The trophy "Best mGovernment" - the best performance of a government in mobile communication - has been bestowed to the Chisinau Executive by the GSMA, the world organization representing the interests of the mobile communications industry, for the "Mobile Signature" project. This electronic service, developed within a public-private partnership between the Government of the Republic of Moldova, the Electronic Governance Center, the center for Special Telecommunications and the mobile telephony operators Moldcell and Orange, has been launched on 14 September 2012.

The prize "Best mGovernment" has been accepted by the Executive Director of the Electronic Governance Center, Stela Mocan, at the global congress of mobile telephony operators, which is held on 26 February in Barcelona.

The "Mobile Signature" is an identity card of the citizen in the virtual world and the access key to all public services in electronic format. With the "Electronic Signature" citizens are authenticated in the virtual space and can remotely sign papers, reports, requests and declarations for institutions.

The "Mobile Signature" can be requested from the mobile telephony operators Moldcell and Orange. The citizen shall have ready only the identity card.

The "Mobile Signature" service is also available to citizens abroad. Through it, they can access services which they would traditionally request only back home, in the Republic of Moldova.

Until March 31^th 2013 the "Digital Signature" is free of charge. In the future, the price of the service will be accessible to all categories of citizens. The Republic of Moldova is amongst the first seven countries in the world which use the mobile signature.

This is the second international prize in the area of Electronic Governance for the Government of the Republic of Moldova. The "Cloud Computing-MCloud" solution, implemented by the Executive of the Republic of Moldova, has won the international prize "Best Cloud Project in Central & Eastern Europe".