Digital identity firm eMudhra, has announced its entry to Latin America in the education sector with its flagship paperless office solution – emSigner. This will help curb diploma fraud and digitize the diploma issuance process.
eMudhra has partnered with Diplogrados Ltda, a leading diploma preparation and printing provider in the region to target over 100 universities in Colombia and surrounding countries. Diplogrados Ltda, prints over 200,000 diplomas for universities each semester in addition to other documents.
V Srinivasan, Founder Chairman, eMudhra said, “Our entry in LATAM region marks a significant milestone in terms of progress in driving the agenda of digital transformation beyond India. We aim to work with various global governments and educational institutions for issuing e-diplomas and contribute towards minimizing these frauds in regions outside of LATAM, including India.”
Currently, eMudhra is providing emSigner to one of the largest private sector universities in the region with a strength of 13,000 students and the idea is to issue diplomas to all of them. To meet this requirement, eMudhra has customized the product, making it available in Spanish with specific technologies built as an add-on to the original platform to minimize diploma frauds in the region. This add-on focuses on using PKI technology to generate PKI-driven barcodes which are placed on documents and can enable online/offline validation of authenticity of diploma and its content.
Arvind Srinivasan, Head of Global Markets, eMudhra said, “We are in a phase of growth where we are focusing largely on two areas, digital transformation and cybersecurity. Hence, we are looking at addressing the need to develop solutions around Document Fraud Mitigation. We spotted a market for this kind of solution in education sector, especially in the LATAM region so we decided to focus on the education Sector and help educational institutes minimize diploma frauds and 100% digitize the diploma issuance and authentication process.”
Source – https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/emudhra-forays-into-latin-american-market/articleshow/64660075.cms
