Aplicaciones de la firma electrónica en Ecuador

Abstract

This article shows the importance of electronic signatures, because its use offers several advantages; one of them is that it gives judicial and technological security to the commerce operations carried out in Internet. This is an important issue in our country since in the last few years the cybercrime has increased, becoming a social interest problem. Likewise through the use of the electronic signature the objectives from the Good Living and the Constitution of Ecuador are met, since the electronic signature helps the environment by avoiding the consumption of paper. It also shows the benefits that the electronic signature produces within organizations, such as: dematerialization of physical documents, an increase efficiency of internal procedures and expenditure savings on printing ink consumption. Finally the article shows the design of an implementation plan for the electronic signature in the main administrative processes in ESPOL, in order to encourage its usage and benefit from its applications.