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identification across the Ibero-American region.
Accordingly it promotes the establishment of agreements on mutual recognition linked to
processes of electronic identification of individuals in physical or virtual settings.
The Framework advocates discussion, based on its contents, of the legal and technical aspects
needed for concluding information exchange agreements, for ensuring the interoperability of
systems, and for establishing common technological standards among Ibero-American countries.
Furthermore, it promotes the sharing of each country’s experience of the implementation
of electronic identity documents, electronic passports and any other means of digital
authentication.
Finally, in a significant step towards the strengthening of electronic commerce and digital
government, the Framework states that it shall form a basis of understanding for Ibero-
American States to enter into agreements for the mutual recognition of digital certificates,
setting the foundations for future agreements that permit the coordination of digital signature
infrastructures across the region.
Conclusions
We have seen that the countries of the region are rolling out public policies designed to achieve
full digital inclusion for their citizens. The Ibero-American Framework of Social Electronic
Identification is a further step towards achieving this goal. For our countries, it is a starting point
for moving forward in a coordinated and structured manner in a subject of great importance for
the effective implementation of social policy: the identification of individuals.
However the Framework also represents a major advance in the introduction of electronic
government initiatives across the region, and for the effective implementation of the Ibero-
American Charter on Electronic Government.
In this regard, the Framework will allow us to make progress in the recognition of electronic
and digital signatures, aiding the development of open government and electronic commerce.
If we make progress towards closing the digital gap, and towards establishing electronic
government, our countries will, put briefly, be in a position to recognise the right of their
inhabitants to transact electronically with their governments.
We must however reiterate certain ideas that we have set out at other times during this Congress
of the Latin American Centre for Development Administration (CLAD) regarding the safeguards
that must be provided in order for the implementation of these projects to be successful.
We have mentioned that the difficulties in implementation are not related to the technology,
which is already sufficiently developed. Nor is the problem the question of international standards,
which have already been developed and accepted. As with every project that involves introducing
information and communication technology to the administration of government, projects aimed
at building a biometric database or replacing existing identity documents with electronic ones
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