OREANDA-NEWS. September 11, 2013. The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the Concept of the State target program for creation and functioning of the information system to provide administrative services for the period up to 2017. The corresponding Regulation No. 614-p was adopted by the Government on July 24, 2013.

At the present stage of development of Ukraine there is a need to create new principles of governance based on the principles of openness and transparency, with the aim of forming a new type of State oriented on satisfaction of needs of citizens and businesses, especially in the provision of administrative services.

The implementation of these principles should be implemented by creating an information system of providing administrative services, ensuring the functioning of which is impossible without the introduction of information technology in the activities of State authorities, authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and local self-government.

International experience, including France and Canada, indicates that the use of information technology while providing administrative services increases the awareness of the public about the procedure and conditions for the provision of administrative services, and also provides the opportunity to significantly increase the efficiency of their provision and create comfortable conditions for the recipients of such services.

The purpose of the program is a creating of accessible and convenient conditions for the realization and protection of the rights, freedoms and lawful interests of individuals and legal persons by implementing activities with the establishment and operation of the electronic system of interagency interaction of State bodies, the unified state portal administrative services, round-the-clock Government telephone inquiries on administrative services.

The program will help to improve the quality of administrative services and the level of awareness of subjects of appeals about them to reduce the financial and time costs of appeals while receiving administrative services provide the information openness and transparency of the activity of providing administrative services to create new jobs. The term of execution of the program is 2013-2017.