Certification Authority

 

To spur the growth of merchant_accounts

  

Certification Authority  Apart from e-business, IT Infrastructure solutions for government   interconnectivity and convergence.  The public can enjoy doing business with the Philippine government and among   business institutions at the comfort of their homes, trusting that the documents they get were authentic and the payment they made through their credit cards were secured.  But can the public really trust the documents they get online? For now, different agencies has their own authentication tools, like the  Dept. of Finance's FINLINK,  registration of securities with Bureau of Treasury, all using different certificate authentication platform.  There are various  solution that deploys Internet Trust online identification and security Infrastructure on existing web sites. This install-and-go software module securely authenticates the person accessing the web site, and enables e-business transactions over the Internet using "digital signature" certificates.  But few merchants can avail of what we call merchant account- the ability to accept credit cards.   The banks are also warried that credit cards accepted through the internet are subject to fraud. I believe that the main challenge facing the government are standardization and the lack of a Certification Authority Body, which controls all these function of governing  the conduct and method of operation between the Parties in relation to the interchange of data by  Internet Procurement System for the purposes of supply of goods and services.   Click here to find out a Singapore experience on Procurement agreement. With the integration of Internet Trust online identification and security infrastructure to the IT Infrastructure of the government, the public can benefit from the added trust that can be used to aid in reducing fraud.  But It also propel the e-commerce to an unexpected level, which analyst predicted  to grow $ trillion by the turn of the century. * If a corporation website would require for a digital signature certificate, a message from your browser will tell you that the transaction can not proceed because it needs a certificate.   Where will you get a Certificate?  Netscape will tell you to get it from Certification Authority.  Who is the Certification Authority?     In the US It is issued by the government, US Federal government, that is.    Singapore has one and so is Malaysia, Japan and the rest of Europe.  It is not too late for the Philippines  because HK and Taiwan are starting to   just conceptualize their IT Infrastructure.  The Philippines at least is in the threshold,  has IT21 on whitepaper but have not discussed the Certification Authority anywhere on it.   I believe with the establishment of a Certification Authority Body, it  can start to develop a global niche for Philippine I.T., among the rest of the e-commerce community. The government can establish  an alliance with the private partners that implements several key e-business solutions and products riding on secure online identification and security infrastructure. E-commerce sites in the ASEAN region can now look forward to cross-border trusted e-business applications. This is vital in promoting and safeguarding e-business, particularly e-commerce. Companies can now leverage "plug-and-go" Internet- trust - ready solutions, integrate Internet -Trust products into existing e-commerce infrastructures.  But first thing is first, the Certification Authority Body has to be establish, either through Congressional legislation or Executive Order under the Office of the President.  Joseph Abrina Sarmiento