This provides for the use, security, facilitation and regulation of electronic communications and transactions; encourage the use of e-Government services and provide for related matters;

The purpose of these Regulations is to operationalize the Electronic Transactions Act (ETA). The Regulations provide further detail to the ETA with regard to authentication of data messages;

The objectives of these Regulations are—

(a) to promote e-government services and electronic communications and transactions with public and private bodies, institutions and citizens;

(b) to promote the use of the internet to provide increased opportunities for citizen participation in Government;

(c) to promote interagency collaboration in providing public services by consolidating, rationalizing and integrating related functions and using internal e-Government processes to improve the service to citizens, efficiency and effectiveness of the processes;