A new bill seeks to make more public services available at the click of a button. Apart from filing in the application for divorce and marriage, Russian citizens will be able to request registration for a new organization or an individual entrepreneurship, negotiate insurance with a pension fund, or fill in a tax statement or apply for social welfare.
Employers will be able to obtain information on the labor market; anti-monopoly organizations will accept reports on business deals.
The so-called “one-window service” will be in charge of the project. The aim of the organization is to provide citizens with the state services they need through a single official (“window”) rather than through a long list of officials located in different parts of the city.
The law is part of the government’s efforts to cut red tape and beat corruption. It is based on the idea of reducing the amount of contact between citizens and officials.
In 2011, Russia was ranked 27th in the ratings of e-government progress – between Monaco and the United Arab Emirates; in just a year, Russia has gone up 32 positions, according to the UN report.
Russia’s e-government project took off in April 2010. The project is aimed at taking care of Russians’ day-to-day bureaucracy on-line, as well as at turning the country into an information society by installing Wi-Fi points all over the cityand implementation of computerization in all schools and sites of public importance.
President Medvedev promised that by 2015 all Russian government forms will be completed online.
The auditors, however, say that the program is not transparent enough. While more than $10 million for this project has been spent on the program, there is still practically no result.
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Quelle/Source: RT, 12.03.2012
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