The system to be adopted from South Korea and Kenya is known as Public Key Infrastructure.
According to the two countries, the system has been successful in checking cyber related crimes.
PKI is the national system that provides digital certification services. Through it an online identity and verification system is provided and each person (citizen) is issued with a unique digital certificate that is required before one does online transaction.
Speaking during a two-day PKI workshop organised by Ministry of Communication Science and Technology (CST) in Dar es Salaam yesterday, the responsible minister, Makame Mbarawa, said the PKI’s objective is to provide a trusted network infrastructure to secure online transactions.
He said the network also provides confidentiality and integrity protections. According to him, electronic signing is the most protected method to help solve a lot of the on-line crimes.
The system helps in elimination of hacking, identity theft and forgery of sensitive information.
“Despite the benefits of technological advancements, it is however unfortunate that these benefits come along with greater risks, such as losing trust and confidence in the networks we rely on. There is also the risk of losing trust and confidence in our ability to communicate securely and generally misuse and abuse,” he said.
He explained that as countries all over the world are making progress in e-government, all offline activities are being changed into online ones like e-commerce, e-banking, e-procurement, e-tourism, e-Immigrations, and others; so the PKI is important.
Mbarawa further said immediate beneficiaries of PKI are those that rely heavily on e-transactions among them; banks, the revenue authorities, online businesses and those that hold sensitive information like hospitals, legal entities and government ministries and departments including immigration services.
For his part, deputy general researcher for Korea Internet Agency (KISA), Samuel Park, called upon the Tanzanian government to immediately implement the PKI system especially in areas of revenue collection, banks because it would be beneficial to the development of the economy.
“In South Korea, we started implementing the PKI long time ago and it has benefited us especially in doing online marketing, financial services and getting other crucial e-government information,” he said.
Another expert, Antony Mugamby, Kenya’s ministry for science, said they started implementing the PKI system some seven months ago.
“We are in a good position now, we started with revenues collection area and we have managed to at least reduce the risk of fraud in clearing agency, custom and in all taxation issues,” he said.
The Tanzanian government has put a number of efforts to fight against cyber crimes.
In the spirit of building confidence to its citizens, it has formulated three cyber law bills namely, the (one) Computer misuse and Cyber crime Prevention bill, (two) E-transaction bill and (three) Personal data protection bill, which are currently in the process of enactment.
It has enacted the Electronic and Postal Communications Act (EPOCA) of 2010 followed by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Regulations, 2011 that led to the establishment of CERT-Tz currently under the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA).
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Devota Mwachang`a
Quelle/Source: IPPmedia, 01.08.2014
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