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).

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

• Emmanuelle Ganne

  Chief of Digital, Trade and Frontier Technologies, WTO
• Hudson Mesquita

  Director of Digital ID, Digital Government Secretary, Brazil
• Solomon Richardson

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

  Director General of the Austria Secure Information Technology Center (A-SIT) Austria
• Idah Z. Pswarayi-Riddihough

  Director of Strategy and Operations and Global Director Digital Use World Bank
• Luca Castellani

  Legal Officer UNCITRAL
• Chistopher Tullis

  Senior Digital Specialist World Bank
• Nay Constantine

  Digital Specialist World Bank