KYIV. July 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Mobile ID electronic identification technology could be introduced by mobile operators by the end of 2017, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said.
“I think that this year we would expand the possibilities of Mobile ID. We are working on the issue. I think that this year we would make the relevant decisions,” he said at a government meeting on Wednesday.
Earlier Groysman called on all mobile operators to create the identical system that would be clear for users. He said that the government is ready to support the idea in the legal field – to form a package of legislative initiatives for the implementation of mobile identification.
Using Mobile ID mobile communications users would be able to sign documents in the electronic form, pay for services and receive access to protected e-documents using their mobile phones.
Mobile ID provides for the creation of an infrastructure for interaction between mobile operators’ networks, key certification centers and various electronic interaction portals with citizens, providing mobile phone owners with special SIM cards with built-in identification algorithms. Since 2000, similar services have been introduced in most EU countries, as well as in Moldova, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Kazakhstan.
