DIGITAL SIGNATURES
One in five APEGA registrants now use a digital signature to authenticate their professional work products, with about 70 per cent of them adopting the technology in the past three years.
• In a virtual world, secure digital signatures are essential to ensuring public safety by
The pandemic accelerated digital signature use, with more professionals collaborating on projects remotely and more clients requesting digital-only documents. Many are finding that digital documents are easier and less expensive to share and store. •Traditionally, engineering and geoscience professionals have printed, stamped, and hand- signed their professional work documents. This authentication means a licensed APEGA professional has completed or reviewed the engineering or geoscience work and takes responsibility for it.
guaranteeing the integrity of signed documents, preventing their falsification, and proving the signer is registered with APEGA.
921
718
338
CUMULATIVE ACTIVE DIGITAL SIGNATURES SINCE 2011
54
2011
2012
2013
2014
Total Active Digital Signatures
32 84
2022 ANNUAL REPORT
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