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"What
we all know as Security� is now changing"
As Egypt Trust participated into the Cairo ICT 2008 Exhibition and as
per the new slogan of the Fair "What we know as � Is now
changing", the understanding of Digital Signature is considered to
be the new emerging change in technology in the upcoming years in
Egypt
. Digital Signature was made clear to the visitors of the Exhibition. At
the opening ceremony, His Excellency Dr. Tarek Kamel, the Minister of
Communications and Information Technology, has visited ET booth in order
to understand more about Egypt Trust and the progress of implementing
digital signatures in
Egypt
. Other VIPs have visited then booth to get more into the details of
digital signature and security solutions.
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Egypt Trust has exhibited an idea of a new ADSM machine (Automatic
Digital Signature Machine) which was used for demonstrating the usage of
digital signature through a smart card or a USB Smart Token. The idea
behind that machine is to be placed in any public area or place (e.g.
Egypt Post Offices, Clubs, � etc.) to facilitate to end-users, who do
not have access to a PC, Internet or to a smart card reader, the digital
signature usage and process.
More
and more people from all over the world have come to the booth of Egypt
Trust (which was part of the Global Egypt Post Booth) in order to either
understand the idea of using digital signature in Egypt (under the law),
in general or in their corresponding entities or to explore the new
changing and emerging technology of digital signature.
Statistics
of the visitors showed the following results:
- In addition to HE Dr. Tarek Kamel, The Minister of
Communications and Information Technology, HE Dr. Ahmed Darwish,
Minister of State for Administrative Development, HE Dr. Yousri el Gamal, the
Minister of Education, HE Dr. Aly Meselhy, the
Minister of Social Welfare, and Eng. Alaa Fahmy, Chairman of Egvpt
Post, visited the ET booth. Other VIPs as the Assistants of the
Minister of Interiors for the
Computer
Center
, National ID, Civil Status Organization and Passports were present.
Moreover, several
strategic and potential customers such as Egypt Post, Telecom Egypt,
GiroNil, Microsoft, Armed Forces, Dr. Motassem El Kaddah, Khorafi,
ITIDA, and other International companies such as a Troop from the
Netherlands, Tanzania, the Foreign Minister of Algeria, � etc were
interested in understanding more about Digital Signature.
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More than 200 interested end-users, customers and
suppliers, out of which over 90 who filled out questionnaires and
are interested in getting more information about digital signature,
E-signature law in Egypt, VeriSign Inc., Code signing and other
security products, services and solutions offered by Egypt Trust.
The
location of the Egypt Trust Booth, being part of the
Egypt
Post booth, had a more strategic importance and explored
benefits to the fair's end-users and customers. In addition, Egypt Trust
has set up a variety of awareness sessions in the nearby stage of Egypt
Post (in conjunction with the contests that took place) to the visitors
about ET history and about the understanding of digital signature. In
addition, Egypt Trust has sponsored the gifts of the contests from the
post.
In the closing session of the ICT Fair, Eng. Yahia El Atfy, ET Chairman,
talked about the understanding and the importance of digital signature
in addition to integration of the National ID and the PKI smart cards
(an all-in-one solution).
Egypt Trust was honored to be part of the Egypt Post booth and
would like to thank the management of Egypt Post for their kind
integration within their strategic booth.
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