Digital Signatures
We live in an increasingly connected digital world, with more services being integrated into our online routines every year. APEGA helps registrants meet the demand for greater digital integration by providing the option to use digital authentication— a secure, easy-to-use alternative to physical authentication.
Digital signatures offer engineering and geoscience professionals a safe and efficient way to authenticate professional work products, offer proof of licensure, and prevent signed documents from being altered. Digital signatures are an important tool licensed professionals can use to protect the integrity of their professional work products. • Digital signatures for our licensed professionals build public confidence that our professions match the pace of today’s technology. • Digital signatures can reduce costs and increase productivity for licensed professionals, while maintaining regulatory compliance by ensuring electronic and digital professional work products cannot be falsified.
Did you know? Digital signatures are different from electronic signatures. Whereas electronic signatures are graphics or pictures of a signature that are inserted as images, digital signatures are metadata that are attached to the professional work product and use secure encryption technology to guarantee their integrity.
Total active digital signatures of APEGA registrants
13,514
12,479
11,104
2022
2023
2024
16 60
2024 ANNUAL REPORT
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