Already at the beginning of next year, citizens will be able to check via the Internet whether their employers are paying their contributions, and the first more concrete activities are planned for the introduction of a single document for identification that will combine the identity card, driver's license, health...
Platforms for citizens' participation in decision-making will be improved - E-participation and E-petitions, and the plan is to standardize all municipal portals in the future.
These are, among other things, the activities envisaged by the Action Plan of the Partnership for Open Government (OGP), which was adopted recently.
State Secretary in the Ministry of Public Administration (MJU) Goran Jovetić told "Vijesta" that the Action Plan includes five key obligations, within which 23 activities will be implemented.
Among the key obligations, he said, are the improvement of public services, citizen participation, access to information - openness of state administration bodies, more efficient management of public resources and increase in public integrity.
"The principle of the Operative type was to have concrete and tangible projects with which we will improve a certain public service or provide citizens with better access to public administration..."
Jovetić says that the action plan was created to the greatest extent through the principle of increasing access to new technologies for the openness and responsibility of public administration.
Among the activities planned in the Action Plan are the national identification document, which should enable easier access to electronic public administration services for citizens and the economy, as well as all other electronic services.
By standardizing the portals of local self-governments, the aim is to contribute to the convergence of online access, but also to measure the satisfaction of citizens and businesses with the services provided by administration and public services.
Citizens will also have at their disposal a service for identifying and reporting infrastructural problems, with which, as they say from the MJU, they want to encourage civic responsibility, influence the preservation of safety, environmental protection, and the valorization of physical conditions for work and life.
Along with the online application "Does your employer pay contributions?", a service for checking the M4 form via the Internet will also be available.
The plan is to establish a national system for the collection of administrative fees, and to enable the use of open data in order to support start-up businesses.
Jovetić said that membership in the OGP initiative is voluntary, but that it is important for Montenegro to participate in these activities, because through the initiative "democracy is inherited".
"In the last two years, important steps have been taken to improve the efficiency and quality of services provided by the public administration to citizens and the economy. A lot has been done, but we still have challenges to deal with, and this is one of the ways. The plan was prepared in an honest and open atmosphere of cooperation between the government and civil society, as well as the Chamber of Commerce and contains measures that are relevant for Montenegro and its citizens and economy".
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