Kazakhstan ranks seventh among Asian countries for e-government in 2016, a United Nations report said.
The “100 Concrete Steps to Implement Five Institutional Reforms” initiative launched last year by President Nursultan Nazarbayev “has the potential to support the establishment of a modern, professional and independent public service,” the UN stated in its 2016 E-Government Survey.
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According to the Committee of the State Revenues of the Finance Ministry, a new system of ‘single window’ that simplifies customs procedures for both exporters and importers will be introduced in 2017. The automated system will include all information about licenses and approval documents. This system will be combined with the ‘E-Government’ and databases of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health and Social Development and, the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This will halve the waiting time for bureaucratic approvals necessary for businesses. The mechanism will allow the exchange of data between government agencies of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Improving public services online in Kazakhstan and making sure that they are freely accessible has become one of the most important strategic objectives set bythe country’s President, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Senate deputy, member of the Committee on Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development, Ashat Kuzekov answered our questions on how these tasks are carried out by the legislature and described the benefits of “Mobile Government” programmes.
Q: The range of public services offered is becoming increasingly broad. Therefore, the number of regulations, which reinforce legislation on providing this service, are increasing. Not so long ago, you were considering another bill on e-government services. Could you elaborate what it provides that is new?
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Modern information and communication technologies occupy a central position in the world in health security, medical services and the transformation of healthcare systems. Information systems of electronic health allow monitoring of patients at a significant distance, distribution of information among the patients and improved accessibility to healthcare for disabled and elderly people, especially in remote areas.
During the last 10 years, Kazakhstan has been introducing and developing e-Government, the main goal of which is to create a country in which the interaction between the people and the state is simple, clear and approachable.
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Academics from the Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy were involved in leading a three-day workshop in Astana in February in partnership with the Universities of Exeter and Edinburgh from the United Kingdom. Funding for The Learning in Governance and Innovations in Public Services workshop was secured through a grant from the Newton–Al-Farabi Partnership Programme, a new bilateral U.K.-Kazakhstan programme coordinated by Kazakhstan’s Science Fund and the British Council.
The forum was aimed at early-career researchers in political science, public policy, management and international relations both from the U.K. and Kazakhstan. It was led by a team of international public policy scholars: Dr. Claire Dunlop and Prof. Claudio Radaelli from the University of Exeter, Dr. Tony Kinder from the University of Edinburgh and Prof. Neil Collins and Dr. Saltanat Janenova from Nazarbayev University. More than 56 researchers and practitioners, including 15 from the U.K. and 46 from Kazakhstan, participated in the symposium.
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