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how to facilitate remote access to the services rendered by the Public Administration, are issues
related to a proper electronic identification of individuals.
This electronic identification is necessary for the access to IT-based systems, e-government and
e-commerce applications, but also for the execution of social policies. In addition to this use, modern
identity documents, basically passports and national documents, are using electronic identification
means, what demands considering that even in the instances of in person identification, information
and communications technologies attain a relevant role.
Consequently, it is mandatory to have a conceptual framework in the region referred to social
electronic identification, which can be taken as a guideline by our countries for individuals’
identification and electronic authentication, a basic element for the full exercise of rights and an
effective implementation of public polices for social inclusion.
In Section II of this presentation, the antecedents on which this Framework is supported, basically the
recommendations resulting from the ministers meetings in 2010 and the Ibero American Charter on
E-Government approved 2007 are shown.
In Section III there is a list of the considerations that motivate the current Framework. The main juridical
and technological concepts involved in individuals’ identification and electronic authentication are
described.
In Section IV the conclusions, mentioning the challenges that our countries are facing as regards
individuals’ identification and possible roads to follow, are presented..
Finally, the “Framework for the Ibero American Social Electronic Identification”, which was considered
and discussed by the representatives of the States of this region is included.
II. Antecedents
Along 2010, an extensive agenda of meetings of the Ibero American Summit of Heads of State and
of Governments was developed. Sectorial ministers meetings, that involved the participation of
representatives of the Agricultural, Health, Labour, Public Administration and Reform of the State,
Tourism, Education, Childhood and Adolescence, Justice, Presidency, Housing and Urban Planning
fields were held. Such activities concluded in the XX Ibero American Summit, which issued the
Declaration of Mar del Plata “Education for Social Inclusion”.
In all the sectorial ministerial meetings, in different ways, the issue of social inclusion was dealt with
as the axis of the region public policies. Specially in the XIII Meeting of the Ibero American Network
of Ministers of the Presidency and Equivalent (RIMPE), held in Lisbon, Portugal, the issue of Citizen
Participation in the era of e-government was discussed. In that meeting the countries agreed that
the “goals of e-government have to go further than mere ethics and efficiency of the administration
processes, towards forms that allow social, political and economical changes, focused on human
development, equal opportunities and social justice.”
Lisbon Declaration
The XIII Meeting of the Ibero American Network of Ministers of the Presidency and Equivalent
(RIMPE), dealt with Citizen Participation in the area of E-government: Education for Citizens and
Digital Inclusion. The ministers agreed on the cooperation, information and coordination in the
E-government area within the Ibero American context. Likewise, the gathering of information on
programs, actions and good practices in the area of simplification, administrative modernization
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