Ensuring Digital Signature Legitimateness for Funeral Leave Policy in United Kingdom

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[Music] the united nations joint staff pension fund was established in 1949 by the united nations general assembly to provide retirement death disability and related benefits for staff upon cessation of their services with the united nations and the other organizations admitted to membership in the fund the fund has nearly 80 000 retirees and beneficiaries and this number is growing steadily every year the fund has to verify the proof of existence and location of its retirees and beneficiaries to pay their pension as is required by the fund's regulations this process is paper-based the fund sends a form to each retiree and each retiree has to send back the signed form to the fund it involves a lot of back and forth and handling a physical mail it is also dependent on postal services which can be an issue as seen during the covid19 crisis this process has been the same for the past 70 years and it is about to change the fund has just successfully tested a mobile phone app which can verify and guarantee the identity of retirees as well as their location with this app retirees will not need to send paper forms any longer when a participant initiates his or her retirement process generally a few months before it happens he or she will be able to create a digital identity and a biometric facial identity this identity is then validated by their employing organization and the pension fund the app is capable of guiding users to ensure that the picture they are taking is acceptable future retirees then send through the app a request to be acknowledged as a unj spf member the pension fund verifies this request and upon registration future retirees will get a digital certificate of entitlement after retirement new retirees will then be able to send the digital certificate of entitlement through the app every year instead of sending it through postal mail the use of a mobile app will be an option coexisting with the paper certificate as the fund is aware not everyone will be able to have access to it the digital certificate of entitlement will use biometrics to create verify and secure the digital identities of retirees and prevent fraud we'll identify their location with geolocation technology and will store transaction on an immutable traceable and independently auditable ledger using a blockchain platform the app once established has the potential to save extensive processing time in collecting and verifying signatures more importantly it will provide a more reliable validation than mailings and paper-based signatures the app has been created for the convenience of our retirees this is one of the first deliverables of the fund's new strategy aiming to simplify our clients experience the digital certificate of entitlement is expected to be gradually implemented starting in 2021 with new retirees it will then be expanded in a second phase to current retirees with a verification process planned which will involve the un country offices you