According to the Kazakh Ministry of Communication and Information, the volume of e-services rendered to the citizens of Kazakhstan e-government is continuing to grow.
To date, the portal has issued 8.67 million electronic certificates with about 800 thousand Kazakhstan citizens possessing digital signatures.
Now the procedure of obtaining a digital signature is simplified considerably and takes only a few minutes.
Holders of a digital signature do not have to leave home to make an appointment at a public service centre, pay utilities, taxes or fines issued by the traffic police.
Saken Sarsenov, Deputy Kazakh Minister of Communication and Information: «Payment for traffic violations fines online has seen a four-fold. Since the beginning of 2011, this sum has reached 3.35 million tenge. The amount of taxes paid online has increased 3 times. Since the beginning of 2011, e-government portal users have paid 10 million tenge online for various services and fines.»
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Quelle/Source: Caspionet, 23.11.2011