Create digital trust with Kiwa eLicense

Kiwa has developed a new e license platform. E-licensing is not only about ‘digitizing’ paper and plastic, but also leads to better security, more effective enforcement and greater practicality. Watch the video below and discover all about Kiwa eLicense.

Why an e-license?

The eLicense is the logical successor to physical certificates and permits. Advantages of a digital licence that professionals can install on their own smartphone include:

  • Practicality: Many professionals regularly have to demonstrate their competences ‘in the field’. With an e license, the professional does not need to bring a separate permit or certification document: everything needed is on the smartphone;
  • Enforcement efficiency: Employers and authorities want to be able to check a certificate or permit regularly for validity. With an eLicence they can easily check whether a certification or permit is still valid. After all, as soon as a certificate is revoked for whatever reason, this is immediately indicated on the eLicence;
  • Evidence of compliance: Employers may be required to periodically check that certified professionals' qualifications are still valid (not expired, not withdrawn). An e licence ensures quick and easy verification, online and offline. Such an obligation usually also entails that verifications are registered, so that the employer can have 'proof of compliance' afterwards. Kiwa can log and store this data for the customer;
  • Digital access card: E-licenses on a smartphone can also replace traditional access cards and 'tags' for buildings. The access rights of an employee can be placed on the e license, after which the employee can simply hold his phone against an NFC sensor at doors or entrance gates. The e license can be used in the same way to access computer systems and other business facilities to which traditional cards currently provide access.

Optimal security

The critical success factor in the use of digital licenses is information security. Especially when it concerns special personal data, including for example medical data. Kiwa's eLicense platform and smartphone apps will meet eIDAS Level High (Stork 4) security standards, the most stringent information security level apart from military-grade security.

Kiwa is supervised by public bodies (including the Dutch government Human Environment & Transport Inspectorate and the civil aviation organization EASA) and by independent third parties from the private sector (including the British Standards Institution). This allows Kiwa to demonstrate transparently to the outside world that it is compliant with applicable legislation and information security standards.

Due to the high security requirements that Kiwa sets for its platform, the e license service is also attractive for other organizations that want to provide their licensees, certificate holders, employees or end users with a secure eLicense. Like for instance a mobile driving license.

Kiwa’s e-licensing services complies with relevant industry standard ISO/IEC 18013-5.

What can Kiwa do for you?

Kiwa is happy to discuss the options available to effectively achieve the social or business goals of your organization with an eLicence. This could include:

  • Kiwa can explore with you whether, and if so, when, it is interesting for your organisation to use an e-license solution. The interests of all stakeholders are mapped out, such as the organisation, the users, the government and possibly industry associations;
  • Kiwa can help your organisation determine which information security requirements your eLicense, e-permit or e-pass should meet. Not all e-license applications need to be secured at the highest level in order to meet the social requirements and legal obligations that apply to the organisation in question.

More information?

Would you like to know more about Kiwa e-licensing or meet us for more information? Contact us via the contact form or call our specialist: +31 (0)6 40 35 99 14.