Welcoming the innovation by Namibia Business & Intellectual Properties Authority

It was pleasing to find that Namibia (not Nambia) Business and Intellectual Properties Authority (BIPA) has developed an online business registration platform. This is a right step into the right direction in response to the most anticipated e-governance, which should be explored for easier, fast and reliable service delivery between the government, its agencies and the public.

While BIPA should be congratulated for this development, they should also be advised to make the registration page secure, as in the mean time their registration page http://wicrs.bipa.gov.na/account/auth/index/ is not safe for users to fill in their information. Unsecure sites can easily be abused by cyber criminals who would find it easy to steal information of clients for abuse.

It was also noted that BIPA used a proxy  (https://www.wickr.com/) site for the registration platform, while BIPA might be sure of the security certificates of this proxy site, people who would want to register their business through this platform would not be sure of how secure their information would be.

BIPA should therefore consider making the registration page secure a top priority.