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E-Government

Korea to work on Bulgaria e-govt project

By Pia Rufino | 15 March 2011

The Bulgarian government will collaborate with South Korea and Portugal government to develop its e-government project, Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov and Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Purvan Roussinov said.

The government will allocate about BGN 35 million (US$ 24,937,626) under the European Union’s administrative capacity operational programme for the project for this year, Deputy Finance Minister Boryana Pencheva said.

Bulgaria will share best practices with South Korea through the Centre for Information Technology Cooperation (CITC), the Transport Ministry said.

“We will work on four projects, but our main goal is to transfer the best practices of the Republic of Korea to the Bulgarian e-government,” the CITC General Director Nedyu Popivanov said.

The Korean government will provide CICT with $1.5 million for three years, Popivanov said.

Meanwhile, Bulgaria’s cooperation with Portugal was agreed during Dyankov’s visit to the Southwestern European country, where he was briefed on the Simplex programme, intended to reduce administrative burdens and simplify administrative procedures for citizens.

In terms of the EU’s requirements, online administration services in Bulgaria should be available to 50 per cent of the population and 80 per cent of business by 2015.

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