Alasgarov said at present e-service is widely applied in the international experience in order to achieve the improvement, simplification and making easy of the immediacy of the mutual relations between the state and society utilizing of the information and communication technologies.
E-service is also estimated as one of the effective means in prevention of corruption and ensuring the transparency, he said. E-service has great importance in increasing the efficiency and quality of the mutual relations between the state agencies and the citizens, ensuring the transparency, eradication of the factors conducive to corruption.
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Under the order, the Cabinet Ministers was commissioned to adopt for 2-month period the rules and forms of e-services provided by central authorities.
Central executive bodies were entrusted to create e-service sections in their official websites for 3-month term, as well as conditions for free use of such services, including clarification of the required documents. In the same period they should organize acceptance of applications and petitions of citizens in the electronic (scanned) form. At that, system of ensuring security of personal data of applicants and online payment of public services should be organized.
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Within the EDS project, an e-government certification centre is established which is responsible for providing digital signatures to governmental agencies. There is also a centre for service of commercial structures.
Communications & IT minister Ali Abbasov has stated that the EDS system will soon be introduced officially and issue of EDS will start.
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The Cabinet of Ministers was instructed to determine the rules and types of e-services on specific spheres to be provided by the central executive authorities within two months.
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Elmir Velizadeh, deputy communications & IT minister, informs that within the EDS project it was established an e-government certification centre which is responsible for providing digital signatures to governmental agencies. There is also a centre for service of commercial structures.
"For getting an EDS, the applicant should present ID, an application for EDS, and a document confirming payment of the service. After confirmation of the request, a contract is signed with the applicant, who is then registered in the register and is given a card with EDS. The software required for use of the signature, can be downloaded at www.e-imza.az. To use the signature the user must connect to a card-reader to PC,” Velizadeh emphasized.
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