Skopje, 28 June 2024 (MIA) - The Ministry of Digital Transformation will digitize 20 services that will be available at web-portal uslugi.gov.mk in the first 100 days of the Government, ten of which for businesses and ten others for citizens, said Minister Stefan Andonovski on Friday.

"We are saying goodbye to waiting in lines, overcrowded windows or dialling the wrong numbers. These e-services will ensure easy and simple realization of administrative tasks from one's home, office or on the go," Minister Andonovski told reporters.

He added that cybersecurity would be in the focus of the Ministry, because it is the basis for building trust in the system while protecting citizens' privacy.

"We will work on fast and dynamic digital transformation, we will be efficient so that citizens feel the benefits of our efforts right away. Our objective is to have satisfied citizens using government services in an easy, fast and efficient way, in parallel with countering corruption, preventing brain drain, but also having functional institutions, protected data and systems, as well as free and developed media sector," said Andonovski.

He announced that working groups would draft a National ICT Strategy and a National Cybersecurity Strategy, based on the existing documents but also through involvement of all stakeholders, including international partners, chambers, academia.

"The strategies will focus on digital connectivity, ICT infrastructure, digital skills, e-government, digitization of companies, ICT enablers and digital innovations," noted Andonovski.

According to him, digitization is inevitable and the government is strongly motivated to root out corruption with the help of digitization.

"Youth and education will be in our focus, we will build a digital future and invest in training and education. We will promote high standards in technological development so that the country can again be positioned as the center of tech innovation and a regional IT industry leader," underlined Andonovski.

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