These measures, scheduled in the government's plan, are meant to build an "efficient and transparent administration, based on a modern public service, and free from any bureaucratic obstacles."
These measures include the modernization of public administration services through the introduction of new technologies of information and communication and streamlining of procedures issuing administrative documents.
The new taken measures mainly pertain to the sector of Interior and Local assemblies, through new provisions annulling the legalization of copies of original documents and reducing the duration of issueance of the certificate of nationality and the criminal record certificate.
Several achievements have been made in the modernization of public administration services including the scanning of registers of civil status, creation of a national electronic civil database (operational from February), the withdrawal of special birth certificate "12S" nationwide and from consulates abroad.
Furthermore, an operation to correct errors recorded in the electronic register of civil status has been launched. It gradually advances in order to be finalized by December 31.
As from 2014, citizens can withdraw the civil status documents at all local assemblies and their annexes across the country. Thanks to the single desk system, the number of administrative documents issued by the services of the Civil Status was reduced from 29 to 14, like the duration of their issuance, including passports and national ID card.
The fight against bureaucracy, moreover, led to the amendment of the law on tiles and travel documents to simplify administrative procedures for obtaining biometric passports, which will be extended in 2015 and whose validity was thus increased from five to ten years.
Improvement of services offered to citizens
The modernization of the administration also affected justice and information and communication technologies, both of which have submitted in November, two draft laws respectively, on the modernization of justice and the definition of general rules for electronic signature and certification, to the National People's Assembly (Lower House) in order to be discussed.
The law on the modernization of justice constitutes the legal basis governing the general framework for the use of new information and communication technologies and electronic tools in the field of justice, and aims at improving public service for the benefit of citizens, who may withdraw the criminal record and certificate of nationality through the Internet.
Besides, this law is meant to establish a centralized computer system at the Department of Justice to ensure the exchange of documents by e-mail as well as electronic signature and certification.
This legal framework, which will allow several sectors including e-government, e-commerce and e-banking to join the e-governance, is meant to "ensure better management of institutions and facilitate the daily life of citizens and players in the socio-economic field," Minister of Post and Information and Communication Technologies Zohra Derdouri had affirmed.
Several other projects are part of this approach including that relating to the adoption of the national single registration number for each citizen at birth.
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Quelle/Source: AllAfrica, 30.12.2014
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