IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

Potential users of the electronic government will be learning how to use the e-gov.kz web portal. There are special schools, which organizers and people, who heard about the electronic government but were unable to learn how to use it, may attend. The young lawyer Nurlan Yeskendir believes that such seminars are very important.

Nurlan Iskendir, Astana resident: «People often need different certificates and to receive them, it is not necessary to ask for permission to leave work but just connect to the internet and receive all necessary information at home.»

Weiterlesen: KZ: Education to work e-government portal

The Kazakh Economic University (KazEU) named after T.Ryskulov and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have signed a memo on joint work in the field of development of "E-Government" and "Green Economy" innovative programs today in Almaty.

Establishment of an educational program KazEU-KAIST is planned within the joint activity. This project is a unique for Kazakhstan's higher educational institutions.

According to KazEU rector Ali Abishev, the Green Economy direction of the economic science became very popular in recent years. Stable development of a state requires a complex unity of three components - economic, social and environmental.

Weiterlesen: Kazakhstan to develop E-Government, Green Economy innovative programs

Kazakhstan’s “electronic government” is introducing new services in 2011. About 15 new offers are planned to be launched on the www.egov.kz web-portal this year. One of them is related to birth registration. Necessary documents will be processed automatically without parents’ participations and through special data bases of state bodies. The “National Information Technologies” Company is the one in charge of developing and expanding the web-portal. The portal issued 19 thousand electronic certificates in early 2009 while in 2010 their number totaled 2 million. Since the beginning of 2011 people obtained over one million different documents from the website. Advanced telecommunications infrastructure should become a competitive advantage in hopes of attracting investors, said Nursultan Nazarbayev at a session on April 17th involving the cabinet members. In particular, this applies to the development of electronic government. According to the rating, the UN department has a leading position in the CIS in terms of readiness to use electronic government technologies. As of today, the portal provides over two thousand information-related and over 70 interactive types of services.

Weiterlesen: KZ: E-government to launch new services

Only 12.5 percent of the Kazakh people have access to the Internet, Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Karim Masimov said at the international conference "E-government initiatives" in Astana on Oct.29.

Under the latest census of the country's population, only 55 percent of the people use the personal computer," Masimov said.

Weiterlesen: Only 12.5 percent of Kazakh population connected to Internet