Electronic Document Attestation System

Details of the organization
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
http://www.mfa.gov.lk
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  • The organization has a strategy for coordinating WSIS Implementation at the national level: Yes
  • The organization has a national e-strategy: Yes

Information about the project
Electronic Document Attestation System
e-DAS
The Electronic Document Attestation System (e-DAS) is an innovative digital platform based on cloud computing. As an e-government initiative, the e-DAS was launched in February 2017 to enhance the efficiency and credibility in the document attestation process at the Consular Affairs Division of the Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry. The e-DAS offers online appointments to citizens and paperless office environment. The manual system took about 5 hours to attest one document whereas the e-DAS only takes less than 15 minutes per document issued through a single counter. Accordingly, four hours and forty-five minutes are now saved per document. The e-DAS so far attested 250,000 documents while enabling document holders to save their valuable time. The total time saved was 1.2million hours (number of documents multiplied by time saved per document). Since Diplomatic Missions and institutions of the foreign governments are able to directly access the e-DAS, the document verification process has become transparent to users, and its credibility significantly enhanced. The possibility of the attested documents being forged by human smugglers/ traffickers is almost eliminated. Thus, the e-DAS has positively contributed to combating criminal acts. The e-DAS is capable of serving 20million people inside Sri Lanka and about 2million Sri Lankans living abroad. It has already linked its regional Consular office in Jaffna, serving the people by preventing them travelling to the Capital city. Therefore, people’s time, money can be saved, and severe traffic congestion in the city eased. The e-DAS can be replicated in many government institutions.
http://www.mfa.gov.lk/index.php/en/consular-services/online-consular-services
International implementation
Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belgium, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, China, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mauritius, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal (Republic of), Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Congo, Palestine, Qatar, Korea (Rep. of), Romania, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Russian Federation, United States of America, Viet Nam
Completed from 02/05/2016 to 06/02/2017
Stakeholders 1. All Sri Lankan Missions abroad 2. All Foreign Missions based in Sri Lanka and New-Delhi (accredited to Sri Lanka)/some Foreign Ministries of other countries 3. All Divisional Secretariats (336) / District Secretariats (25) 4. Department of Examination 5. Registrar General’s Department 6. Department of Registration of Persons 7. Department of Immigration & Emigration 8. Department of Motor Traffic 9. Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau 10. Tertiary and Vocational Training Commission 11. Ministry of Education 12. All Universities 13. All Judiciaries and Ministry of Justice 14. Department of Police 15. Sri Lanka Medical Council and Ayurvedic Medical Council of Sri Lanka 16. All Charted and Professional Institutions 17. Chambers of Commerce - Digital Infrastructure provider -The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA)/Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure of Sri Lanka - Software developer- EPIC Lanka Technologies PVT Ltd

WSIS information
      * E-government
  • Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
  • Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
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