CAIRO
Finance Minister Mohamed Maeet asserted that presidential Abdel Fattah el Sisi directives have been issued to enhance financial governance as part of “Digital Egypt” project in accordance with international standards to guarantee the maximum limit of accuracy and secure e-governmental dealings and financial operations.
In a statement issued by the Finance Ministry on Sunday, Maeet said the state is strongly moving ahead with the modernization and digitization of all sectors and bodies of the Finance Ministry, in addition to the national project of development of tax management and administration system to ease the digitization process, enhance the governance procedures and ease domestic and foreign trade movement, (MENA) reported.
There is currently a project for the development of licensing local and foreign e-signature certificate service providers (“CSP”), affiliated to the Finance Ministry, and complies with international standards to cope up with the gradual transformation to “Digital Egypt”.
As many as 51,000 certificates for e-signature have been issued for the governmental sector since 2009, the statement said, adding that the e-signature procedure is the biggest guarantee to secure data, ban hacking and forging operations.
Around 52,000 certificates for e-signature will be soon issued for staffers in the state’s administrative bodies before moving them to the New Administrative Capital, Maait added.
The electronic signatures will improve the efficiency of administrative work and the performance level of governmental services, he explained.
Egypt’s government considers that e-signature solutions are set to give the country a competitive edge within a new global trading system and also as cornerstone of electronic transactions, either governmental or administrative, as well as trade transactions.
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