V4DIS--Visegrad Group for Developing Information Society April 2--4, 2006, Prague & Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

Association Czech At appreciated a possibility to issue electronic statements from all-state registers

04/02/2006, 19:00

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Within the programme of ceremonial gathering on the eve of an opening of the international conference ISSS 2006 in Hradec Kralove, there were announced results of Czech At competition. This year the prize was awarded to two subjects of public administration, which significantly contributed to the development of information society--"Subcommittee for information systems in public administration of Committee for public administration, regional development and environment of Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of CR" and "Ministry of Informatics of CR".

"Main criterion, which the association used at its decision-making about awarding the main prize, was as usually the real contribution to public administration as a whole as well as for the citizens of this country," says RNDr. Tomas Rencin, director of the conference ISSS and a member of the jury of Association Czech At. "In case of Amendment of Act on Information Systems of Public Administration, which considerably simplifies and speeds up administrative procedures as well as facilitates communication of the citizens with authorities, we agreed in principle unanimously."

In 2006 Association Czech At decided to award both above mentioned subjects for successful enforcement of essential enlargement of range of places, which are authorized to issue verified statements from official registers and databases, to the draft of the Amendment of Act on Information Systems of Public Administration.

The prize was taken over by Dana Berova on behalf of Ministry of Informatics of CR and by Tom Zajicek on behalf of Subcommittee for information systems in public administration of Committee for public administration, regional development and environment of Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of CR.

From history of Czech At competition

In the first year in 1999 this award was given to the minister of justice, Otakar Motejl for accessing the Companies Register (www.justice.cz) on Internet and also for a long-term free access to the needs of general public.

In 2000 jury awarded Office of Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of CR for the project Digital library Czech Parliament (www.psp.cz/eknih) with archives of digitalized stenographic reports from the meetings of Czech Parliament from 1918 to the present.

In 2001 the prize was awarded to the Ministry of Interior of CR for projects Search for vehicles, Invalid documents and Authority is not a labyrinth run on the internet pages www.mvcr.cz.

In 2003 there won a project "Common Czecho-Slovak digital parliament libraries", which was partaken in by Parliament library of CR Office of Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of CR and Department of informatics of Senate Chancellery and Parliament library, Parliament archives and Department of informatics of Chancellery of National Council of the Slovak Republic.

In 2004 there was awarded a project of the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre "Looking in to the Cadastre of Real Estate"--a permanent and free of charge service available to all internet users, which enables to get chosen data from the Cadastre of Real Estate as well as information about the state of separate cases filed at the relevant cadastral workplace and that is both for purposes of making entries of proprietary and other rights and for purposes of certification of geometric plans.

In 2005 a main prize was not awarded, but there were awarded two certificates of merit and that is for the project of Czech savings bank, a. s.--"Verification of ownership of a real estate via remote access to the Cadastre of Real Estate for needs of judging mortgage credits" and the project of the Authority of town district Prague 6--"Verification of ownership of a real estate via remote access to the Cadastre of Real Estate".

Organizer of the competition is Association Czech At, U Svobodarny 12/1110, 190 00 Praha 9.

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