Los documentos electrónicos en la legislación ecuatoriana

Abstract

In present days, the new technologies of information and communication have evolved fast and continually, in such a way that is possible now that people can stay in touch among themselves in a better way and more efficient making a big impact in every day´s life of everyone. At the same time, with a social dynamic, also it has been developing in this field of technology, at such point that is possible now to take care of legal business in different ways compared to before, for example, when everybody involved in a legal matter, is not present in person, it is possible to use video conference or e-mails, among others. For this reason, the recent study pretends to be an important contribution to analyze the problematic to the electronic documents, its equivalence with the traditional document and the way that it can become as a public document. Thus it is necessary to begin this study from the generality of the traditional documents and start introducing specifically this type of documents, setting its legal value, as legal consequence as well. Finally, the theme proposal will have a big input within the social scope, since it would allow that people have full knowledge and legal security at the moment to do acts and contracts of this nature.