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The Framework for Social Electronic Identification contains a description of these authentication
factors, and defines the concepts of biometry and biometric technology.
Digital Signature Infrastructures
The countries of the region have made progress towards consolidating their laws on the legal
status to electronic and digital documents and signatures. In this process, many of them have
adopted digital signature schemes, in other words public key infrastructures in which a State
organisation licenses providers of digital certificates.
However these public key infrastructures have legal scope only within each country’s borders.
This is not because of technological difficulties but due to the nature of national legal systems,
in which laws only apply within national boundaries, except to the extent covered by existing
international treaties.
In the case of digital signature recognition there is no agreement for mutual recognition among
countries, despite the laws of most countries acknowledging that possibility.
This makes it difficult to reach agreement on transnational applications, whether public
or private. Thus arose the idea of establishing a shared conceptual framework to delineate
minimum common denominators that would allow further agreement on digital signatures and
electronic authentication to be reached.
Purpose and scope of ibero-american social electronic identification
Chapter 1 of the Ibero-American Framework defines its founding objectives, principles and aims.
Its objectives include drawing up a generic framework of guiding principles, policies and
administrative procedures to lay the foundations for the future design of a scheme of mutual
recognition of electronic recognition devices across the countries of the region. A further
objective proposes the promotion of the use of electronic identification documentation
across the region, including electronic passports and national identity documents, in a way that
respects each country’s characteristics and peculiarities.
Likewise the Framework seeks to set down technical recommendations for governments in
connection with electronic authentication processes, particularly for the creation of processes
of remote user authentication over open networks.
The aims which inspired the Framework are those of the Ibero-American Charter on Electronic
Government, of which it forms part. Consequently, the aim of the Framework is to bring citizen
and government closer together, to recognise the right of the former to connect himself
electronically with the latter, and to facilitate access to and participation in the process of
government.
In relation to the issue of identification, the Framework expresses the aims of establishing a
framework of cross-border recognition of electronic identification and authentication devices;
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