Oleksandr Baranov, Director of the Communications Development Strategy Department of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, believes that the imperfection of current Ukrainian legislation on the country's informatization is slowing down the pace of e-government development. He said this on 10 April 2012 during the round table "Implementation of a Unified Information and Communication Platform for Ukrainian Government Authorities".
"Nothing has changed since 2005. The country is stalling. We should be talking about the information society. From a legal point of view, that means 4,000 documents. But they deal with anything at all, and very little with information technology," the expert notes. According to him, the introduction of electronic services is progressing much faster in the CIS. Oleksandr Baranov believes the reason lies in legislators' insufficient competence in information technology. And he gave an example during the round table.
"A law on telemedicine is currently pending in the Verkhovna Rada. It is proposed to start with the creation of a patient register. But this is the worst approach. Functionally, it is unclear what systems would need to be created once the bill is adopted in its current form," says Mr. Baranov. "To get a positive result, IT people must be given the right tasks."
Oleksandr Baranov noted that it is only thanks to the high competence of IT specialists from private companies involved in developing government information systems that the situation is not that bad. The expert has a vision of how to integrate heterogeneous databases into a single information space, and, in his words, it fully coincides with the vision of Anton Marrero, Honorary President of Softline IT:
"There is a problem of interaction between information systems. These tasks require exchange. Systems must 'communicate' with each other. In all areas. Exchange formats are one of the main tasks. I support Anton Marrero. We need an integration solution. Let the old directories remain, but let there also be a master one."
The expert stressed that there is political will to resolve this issue.
"What is missing? We need to consolidate. Ultimately, we will strengthen the country's information security," concluded Oleksandr Baranov, Director of the Communications Development Strategy Department of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.
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