IfG.CC - The Institute for eGovernment

The project will be finished in a year. If successful this model will be applied to the whole Armenian Government. The project envisions creating a modern computer network, installing necessary equipment, retraining FM employees. The best example of e-government in FM is the issuance of e-visas. The next step is e-certificate of no previous conviction for those seeking jobs abroad. This phase is to be carried out together with Justice Ministry. For this purpose the computer networks of the two ministries will be united. The FM's experience will be applied to the whole government structure. Officials from different ministries are now being trained in England under the program.

It means notary officers will have necessary documents and data online.

The introduction of the new system will also reduce red tape and will provide notary officers with full contacts with the Justice Ministry’s State Registry of Legal Entities, the State Real Estate Cadastre and law enforcement agencies and offices of civil registrations.

“The electronic management program is a tool in the hands of the public to monitor us,” the prime minister says.

In the framework of constitutional reforms in Armenia, the new electoral code addresses the introduction of electronic voting among other things. PanARMENIAN.Net spoke to Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, the Head of Research at the Estonian e-Governance Academy and the Head of the Chair of Law and Technology at Tallinn Law School about the peculiarities of e-voting in Estonia and the challenges the system faces worldwide.

The RA citizens will receive notifications by the e-mail addresses from the governmental bodies. They may as well send messages.

Those who intend to leave the country will be able to also obtain a passport with biometric data as a travel document.

The identification card contains an electronic database, individual cryptographic keys, electronic digital signature and certificates for identity.

The IACoEICT to be created by C-DAC with assistance from the Government of India includes the deployment of the indigenously developed PARAM Supercomputer of C-DAC in the High Performance Computing Centre and the training of nearly 1000 IT professionals per year.

“Presently, there are about 200 000 users in Armenia, against 70 000 in 2010 and 30 000 in 2009. New tools will help bring broadband internet users up to 400000 as well as lower the tariffs and improve the quality of on-line services,” David Sargsyan told journalists on March 14.

Starting from 1 June, 2012, residents of Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor who want have such passports may do it. According to the police’s decision, the process of elimination of old passports will start on January 1, 2014.

Armenia is moving towards a more transparent, secure, unified and citizen-oriented cadastral system. To achieve this, digitizing cadastral archives is essential. Digital availability of cadastral information will enable better management of lands, documented rights and tenure security for all Armenians. The Cadastre Committee has requested Kadaster, The Netherlands' Land Registry and Mapping Agency, for support.

In Armenia there is currently no unified approach to archive cadastral and land registry records. The integrated cadastre on real estate has little ability to support management and assessment of lands and real estate, and the registration of the natural, economic and legal status of those lands. The Cadastre Committee (CC) plans to reform by introducing an advanced self-service and paperless system, based on electronic registration and information processes. This digital system will be one of the pillars of the new real estate cadastre.

The new e-Armenia initiative aims to create transactional electronic services, assist the digitalisation of the Armenian civil registry and provide Armenian citizens with a new way to communicate with their Government.

The project will also digitize the national archives, create an electronic statistics system and an email system for government contacts. The overall efforts are expected to strengthen public sector reform in Armenia and introduce new systems for e-Governance, leading to a positive impact on democratic development and good governance, as well as transparency and anticorruption measures.