eIDAS 2.0 represents a significant upgrade to the European Union’s electronic Identification, Authentication, and Trust Services (eIDAS) regulation. This enhancement aims to refine and expand cross-border digital identity solutions and trust services, thereby allowing citizens and businesses to securely access a wide range of public and private services across the EU. By enhancing trust services… Read more
A technical tool to assess the reliability of digital services or networks, launched today, will facilitate the transfer of Electronic Transferable Records (ETR) between supply chain parties. Developed by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)’s Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) and the Digital Governance Council (DGC) of Canada, the new assessment framework enables an entity to… Read more
Digital identity plays a crucial role in fostering a secure, inclusive, and efficient digital transformation by enabling individuals and businesses to prove their identity and share verified information through digital means. The rising demand for digital services across the public and private sector, along with concerns about digital exclusion, cybersecurity threats, and the misuse of… Read more
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
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
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
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
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