On 10 April 2012, Softline IT took part in the round table "Implementation of a Unified Information and Communication Platform for Ukrainian Government Authorities", organized by the National Commission for the State Regulation of Communications and Informatization and the Administration of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.
The round table was attended by NCCIR Chairman Petro Yatsuk, members of the Commission and staff of the NCCIR office, representatives of the Administration of the State Special Communications Service and of government authorities, and heads of leading IT companies.
The participants stressed the urgency of creating a unified information and communication platform for government authorities. Further development of informatization and the building of an information society in the country are impossible without effective inter-agency interaction at the level of information systems. This interaction must be based on uniform standards governing the formation of registers and data exchange between government authorities, businesses and citizens.
The development of informatization in the country is held back by, among other things, a vague definition of priority areas of development, an imperfect regulatory framework and the lack of regulatory documents: uniform standards, regulations, data exchange protocols and classifiers. Nevertheless, despite the existing problems, Ukraine's information and communication sector in its current state has great potential for development, which opens up new prospects for the country as a whole. The first step towards solving these problems should be the creation and adoption of a unified regulatory and legislative framework for managing state registers.
Speaking at the event, Anton Marrero, Honorary President of Softline IT (he is now a member of the Supervisory Board of the Intecracy Group consortium), noted that there are currently 40 registers that could become the basis for e-government. "Today we have the opportunity to automate services for the public, but for that all government institutions need access to primary sources. We need to create a common regulatory framework and reference information. And for this there is no need at all to create new registers; it is enough simply to draw up exchange regulations. And we will get a common information base." Anton Marrero cited the example of Estonia, where such a system was created on the initiative of banks and has been working quite well for many years. He also said that Ukraine currently lags behind many CIS countries on this issue, which means that work to eliminate the problem must begin immediately.
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Given the scale of the issue addressed by the round table and the interest of various parties in resolving it, the participants agreed that clear coordination of work is needed to stimulate the process. The round table participants therefore agreed to join the efforts of Ukrainian government authorities and business representatives in order to move in the same direction, and to that end to ensure that such events are organized and held on a regular basis.
Commenting on the event on the sidelines of the round table, Oleksandr Smyrnov, Vice President of Softline IT LLC, said that it could confidently be called a landmark one, as the state is taking another important step towards implementing e-government. "In fact, elements of the system have already been created. All that remains is to link them to each other," he said.