The Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Aleksandar Martinović, PhD, and the Acting Director of the Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment, Milan Latinović, have signed today, on behalf of the Ministry and the Office, the Agreement on the performance of tasks of professional maintenance and improvement of the Registry of Civil Records. The signing of the Agreement was also attended by the Minister of Information and Telecommunications, Mihailo Jovanović.
Minister Martinović has pointed out that the electronic management of official records had significantly improved their up-to-dateness and accuracy of data, and thus the efficiency of the administration’s actions. Emphasizing that the progress of information technologies also requires constant improvements to the Registry of Civil Records, he had recalled that the Ministry and the Office have, in the previous period, successfully established the electronic service eExtract in respect of the civil records.
“With the today’s signing of this Agreement, we continue our good cooperation and ensure that one state body, which has the necessary professional capacities, takes care that the Registry of Civil Records, together with the part related to professional training and powers of civil registrars, functions flawlessly in technical terms, while at the same time keeping pace with the development of the digital environment. Our common aim is to monitor the changes and provide officials with the conditions for efficient performance of their tasks, so that citizens are satisfied with the services provided, i.e. so that they can exercise their rights in a simple way, without wasting time,” Martinović has said.
Minister Jovanović has expressed his expectation that this Agreement will not only improve the registers of civil records, but also contribute to the further development of electronic services aimed at citizens.
“This is a special day for the digitization of public administration because, for the first time, the experts from the Ministry and the Office shall be working, though joint efforts, to maintain and further improve such complex registers as the Register of Births, Register of Marriages and Register of Deaths. This means that we have managed to build such personnel capacities within the public administration, that we have such good and capable IT experts and lawyers that we can stand side-by-side with personnel from the private sector,” Jovanović has pointed out.
Emphasizing that the Agreement represents a continuation of the successful cooperation between the two institutions, the Acting Director of the Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment, Milan Latinović, added that one of the most important registers will continue to be kept and improved under the highest technical and security standards.
“The Agreement was concluded in order to ensure the technical conditions for legal and proper conduct of persons authorized to work with the Registry of Civil Records, through conducting professional maintenance and improvements of the Registry of Civil Records as official records of importance for the efficient operation of authorities and the provision of e-administration services”. Latinović has concluded.
Photo gallery – source: Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment and Tanjug
