eSignature
Xu Yedan   Apr 27.2016

Introduction

The eSignature or electronic signature is a tool that allows to sign documents in an electronic way.

The Barcelona city council has started off a common module that allows its staff, citizens, and companies, in some formalities, to sign in an electronic way electronic documents.The common modules of electronic administration, as the eSignature, are cross-cutting technological tools used by all the municipal information systems. That is, each tool is only developed one time and can be used for each application. For example, with the eSignature, it is possible to sign in an electronic way an electronic document, a formality or an electronic contract, among others, following the same procedure. That allows resources and time savings.

Reason to Be Selected

At present, it is used in eight different applications: the eSIGEF, the Electronic Board of Edicts, the licenses of eFilmacions, the eContracte, Autoritas (electronic report of inspections), the eGIOS, the corporate digital signature, the authentic copy and the ePlan (electronic report of planning permission).

As the citizen and companies is concerned, they can use the eSignature, to sign the document of registry request, in the Internet, for some formalities, the professional folder and soon, to sign eNotifications.Therefore, the tool speeds up the municipal internal management and facilitates the relationship between citizens, companies and the city council, always ensuring the same security level as the hadwritting sign.

Highlights:

So, the eSignature guarantees:

· he integrity of the document, the document can not be modified after being signed.

· the impossibility of the signature being falsified.

Details

The eSignature is useful for signing electronic documents.Therefore:

· It is a key element in the implantation of the different municipal electronic reports and for suppressing the use of paper in the procedure. The electronic documents can be fully transacted in a digital way, from its creation until the signature that validates them, that's why they don't need to be printed.

· It allows the reduction in the procedure deadline, since the reports or documents do not have to be transported physically, speeding up and simplifying the management.

· In order to speed up the procedure of documents coming from different systems of the municipal management, the corporate digital signature came into operation, at the beginning of 2010.

· A eSignature specific attention service has been started off with specialist technical support.

· To use the electronic eSignature, the users need to have a certified station, a card reader, whether a peripheral or one in the computer keyboard, and the card of signature T-Cat that it is issued by the
Catalan Agency of Certification (CATCert). Dated on September 2010, more than 1.100 certified T-CAT have been deployed and keyboards with card reader have been assigned.


· The eSignature continues in enlargement. It will be use, among others, in eNotifications, eDecret, eSubvencions, human resources management or to manage the professional folder.

· The application where the eSignature is more used at internal level is the eContract; from the 2.500 signatures made on June 2010, more than 1.500 came from the electronic report of contracting.

 



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Type:
Region: Europe
Scale: City
Field: Civilian
City: Barcelona