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Russia’s neighbour is the most advanced provider of E-government in the European Union, exporting its know-how to Georgia, Oman and Qatar.

The €500,000 (£398,000) Ukrainian E-government project is being co-funded with Swedish development agency Sida. “The current situation is Ukraine is complicated,” says Foreign Minister Urmas Paet.

"The law establishes certain legislative acts for the production of biometric passports for travel abroad, but at the same time, it violates the previously undertaken obligations in the sphere of the protection of personal data," Scientific Director at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Oleksandr Sushko said.

According to the expert, the benefits of the law are leveled by its disadvantages.

Gospodarstvo published data on the water quality in the reservoirs of Ukraine. About this first Deputy head of the state Agency for e-governance Alex Wiskup reported on his page in the network Facebook.

“Almost 80% of Ukraine’s population are supplied with drinking water from surface sources, among them nearly 75% — from the Dnieper. That is why it is important for citizens to understand what is the quality of the surface waters near their homes, work places”, — said Viskup.

The Work Group to introduce electronic document flow between the state executive services and banking institutions was created by Order № 57/2 dated 26.06.2013.

The main objective of the group is to develop referral procedures for arrest of debtor's funds and other property, as well as payment requests in form of electronic documents for banking institutions.

The purpose of the document is to define measures for the period up to 2015 aimed to create a unified information and communication infrastructure of public authorities and local governments. The document also aims to develop standards for the implementation and operation of electronic control systems and implementation of integrated information systems of state bodies.

The press service of the executive committee reported on Tuesday that Ivano-Frankivsk administrators had already familiarized themselves with the peculiarities of document management in Estonia's local government agencies - electronic records, electronic signatures, etc.

"Of course... I would be happy to get the first biometric passport," he said at a press conference on Friday, when asked if he would like to be one of the first to replace his passport with a new passport with biometric data.

Kravchuk said that if Ukraine really seeks integration with the EU, then it is proper that Ukrainian citizens have biometric passports, as required by the rules of the European community.

Kyiv is ready to share its experience in implementing successful innovative solutions with other cities.

'The creation of Kyiv's smart infrastructure started three years ago. Today, Kyiv is ready to share its experience in introducing successful innovative solutions, which make the life of residents comfortable and safe and the city's management processes open and transparent, with other cities, said Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, who will open the Kyiv Smart City Forum 2018 on Wednesday, October 31.

It will take 30 days to produce such an ID, which will hold information about name, sex, citizenship, birth date and place of residence of a person, their photo, signature, and additional biometric data, as well as issue and expiration dates. The law clarifies that digitalized signature and photograph of a person's face constitute main biometric data, while digitalized fingerprints are additional biometric data.

Ukraine’s new administration wants to make state services available on smartphones, and there is one country in particular it can learn from.

In less than three decades, Estonia, a Baltic nation of 1.3 million, has transformed from a Soviet-occupied communist country to one of the world’s leading digital states.

The law was published in the Holos Ukrainy parliamentary newspaper on December 5 and, as stipulated in the law, it will come into force on the day following the day of its publication.

The platform will minimize paperwork, help businesses and ordinary people, and increase transparency of the State Architecture and Construction Inspectorate. The Inspectorate had to process over 130,000 applications in 2013.

The Kyiv City State Administration, which was represented by its deputy chairman Oleksandr Puzanov, and Microsoft Ukraine, represented by its director-general Dmytro Shymkiv, have signed a memorandum of understanding which provides for implementation of e-government in Kyiv.

Kyiv will be the first city in Ukraine to implement entire sy­stem of e-governance. “Microsoft has experience of working with go­v­ern­­ments of more than 130 countries on the implementation of e-government solutions that meet government priorities and make lives of their citizens better. We welcome this initiative of the Kyiv City State Administration and are happy to share our experien­ce with them. E-government will help the city’s authorities to work more efficiently and provide hig­her quality services to Kyivites,” the executive director of Microsoft Inc. Kevin Turner noted.

Paper pushers could face extinction in Ukraine very soon, thanks to a July 29 decree signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky to make all government services electronic and online.

The decree specifies 11 steps for the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to roll out such e-services for Ukrainians. It includes auditing all the country’s registers, making them work together, and putting up a single website for access to such services.

"We object to collecting such a huge amount of information, some of which is not needed," the first deputy head of the service, Lilia Oleksiuk, said during a roundtable on the introduction of biometric documents in Ukraine held in Kyiv last week.

She noted that under international law, biometric data should only be used in foreign travel passports, but not in national identity cards.

The data is stipulated in the report on the competiveness of Ukraine's regions in 2012 drawn up by the Foundation for Effective Governance (FEG) with support of the World Economic Forum.

"The passports will be produced in three or four months," Interior Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov said at an inter-departmental meeting in Kyiv on Wednesday.

He said that the question remained open as to which data should be included in biometric passports.

The draft law provides for the creation of a unified state demographic register, which will contain basic personal information on each citizen. Additionally, the draft stipulates issuing the documents for traveling abroad that have a built-in proximity chip with registry information on the holder.

The new document standard is designed to help eliminate ID fraud and thus increase border security. The registry may become accessible to all the relevant European services and institutions, improving the time and cost efficiency of their work, including the shortened border control procedure.

Key Points

• In a nearly unanimous vote, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted a law that legalizes and regulates cryptocurrency.
• The bill was set in motion in 2020 – and now heads to the desk of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• Until today, dealing in crypto in Ukraine has existed in a legal gray area.