What Guinean law actually says about electronic signature
Code civil articles 1002 and 1003 as reported, what a rebuttable presumption shifts, why it matters if it lay dormant, and the 2016 statute beside them.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
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Guides for people who have to get documents signed. We start with the question that comes up first: does that scan in your inbox count as a signature?
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Code civil articles 1002 and 1003 as reported, what a rebuttable presumption shifts, why it matters if it lay dormant, and the 2016 statute beside them.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Legal & trust
Décret D/2026/0159/PRG/SGG requires a security audit every three years from anyone running electronic transactions in Guinea, including providers established abroad. Existing operators have eighteen months. Here is the scope, the cadence, the money, and what ARPT has not published yet.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Legal & trust
A decree implementing article 1003 of the Code civil was read on national television on 19 August 2026. It has no published number and no official text. Here is what press accounts say it contains, what that would mean, and why none of it is quotable yet.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Legal & trust
Code civil articles 1002 and 1003 as reported, what a rebuttable presumption shifts, why it matters if it lay dormant, and the 2016 statute beside them.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Basics
Print, sign, scan, email. It is how most contracts still move, and it produces a document that proves almost nothing. Here is exactly what is missing, and what replaces it.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Legal & trust
A buyer's checklist for a market the big vendors did not design for. Fifteen questions, grouped by what they protect you from, including the ones nobody puts on a comparison table.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Legal & trust
Two questions that get mixed up: whether you can be made to sign electronically, and whether the other side can reject a document you already signed that way. The answers are different.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Legal & trust
In much of West Africa a document without a cachet is not taken seriously. Here is what the stamp really does, what it never did, and what carries that weight when the document is electronic.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Guides
Not a transformation programme. Four weeks, one document type at a time, with the measurements to take before you start so you can tell afterwards whether it worked.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Basics
The objections that come up in every first meeting, and what is actually true. Some of the myths are wrong, some are half right, and one of them is right more often than vendors admit.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Basics
Not every document deserves the same level of identity checking. A practical ladder, from a link in an inbox to a verified identity document, and how to decide where each of your documents sits.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Guides
Most signers here are on a handset, on mobile data, somewhere with two bars. What that means for the signer, for the person sending the document, and for how you should test any tool before buying it.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Guides
A practical walkthrough for the person doing this for the first time: preparing the file, placing fields, choosing how signers prove who they are, and what to do when someone does not sign.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
Basics
Not a picture of your name pasted onto a PDF. Here is what happens between the moment you open a link and the moment a signed document exists.
Lamine Diallo
Founder, CEO & CTO
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