Project Details


AI Repository Project

WSIS Prizes Contest 2026 Nominee

SİMA İmza


Description

SİMA İmza, developed by AzInTelecom (under AZCON Holding), is a nationwide digital signature and authentication solution offered free of charge to all Azerbaijani citizens. Available free of charge to all citizens, it provides a unified, highly secure solution for digital identification. Users seamlessly onboard via mobile app stores by scanning or uploading their national ID, completing biometric facial verification, and setting a PIN. Advanced facial recognition ensures continuous, secure authentication during all transactions.
Designed to accelerate Azerbaijan’s digital transformation, SİMA İmza enables citizens, legal entities, individual entrepreneurs, and government institutions to sign documents and authenticate digitally anytime, anywhere. Integrated with financial institutions, MyGov ID, government systems, and numerous digital platforms, it provides a unified, secure, and user-friendly method for digital identification and signing.
Its cloud-based architecture eliminates the need for physical presence, hardware tokens, or paper-based workflows, resulting in faster service delivery and reduced administrative overhead. Whether within Azerbaijan or operating abroad, users are guaranteed uninterrupted, secure access to essential public and private services.

Project website

https://sima.az/en


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-government 2026
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project
  • Objective 1
  • Objective 2
  • Objective 3
  • Objective 4
  • Objective 5

Coverage
  • Azerbaijan

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2022

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Older persons
  • Women
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • People with disabilities
  • The unemployed
  • The poor
  • Migrants
  • Refugees and internally displaced people
  • Remote and rural communities
  • all user groups

Sustainability

SİMA İmza fundamentally transforms the ecological footprint of administrative and business processes. By transitioning over 1,000 public and private services to a fully cloud-based, paperless model, the platform saves hundreds of thousands of trees annually and drastically reduces the water and energy resources consumed during paper production. Because the solution operates entirely via a mobile application, it completely eliminates the manufacturing, distribution, and eventual e-waste associated with physical smart cards and hardware tokens.
Technologically, long-term resilience is guaranteed through the integration of open key infrastructure with sophisticated AI biometrics. Utilizing continuous face recognition and liveness detection, the platform dynamically defends against emerging cyber threats without requiring costly physical hardware upgrades. Its robust biometric authentication seamlessly supports secure Know Your Customer (KYC) onboarding and smart contract execution within blockchain and crypto ecosystems, ensuring the national digital infrastructure remains highly relevant, adaptable, and economically sustainable for the future.


WSIS values promotion

SİMA İmza promotes WSIS values by advancing: SİMA İmza embodies a fundamentally People-Centered and Inclusive approach to e-government by democratizing access to essential public and private services. By prioritizing usability and a seamless, human-centered digital experience, the platform guarantees universal inclusion through its free, nationwide availability. Crucially, SİMA İmza unshackles citizens and entrepreneurs from geographic and temporal constraints. It completely eliminates the dependency on physical infrastructure—meaning users are no longer required to travel to government registries, business hubs, or service centers. Operating seamlessly 24/7, the platform bypasses the limitations of traditional business hours, empowering users to authenticate and digitally sign documents exactly when they need to, from anywhere in the world. Furthermore, the project strongly promotes a Development-Oriented digital society built on trust, security, and confidence. By leveraging secure cloud infrastructure and pioneering AI biometric signature technology, SİMA İmza protects user data while driving national digital transformation. This innovation directly supports sustainable development goals; by removing the need to physically travel for administrative tasks and transitioning entirely away from paper-based workflows, SİMA İmza significantly reduces carbon emissions and resource consumption, setting a new benchmark for accessible and ecologically responsible e-government.


Entity name

AzInTelecom

Entity country—type

Azerbaijan — Government

Entity website

https://azintelecom.az/en