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104 | Local e-Governement in Czech Républic
Because public administration and public services are decentralized, local
authorities like municipalities and regions are responsible for defining e-
government strategies and policies to implement the process within their
spheres of competences.
It can be noticed that the coordination of local authorities in e-government
process is often realized by the Ministry of Interior. This situation has often
been observed in the Visegrad group countries. The support of this Ministry
intends to provide cities and municipalities with technical solutions to help
them to implement e-government services. Indeed because of the financial
costs of the implementation of e-services, the Ministry of Interior has to en-
sure that the process does not hinder the local financial situation.
This process has been observed in some central and eastern countries. In
Poland, the Ministry of Interior provides support to digital technologies at
local level. Then, framework agreements have been signed between the Min-
istry responsible for Information Society and some regional authorities for
6
the development of regional gateways .
This way of modernizing public administrations has been observed in Czech
Republic. In this country, a significant example of the implementation of the
e-government is that of the “Data box”. Implemented between 2007 and
2009, the information system of Data box is a register of a person’s electron-
ic communications with the public authorities. Each Czech public body has
an obligation to have and activate its own Data box. The data box has be-
7
come active since November 2009 . This system allows citizens to use the
document they contain to deal with public administrations. So they can ac-
cess all public requests through a one stop-point, rather than queuing and
having to visit many offices. Moreover, the data box information system can
be used for electronic invoicing since January 2010 and for the exchange of
information among private entities since July 2010. Even if some authors
consider that “the data box application is not sufficiently technically and user
8
elaborated” , this tool contributes to modernize the relations between Czech
citizens and public administrations.
Obviously, local authorities cannot stay dissociated from this e-service. In
other words, local authorities have no other choice than implementing
change to build an e-local government because digital technologies are
6 See for example, framework agreements signed with the regions of Malopolska, Opole,
Pomerania and Podlasie.
7 Cf. the Act 300/2008 Coll., on Electronic Actions and Authorized Document
Conversion.
8 J. Jarolimek, J. Vanek, E. Cervenkova, V. Smiskova, “Evaluation of data box introduc-
tion process in the Czech Republic”, Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics,
Volume II , Number 2, 2010.
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Because public administration and public services are decentralized, local
authorities like municipalities and regions are responsible for defining e-
government strategies and policies to implement the process within their
spheres of competences.
It can be noticed that the coordination of local authorities in e-government
process is often realized by the Ministry of Interior. This situation has often
been observed in the Visegrad group countries. The support of this Ministry
intends to provide cities and municipalities with technical solutions to help
them to implement e-government services. Indeed because of the financial
costs of the implementation of e-services, the Ministry of Interior has to en-
sure that the process does not hinder the local financial situation.
This process has been observed in some central and eastern countries. In
Poland, the Ministry of Interior provides support to digital technologies at
local level. Then, framework agreements have been signed between the Min-
istry responsible for Information Society and some regional authorities for
6
the development of regional gateways .
This way of modernizing public administrations has been observed in Czech
Republic. In this country, a significant example of the implementation of the
e-government is that of the “Data box”. Implemented between 2007 and
2009, the information system of Data box is a register of a person’s electron-
ic communications with the public authorities. Each Czech public body has
an obligation to have and activate its own Data box. The data box has be-
7
come active since November 2009 . This system allows citizens to use the
document they contain to deal with public administrations. So they can ac-
cess all public requests through a one stop-point, rather than queuing and
having to visit many offices. Moreover, the data box information system can
be used for electronic invoicing since January 2010 and for the exchange of
information among private entities since July 2010. Even if some authors
consider that “the data box application is not sufficiently technically and user
8
elaborated” , this tool contributes to modernize the relations between Czech
citizens and public administrations.
Obviously, local authorities cannot stay dissociated from this e-service. In
other words, local authorities have no other choice than implementing
change to build an e-local government because digital technologies are
6 See for example, framework agreements signed with the regions of Malopolska, Opole,
Pomerania and Podlasie.
7 Cf. the Act 300/2008 Coll., on Electronic Actions and Authorized Document
Conversion.
8 J. Jarolimek, J. Vanek, E. Cervenkova, V. Smiskova, “Evaluation of data box introduc-
tion process in the Czech Republic”, Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics,
Volume II , Number 2, 2010.
RIMD – n o 3 – 2012
