electronic signature

  • The Role of Base Added Attachments (BAA) in the Arab Digital Strategy: Enhancing Trade, Trade Finance, and Logistics

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    The Arab Digital Agenda (ADA) 2023–2033 serves as a comprehensive framework for digital transformation across the Arab region, addressing key economic sectors such as trade, trade finance, and logistics. The integration of Base Added Attachments (BAA) within this digital ecosystem is poised to revolutionize these sectors by enhancing efficiency, transparency, and security. Understanding Base Added… Read more

  • Public Key Infrastructure: Implementing High-Trust Electronic Signatures

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    As countries progress in their digital transformation journeys, establishing trust in digital interactions becomes increasingly vital. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a critical enabler of secure and trustworthy electronic transactions, constituting a key component of a country’s digital public infrastructure. This policy note focuses on how governments can effectively implement PKI at a national level—complementing… 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

  • 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

  • Roadmap for the Digitalization of Multimodal Data and Documents Exchange Along the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor, Using United Nations Legal Instruments and Standards

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    Recognizing the historical importance of digital technologies and noting the importance of digital transformation for enhancing the integration of landlocked developing countries in the global economy, creating new opportunities for trade and transport to reap the full benefits of green and sustainable economic development, Confirming the conclusions of the 70th session of the United Nations… Read more

  • Basics of Digital Signature Techniques and Trust Services

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    The eIDAS-regulation, which came fully into force in July 2016, provides a Europe wide mandatory legal framework for digital identities and trust services. It enables trustworthy digital transaction between public administrations, companies and citizens of the European Member States. In this context, eIDAS contains two main parts: digital identities and trust services. This publication focuses… Read more