联合国和移动电话公司联盟都在分别制订计划,以促进电子商务的发展。10月底,联合国展开了关于颁布电子签名示范法的辩论,如果这项法律得到通过,那么到2001年中期,世界各国将开始实施这项法律。联合国的电子签名示范法草案提出了一些指导原则,规定了什么是电子签名,如何使它与手写签名具有同样的效力。该法律草案称,电子签名“可通告来标识与数据文件相关的签名者,并且可以表示签名者已经认可 Both the United Nations and the mobile phone company alliance are planning separately to promote the development of e-commerce. At the end of October, the United Nations launched a debate on the promulgation of a model law on electronic signatures. If the law is passed, then by mid-2001 all countries in the world will begin to implement this law. The United Nations draft model law on electronic signatures sets forth some guiding principles, which stipulate what an electronic signature is and how it can be made to have the same effect as a handwritten signature. The draft law states that electronic signatures ”can be announced to identify the signer associated with the data file and can indicate that the signer has accepted