Past Event

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Electronic Signatures, Public Key Infrastructure, and Digital Trust

As governments and businesses are shifting to digital modes of service delivery, ensuring trust in electronic transactions is crucial. Electronic signatures (e-signatures) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) play a foundational role in securing digital interactions, providing authentication, integrity, and legal recognition for transactions in the digital world. As such, they are an essential part of a country’s digital public infrastructure (DPI).

As governments and businesses are shifting to digital modes of service delivery, ensuring trust in electronic transactions is crucial. Electronic signatures (e-signatures) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) play a foundational role in securing digital interactions, providing authentication, integrity, and legal recognition for transactions in the digital world. As such, they are an essential part of a country’s digital public infrastructure (DPI).

This webinar will provide an overview of the key policy, legal, and technical considerations for implementing high-trust e-signatures and PKI as DPI. The specific objectives are as follows:

  • Clarify the role of PKI and e-signatures in securing digital transactions

  • Provide practical insights into the operational implementation of trust services

  • Showcase country experiences, governance models, and real-world deployment

  • Facilitate dialogue on cross-border recognition and next steps for global trust frameworks

  • We also encourage you to explore the two papers introduced during the session, which are publicly available on the World Bank’s Open Knowledge Repository:
 

WHEN: May 13, 2025

WHERE: Virtual

Emmanuelle_Ganne

Emmanuelle Ganne

Chief of Digital, Trade and Frontier Technologies, WTO

Hudson_Mesquita

Hudson Mesquita

Director of Digital ID, Digital Government Secretary, Brazil

Solomon_Richardson

Solomon Richardson

Head of the Technical Services Department within the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Ghana

Herbert_Lietold

Herbert Lietold

Director General of the Austria Secure Information Technology Center (A-SIT) Austria

Idah_Pswarayi-Riddihough

Idah Z. Pswarayi-Riddihough

Director of Strategy and Operations and Global Director Digital Use World Bank

Luca_Castellini

Luca Castellani

Legal Officer UNCITRAL

Christopher_Tullis

Chistopher Tullis

Senior Digital Specialist World Bank

Nay_Constantine

Nay Constantine

Digital Specialist World Bank

Date: May 13, 2025

Time: 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM ET

Location: online