So far, Tseren Tserenov has received no response from the Economic Development Ministry concerning the acceptability of his proposals.
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Electronic Russia Turns Into Right Advocating Program
The internal reform in Russia’s Economic Development and Trade Ministry led to transferring the design office of Electronic Russia Federal Program to the state administration department of the ministry. In the wake of it, Tseren Tserenov, who is in charge of the program, presented to higher officials the concept of combining the Administrative Reform and the Electronic Russia.
On July 13, the concept of integrating the Administrative Reform and the Electronic Russia Federal Target Program went to Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrey Sharonov and to a few other top-ranked bureaucrats of the ministry, said Tseren Tserenov, who supervises elaboration of this target program in the ministry. The program is aimed at accelerating informatization of the government’s administration and is usually called the Electronic Government program in the West.
Till reorganization of the ministry, the Electronic Russia’s masterminds have been rather independent. Nowadays, the team is subordinate to the ministry’s state administration department, which approach to the program differs from the views of developers.
In Tserenov’s interpretation, the key provision of the Electronic Russia is to defend residents from “computerized bureaucrats.” By combining two reforms, the masterminds hope to provide the free-for-all access to the bulk information related to state administration. Tserenov calls for mandatory internal and external information audit of the state divisions to be carried out by some private firms and advocates equal rights for paper records and electronic documents.
But the ministry will hardly hail a new concept. For bureaucrats, both the Electronic Russia and Administrative Reform have no place for the electronic state, one of the masterminds complained.
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All the Article in Russian as of July 18, 2006
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