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Public service to be fully digitalized to eradicate corruption and bureaucracy
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Corruption and bureaucracy in government services will cease to
exist in Mongolia with a digital transformation, officials noted at the
‘E-Mongolia’ discussion organized by the Offices of the President and
Parliament of Mongolia, Government of Mongolia, and the 'e-Governance Academy'
non-profit think tank and consultancy organization, a joint initiative of the
Government of Estonia, Open Society Institute (OSI) and the United
Nations Development Programme, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December
4.
At the discussion, Estonia’s experience of completely digitizing
its government services was shared. As a result of the country’s digital
transformation over the past 17 years, corruption and bureaucracy in the
delivery of its government services vanished.
In his address, President of Mongolia Kh.Battulga noted that
Mongolia was placed 62nd in the World Digital Competitiveness
Ranking calculated on the basis of 51 ranking criteria.
Even though foundation for digital services has been laid we are failing to use information technology. For instance, only
24 thousand of the total 400 thousand drivers used the newly digitized vehicle
tax payment system and this requires additional legal regulations. However, the
role of private sector, universities, research institutes, and international
organizations is crucial to achieving complete digitalization as only
government organizations’ efforts for this would be futile, the President
noted.
There are some 10 countries in the world that combined
government and private sector services in digitalization. From their
experience, the most suitable one for Mongolia is that of Estonia’s, said Head
of the Cabinet Secretariat L.Oyun-Erdene. “Thus, we intend to establish a
memorandum of cooperation with the country’s government to launch a five-year
program to digitize Mongolia. After five years, we will be at the same level
with Estonia. Specifically, around 90 percent of the government services will
be rid of bureaucracy and provided 150 times faster then,” he added.
To establish new company, for example, now it takes 1-2 days for
permissions, however it would take 3-5 minutes through mobile phone when public
service is digitized.
The Head of the Cabinet Secretariat also emphasized that digital
transformation of government services will put an end to corruption and
bureaucracy as no government official will be able to take advantage of their
power with that.
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