CONATEL Organizes Two-Day Workshop on Electronic Signature Implementation

The National Telecommunications Council (CONATEL) organized a workshop on the implementation of electronic signatures on Wednesday, June 4 and Thursday, June 5, 2025. This initiative, carried out in collaboration with IHSI, focused on the theme: «Electronic Signature: Modernizing the State, Securing Public Action, Building Digital Trust».

«Finalizing the necessary steps for the publication of regulatory standards on the implementation of electronic signatures» was the objective targeted by the initiators of this activity.

Several public institutions took part in the sessions. The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MTPTC), the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), and the National Identification Office (ONI), to name but a few.

In his address, CONATEL's Director General, Engineer Huguens Prévillon, emphasized the importance of electronic signatures for the country. According to him, it is a strategic tool that helps secure transactions and public documents, simplify administrative procedures, reduce delays and costs for citizens and businesses, bring the administration closer to users, and assist in the fight against fraud, among other things.

The Director General also highlighted the major challenge for the modernization of public and private services, which should pave the way for digital transformation in Haiti, and the security and reliability of digital transformations.

The head of the National Telecommunications Council is committed to working with all relevant institutions to achieve the rapid implementation of this project.

The electronic signature «is the graphic representation by which a person identifies themselves in an act and by which they express their approval of the content of that document». The validation of any commitment is subject to the existence of this handwritten signature, which gives the document its probative force.