Azerbaijani mobile e-signature to be presented at world congress
By Nigar Orujova
Azerbaijan will present the mobile ID project "ASAN Imza" at the ninth world congress on electronic identification, "World e-ID Congress", head of Estonia-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and Best Solutions company president, Yana Krimpe, said.
The congress will be held on September 25-27 in the exhibition complex Acropolis Convention Centre in Nice, France.
According to Krimpe, more than 400 delegates from 60 countries and 2,500 participants from all over the world will attend the congress.
"ASAN Imza" will be presented at the session "World's National e-ID programs", dedicated to the latest advances in the development and implementation of projects for mobile and electronic identification in the world, Krimpe said.
This year, "World Smart Week" brings together an exhibition and four conferences, including NFC World Congress, World e-ID Congress, M2M Innovation World Congress and Chip-to-Cloud Security Forum.
Best Solutions, a fast growing IT services company and solutions provider active in the field of information and communication technologies in Azerbaijan, has been chosen as an entity to work on the technical building of the mobile e-signature platform.
ASAN Imza technology allows using a mobile phone as a secure electronic identity card. Like any other technology based on the use of SMART-cards and e-signatures, it can be used to provide secure access to e-services and to certify documents with digital signatures. Unlike other technologies, it does not require a card reader.
The system is based on a special Sim-card called "Asan Imza", which a user can obtain from the mobile operator. The card keeps the private access keys and applications for identification and signatures.
According to Krimpe, "ASAN Imza" is the first step towards the creation in Azerbaijan of a "ubiquitous government", which is a part of the "electronic government".
The certificate for the e-signature "Asan Imza" is issued by the certification service center "ASAN" of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Taxes in cooperation with ASAN Service and the ICT Ministry.
In May, Krimpe noted an interest of representatives from major companies of France, Belgium, Morocco and India in the Azerbaijani experience in the use of mobile e-signatures.
Currently, mobile e-signature systems are used in six countries. However, Azerbaijan is implementing this project based on a modern model which has not been used elsewhere before, Krimpe said.
The Ministry of Taxes started applying mobile digital signature services in the country for the first time in early May.
The new platform of the mobile signature center is integrated with the platforms of all the three cellular operators of Azerbaijan.
A mobile digital signature may be used on personal and portable computers as well as tablet PCs.