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Deputy Head of the Kazakh President's Administration Bauyrzhan Baibek has chaired a national seminar on the issues regarding improvement of efficiency of public administration today.

The issues on improvement public administration, efficiency of the control activities and conducting ratings of regions were discussed within the seminar. Special attention was paid to the system of annual estimation of the effectiveness of the public bodies' work, which is carried out in accordance with the President's Decree.

Read more: KZ: Issues on improvement of public administration efficiency debated at Akorda

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.»

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The Kazakhstan Road Police has applied an electronic service enabling drivers to pay fines through "electronic government" website, the Kazakh Internal Ministry reported.

Last November the Interior Ministry in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications and Information developed a mechanism of payment through the "E-government" website.

The traditional practice of paying fines foresees the necessity to stand in two lines - at a bank and the subdivision of administrative practice.

Read more: Drivers in Kazakhstan to pay bills by E-Government

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.

Read more: KZ: E-government to launch new services