INFORUM 2006 - 12. Annual Conference On Professional Information Resources

Electronic Portal for Local Government ePUSA [poster / contribution]

Author: Jaroslav Svoboda,  Ministry of Interior - Department on Public Administration Informatics, Czech Republic

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Abstract

The electronic portal of local governments – ePUSA (www.epusa.cz) is a common project of the Association of Regions of the Czech Republic and the Ministry of the Interior, which resolves contacts to regions, towns and municipalities up to level of contact workers. The necessity of keeping and provision of such data is given by the relevant Acts – on Territorial Division of the State, on Free Access to Information, on Crisis Management, on Municipalities, on Regions and on Capital City of Prague. ePUSA system meets conditions of the above mentioned regulations in terms of publishing of contact data to regional and municipal offices, which can be used by citizens or by other bodies.

The application of information and communication technologies represent an effective instrument in terms of saving, updating and searching of contact data concerning to the local governments, which can be used in continual operation of the web environment (www.epusa.cz). The application enables to distribute even the remote control over necessary information after Standard ISVS – Statutory disclosed information (17 items). Responsibilities can be agreed with different levels of local government in the territory. In this sense are the realized web services for cooperation with other projects, e.g. the web services of the Portal of Public Administration portal.gov.cz (under cooperation with the Ministry of Informatics).

About the author

Born 1947, graduated in technical cybernetics on Czech Technical University (1971), research on applied technologies in the Research Institute on Powder Metalurgy Šumperk (1971-1991) on measurement, metrology, reliability and application ICT. Public Administration – municipality Šumperk (1991 – 2001) and ICT project manager in the Ministry of Interior for local selfgovernment and eGovernment.