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Transforming Government since 2001

SK: Slowakei / Slovakia

  • Authorities change Slovensko.sk, without procurement tender

    National agency directly chose GlobalTel and Swan Mobile, companies that also supply the whole public information system, for the new investment.

    The website that is the gateway to e-government in Slovakia has been criticised for its weak usability and high costs. The state has now decided to change it - by pouring millions of euros into the project.

  • e-Health in Slovakia?

    e-Health – health care supported by electronic processes – is one of the ten priorities of the eEurope 2005 Action Plan, an initiative of the European Union to provide Internet access to European citizens and companies. e-Health’s aim is to create user-friendly and interoperable information systems for patients and health-care professionals in Europe.

    The basis of e-Health in Slovakia will be the National Health Information System – the system intended to provide services and information regarding health care. It is expected to be available in 2012. A common communication interface for persons and other information systems to access this system will be provided by the National Health Portal. It will offer information on medicinal products, medical equipment health-care providers, and it will also be the site that publishes information and warnings in the event of epidemics or other medically-relevant matters or threats.

  • eEurope auf slowakisch: Preßburg beschließt Aktionsplan

    Die slowaksiche Regierung beschließt eine E-Government-Strategie um Brüsseler Vorgaben umzusetzen.

    Die slowakische Regierung macht Ernst mit ihren Internetambitionen. Am 21. Jänner 2004 beschloss das Kabinett eine "Strategie für die Informationsgesellschaft" und verabschiedete einen Aktionsplan.

  • Innovatrics Partners with PosAm on Biometric App for e-Government Services in Slovakia

    Innovatrics has teamed up with PosAm to make it easier for Slovakian citizens to gain access to municipal services. The companies are hoping to replace the card-based system currently being used in the country, which forces the user to have an ID with a chip, a device that can read that chip, and a Windows PC to verify their identity before using a digital service.

    To that end, Innovatrics and PosAm are working together to develop a solution that will allow Slovakians to complete the entire authentication process through a smartphone. The solution will integrate the former’s Digital Onboarding Toolkit into the mID mobile application from PosAm, which will negate the need for a chip ID during an identity check. Once their identities have been confirmed, Slovakians will be able to use their mobile devices to coordinate garbage collection, apply for fishing permits, and take advantage of other municipal services.

  • SK: eHealth aims to ensure medical efficiency

    Now seven years in preparation, doctors ask for help implementing the system.

    A SICK man gets out his health insurance card and puts it into a terminal at a doctor’s office. His general practitioner prepares a diagnosis and then, without a referral slip to a specialist or a pharmacy prescription, the patient moves on to the specialist for another examination or to the pharmacy where he picks up his medications by putting the same card into another terminal. This is how the Slovak health care is supposed to work via the eHealth electronic system that is to begin in 2017.

  • SK: Importance of ICT sector increases

    Eset, IBM, T-Systems and mobile operators in addition to dozens of small companies comprise the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in Slovakia.

    Even though it is not in the spotlight of the media and state support as, for example, the automotive industry, its importance cannot be overlooked either thanks to its contribution to Slovakia’s economy as well as the fact that nowadays nobody can imagine the world without ICT technologies. And while Slovakia’s ICT companies fare well internationally, they would still like to see better conditions in Slovakia for doing business and more attention also from the state.

  • SK: Parliament passes amendment on eGovernment

    The Slovak Parliament passed a legislative amendment on eGovernment on September 23. The bill was submitted by the Finance Ministry and leads to significant changes in three areas.

    The first change to be introduced by the so-called electronic government bill concerns the conditions and methods of identification and authentication of individuals via computer. The draft bill has been aimed at making the legal norm more precise and to supplement it so that the rules of identification and authentication are applied exclusively to public administration, and thus prevent any contradictions in interpreting it, for example for use in internal communication between public administrative bodies, the ministry explained, as quoted by the TASR newswire.

  • SK: All state offices now communicate online

    Also courts will have to communicate mostly in electronic form.

    All state bodies and institutions are to communicate electronically by preference as of November 1, using electronic letterboxes.

    Although this duty was introduced on November 1, 2013, the amendment to the law on e-government postponed the duty for those authorities which could not use the electronic communication due to technical problems, in particular the courts.

  • SK: Almost 80 % of doctors send their statistical returns electronically

    78.6 % of doctors in Slovakia sent their statistical returns by electronic means in 2010, it was announced on 6 September 2011. This represents an increase of almost a third on 2009's figure, and this trend is seen as positive, since electronic transmission is more efficient than its paper-based equivalents.

    Doctors are legally obliged to supply statistical information to the Slovakian National Health Information Center (NHIC; Národné centrum zdravotníckych informácií - NCZI, in Slovak). The NHIC uses this information to support a system that enables healthcare professionals to inspect the statistics on diseases and treatments and to monitor the development of the health of the population. The NHIC also provides publications which monitor such issues as the number of cancer patients, the number of drug addicts, the occurrence of industrial accidents, and statistics on hospital admissions.

  • SK: Could Bratislava’s startup scene build a Smart City?

    The idea of a smart city is no longer just an image we see in futuristic movies.

    Although technology may not have mastered flying vehicles just yet, a number of locations around the world are utilising the growth of technology and innovation by applying it to their surrounding landscapes. The term smart city is not only being thrown around more frequently but has also become an important feature that city builders consider, from additions in new apartments to more efficient transport links.

  • SK: eID cards to be issued from December 2012

    From 1 December 2012, Slovakia will issue ID cards incorporating an electronic chip, it was announced on 1 February 2012. ID cards without the electronic chip will be issued until the end of November 2012, and those cards issued with an unlimited validity period will continue to be valid after this.

    This development stems from an amendment to the law on identity cards, which the Slovakian parliament passed in November 2011. This amendment is linked to the electronic identity (eID) card project which the Interior Ministry implements. This project aims to reduce bureaucracy, save citizens time, and provide faster and more efficient communication with the authorities. The new eID card will facilitate safer access to services, the use of qualified electronic signatures, and also the possibility of using the card to store other kinds of data.

  • SK: Future of national eHealth programme established as preparatory phase ends

    The preparatory phase of Slovakia's national eHealth programme has now been completed, and the future shape of the project has been formally ratified, it was announced on 28 July 2011. Significant changes have been agreed, and the implementation of the resulting programme is expected to cost €120 million less than the original project.

    The Ministry of Health (Ministerstvo zdravotníctva SR), in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance (Ministerstvom financií SR), representatives of healthcare providers, professional organisations in healthcare and health insurance companies have completed the preparatory phase in the implementation of the eHealth programme. Many aspects of the project have undergone significant changes during this phase.

  • SK: Interior Ministry deactivates services requiring e-signature

    The reason is a vulnerability in the chips that are used in Slovak ID cards

    The state is temporarily suspending electronic government services (eGovernment) that require the use of a secured electronic signature. The reason for this step is that the certification authority cancelled the validity of their security certificate, the State Secretary of the Interior Ministry, Denisa Saková, announced on Monday, October 23.

  • SK: New government promises a new era in state IT

    State IT to become more effective, bringing better services for citizens and businesses

    No matter how many millions the state poured into its information systems, it always resulted in slow, inefficient, and uncooperative IT services for individuals and businesses. Weak cooperation between individual ministries and state organisations, and information asymmetry when state administration lacked IT experts to assess the quality of proposed and supplied IT solutions, were marked as the most frequent culprits.

  • SK: Preparatory phase of the eHealth Programme launched

    The preparatory phase of the Slovakian eHealth Programme was launched on 23 March 2011. It will last until 30 June 2011, and aims to establish the key strategic issues and provide financial and organisational conditions for the future implementation of the Programme.

    The preparatory phase was launched by the Ministry of Health under the leadership of Ivana Uhliarika and the Ministry of Finance under the leadership of Ivana Mikloša. Its successful implementation is a prerequisite for launching the first phase of the eHealth Programme.

  • SK: President signs eGovernment Act

    Less bureaucracy is the aim of the eGovernment Act passed by the Slovak parliament, which President Ivan Gašparovič signed into law, the SITA newswire reported on September 23.

    The law obliges all state bodies to accept and respond to citizens’ requests and motions electronically. A citizen should also be able to receive official documents in his or her personal electronic mailbox, the SITA newswire reported.

  • SK: Revolutionizing the delivery of official correspondence

    Eventually everyone will be required to monitor and use government e-mailboxes

    In recent years, The Slovak Government has made some well publicized attempts at digitalising the operation of state and local authorities, its latest push being the activation of official e-mailboxes, forcing all entities registered in the Slovak Business Registry (Commercial Registry) to use these E-mailboxes from July 1st, 2017 onwards.

  • SK: Smart cities attract investment and talent. How smart is Bratislava?

    The Smart City Index focuses on how citizens perceive the scope and impact of efforts to make their cities ‘smart’.

    In the world ranking of smart cities, Bratislava placed 76th out of 109 cities worldwide this year. Compared with last year’s primary edition of the IMD Smart City Index, it improved its ranking by eight positions. But within the V4 only Budapest, which ended just behind Bratislava in 77th place, had worse results.

  • SK: The use of e-letterboxes still minimal

    Companies are obliged to start e-communication as of July, though state authorities are not even fully prepared.

    Paper letters informing recipients about late payments or court rulings will no longer be sent as of this summer. This is the state’s plan after it created e-letterboxes for thousands of entrepreneurs to receive official mail. The plan, however, seems to be endangered as nearly half of the companies have not yet activated their e-letterbox.

  • Slovak eGovernment Act to be ready by August 2011

    The Slovak Minister of Finance is expected to submit draft legislation governing the implementation of the computerization of the public administration by 1 August 2011.

    This task was imposed by the government.

    The aim of the forthcoming regulation is to stipulate general rules for eGovernment performance, including related legal institutions, and provide for the implementation of eGovernment in a uniform manner without the need for any specific legislation that provides for individual performance.

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