As part of his working visit to the Zhambyl region, Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev familiarized himself with the implementation of the state program Digital Kazakhstan in the region, and also examined new educational technologies at the IT Lyceum, the press centre of Prime-Minister reports.
The Head of the Digitalization Office D. Yegizbayev reported that the Smart Taraz project, which includes 20 projects in five key areas: education, health, housing and public utilities, transport, agribusiness and security, is being implemented within the framework of the state program Digital Kazakhstan.
Read more: KZ: Digital economy: Smart Taraz and Taraz Hub projects presented to Prime Minister
The World Bank Group has just published the latest governance indicators including how well Kazakhstan is performing. The picture over a 10-year period is a mixed bag. It shows that Kazakhstan has made significant improvements in government effectiveness which measures the quality of public services and improved capacity of the civil service. It also shows a marginal improvement in the control of corruption although progress is very limited given the time period involved. Finally, the latest figures show that voice and accountability, which measures freedom of expression, freedom of association, and a free media has become marginally worse over the decade.
Read more: Governance in Kazakhstan: improvements but could do better
Government for Citizens State Corporation intends to simplify real estate registration and reduce the times it takes, reported board chair Abylaikhan Ospanov at the May 23 Central Communications Service briefing.
“The rights to register real estate will be transferred from the Ministry of Justice to the Government for Citizens state corporation in the near future. This will simplify the procedure,” he said.
Read more: KZ: Government for Citizens simplifies, shortens real estate registration procedures
During today's meeting, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan discussed the implementation of the projects for providing rural settlements with Broadband Internet access and developing 5G and data centers, Kazinform cites primeminister.kz. Prime Minister of the country Bakytzhan Sagintayev, in turn, recalled the need for broadband Internet.
Read more: KZ: PM instructs to take measures for broadband internet access in cities and villages
Blocking personal data on egov.kz, the e-government website,will soon be available to Kazakh citizens, reported Government for Citizens State Corporation head Abylaikhan Ospanov at a Central Communications Service press conference.
“In order to exclude the risk of unauthorised personal data transfer, we have developed a project according to which citizens will have full control over access to their data,” he said.
Read more: Kazakh citizens can protect data access through egov.kz