Analysis of electronic signature in Turkey from the legal and economic perspectives and the awareness level in the country

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Enformatik Enstitüsü, Bilişim Sistemleri Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2006

Öğrenci: GÖKHAN İSKENDER

Danışman: ALTAN KOÇYİĞİT

Özet:

As in the case of other information technologies, the best way of obtaining efficient results from electronic signature application is integrating it to the legal and economic systems and increasing the awareness level of technology in the society. This thesis performs the legal and economic analyses of electronic signature in Turkey and measures the awareness level in the society. The analyses performed in the thesis show that electronic signature is not legally established in Turkey even the legal base is harmonious with European Union and it is expensive in practice even though its economic rate of return is high and the awareness level in the society which is measured in this study with a 20 questions test is not very high.