In the scope of 4th Ministerial conference on e-government which took place in Lisbon in the framework of Portuguese Presidency of the European Union (EU) in September 2007, the results of annual measurement of European Commission (EC) about development of e-services in the Member states of EU were announced. This year's results show the excellent progress of Slovenia, which moved up from 7nt to 2nd place since the year 2006. Slovenia shares the 2nd place with Malta. The 1sth place is kept by Austria.
Vice-president of the EC Siim Kallas has specially stressed out the progress of Slovenia, Malta and Estonia. The progress means great acknowledgment to Slovenia for its endevaour to achieve effective e-government.
Among the explanation of the results of annual measurement of EC at the Conference, the Slovenian State portal E-uprava was specially preised as the best practice in the domain of a personalised and targeted gateway to public service delivery. Slovenia achieved a scoring of 93% for its national portal, the EU27+ average is at 75%.
Ministry of Public Administration also received special recognition for the case of good practice (»ePractice.eu good Practice label«) at the Conference. It recieved the recognition for the case of forming the programme for Reduction of Administrative Burdens (RAB) by the means of development of new informational system, which supports the programme RAB. Ministry recieved this special recognition on the basis of recommendation of the European e-Governmnet Awards 2007 Consortium. The recognition was awarded only to those 10% of the best cases, which were estimated by experts with more than 80 points.
More information on the web site of European Commision:
- The User Challenge Benchmarking The Supply Of Online Public Services
- European eGovernment Awards 2007
Quelle/Source: State Portal of the Republic of Slovenia, 18.10.2007
