The technology is out there. Now the Multicert wants to give him use – the Public.en

The possibilities are endless: everything that today requires a signature or completion of personal data can be made thousands of miles away, with savings of cost, space, paper. What Multicert want is to find each of these possibilities and make them reach to the market. In the relationship between citizens and the State or between suppliers, customers and business. But, even in a world that is highly digitized, not all of the doors open to the sophisticated technology. And it is in countries which today is still in need of simple solutions to solve the big problems that the business is growing.

The electronic certification, which allows you to authenticate your documents wherever you are, is one of the main areas of Multicert, a Portuguese technology that was founded in 2002 and has as main shareholder the Sibs. But, as explained by its director-general, Jorge Alcobia, "the certificates alone do not serve for nothing". What is needed is "to build solutions on them".

at This moment, there are clients such as Mcdonald’s , the Leaseplan or Cofidis who have bought a product that lets you work with the vendors without paper, with signature and digital storage. These companies are also already working with a tablet that makes the reading of the citizen card, and automatically enters the data in the system. "A procedure that used to take 40 minutes now takes five," says the same director.

But there is so much to explore: using the citizen score cards in the network of ATM (better known as Atm), which is managed by Sibs, to interact with the internal revenue service or Social Security or to make contracts work without the need for a single physical document. "Our mission is to find use cases," says Jorge Alcobia, ensuring that it is the only way you’ll be able to increase the number of citizens who now use the digital signature, the citizen card, which is about 10% to 15% in Portugal.

it Is, however, outside the Multicert has his eyes, already being in progress and a prototype to transform the 440 types of letter of pipes that exist in the United States in a single, to use on your phone. The U.S. also has 12 thousand birth certificates different and serious difficulties in the health insurance-related fraud – areas where the company, which has 63 employees, is also the look.

internationalization has been very supported in partnerships with large manufacturers that produce the infrastructure and the equipment: the american Get Group and Gemalto or the German Mühlbauer. The Multicert sell them a product key in hand, which is ready to install when it arrives to customers from different countries. And, in a few years, the Portuguese company also already has projects in preparation, in the process of booting, or has already implemented for example in Ecuador, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, Angola, Cape Verde or Sao Tome and Principe.

The objective is "get to 60 or 70 countries through these partnerships," which in the African Countries of Portuguese Official Language have been made to the side of another shareholder, the National mint, which holds a 20% stake.

With the conference that was held at the beginning of this week in Mozambique, the eID Conference (focusing on the theme of e-identification), you want to come to this country, which has an ongoing series of ideas, such as the creation of a unique number to the citizens and the evolution of the passports. In the first half, the turnover stood at three million euros, which represented a growth of almost 25% compared to the same period last year, and the profits exceeded 120 thousand euros. At this time, only 20% of revenues come from overseas – the intention is that the level go up to 60%.

The electronic certification is one of the many vertices of the Multicert, who also works in the area of passports and id cards, electronic and other solutions such as voting at a distance or digital storage. One of the projects that have made it more known, and in which is a partner of the hellenic Byte Computer, was the assignment of records to the refugees that come to Greece, which is currently in implementation phase. In Azerbaijan, was chosen to produce the citizen card and waits for the signature of the contract.