Data Boxes are repositories designed to store electronic communications of: citizens and companies with the state (official correspondence); citizens with companies; and between public authorities. The Ministry of the Interior (Ministerstvo Vnitra, in Czech) manages the project, and Czech Post (Česká pošta, in Czech) operates the Information System of Data Boxes.
Citizens, companies and public authorities sent and received over 66 million messages to/in Data Boxes between the launch of the service (July 2009) and January 2012. Sending messages to Data Boxes is free of charge to citizens and businesses, whereas the cost of the messages sent by public authorities is covered by the state budget.
For every million messages sent by public authorities to Data Boxes, Czech Post receives CZK 3.36 million (approx €133 000) less than at the start of the project. As a result of the newly agreed price reduction and given that there is an average of three million messages sent a month, the annual savings for the State are expected to be CZK 20 million (approx €790 600).
Sending messages to Data Boxes has been entirely free of charge for citizens and businesses since the beginning of the project, thus reducing paper-based correspondence. It is estimated that CZK 600 million will be saved subsequently.
Each Data Box is password protected and accessible only with a certified eSignature. The Data Boxes Information System is fast (the message data is delivered almost immediately), reliable (the data cannot be lost) and simple to use, while offering the advantage of authenticating the sender and the receiver.
The use of Data Boxes has fundamentally changed the way citizens and businesses interact with the State and the way public authorities communicate with each other. Users can now send and receive official correspondence from any location, at any time.
In January 2012, there were over 439 000 Data Boxes owners: public authorities, legal entities and natural persons. All public authorities and legal entities must have a Data Box whereas self-employed people and individuals can set up a Data Box on a voluntary basis.
Further information:
- Original news article - Ministry of the Interior (in Czech)
- Related ePractice news article - CZ: Information System of Data Boxes ready for its imminent full operation
- Related ePractice news article - CZ: Czech Data Box system has now delivered over 50 million messages
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Quelle/Source: epractice, 03.02.2012
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