Event Details
The Intellectual Property Rights committee of the Chamber is holding a webinar entitled: Going Digital: Use of Digital Signatures and Public Key Infrastructure on 22 June from 10:00 - 11:30 AM via Zoom.
The Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations was designed to make electronic contracting legally enforceable and was intended to settle legal doubts about whether electronic forms of contracting were lawful. It recognizes electronic documents as the legal equivalent of paper documents, and electronic signatures as the legal equivalent of handwritten signatures.
The Philippine National Public Key Infrastructure (PNPKI) on the other hand, fosters trust in the government by ensuring secure and reliable online transactions especially in the midst of the health crisis. The PNPKI has numerous advantages that the government stands to benefit from as it improves the delivery of their services to their constituents in the online realm. These advantages include the improvement of verifiable identification of an individual or entity, permeation of integrity-sufficient digital certificates for its acceptance as evidence in the court of law, and provision of significant protection against unauthorized access of common communications.
