MiCultura and Public Registry sign electronic signature issue agreement

The Ministry of Culture and the Public Registry of Panama signed an agreement to issue a qualified electronic signature with the aim of strengthening inter-institutional partnership and cooperation with a view to ensuring the quality of the services that both institutions provide to the community.

The convention includes providing MiCultura with electronic and qualified signature services with up to 50 electronic certificates with advice and training to designated personnel.
MiCultura undertakes to promote the responsible use of electronic certificates and to take necessary measures to familiarize officials with the safety standards, restrictions and responsibilities that they have with them.

The electronic signature is a technological solution that adds to a cryptographic device (smart card or token usb), that allows to give legal value to electronic documents and transactions, by protecting the integrity of data, by authenticating the signatories and guaranteeing the non-repudiation of its authors. with this implementation MiCultura, complying with the IAGA's legalities, is integrated into the digital world, working to reduce the times that have been followed by the actions that are given to its citizens.

The agreement will have a duration of 2 years and includes management, validation and time-sealing services of electronic certificates.
The signatures were run by Carlos Aguilar Navarro, Minister of Culture and Bayardo A. Ortega, General Director of the Public Registry.

Carlos Aguilar Navarro, head of the cultural portfolio mentioned "that, in this newly born ministry, we have a vision to go to the avant-garde with an accelerated and secure step on the way to digitalizing digital government processes and processes for the benefit of citizens."

Bayardo A. Ortega, Director General of the Public Registry, noted that "we have been trying to contribute to development and improvements in technological and innovation matters to the qualification of the processes of different national institutions, this example should be expressed at many more national institutions."

The meeting was attended by Santiago Robleto, Director of electronic signature of the Public Registry, María Luisa Lindo, Director of Legal Advice at MiCultura and Jose Alvarezo-Torres, of the MiCultura Technology Section.