With a view to simplifying public services obtainment, 20 public services will be accessible on the e-Government portal since July 1, 2017 with no need for digital signature. The very first service accessible through a one-time SMS password since April this year was the issuance of abstract of no criminal record.

Public services optimization with a view to avoiding citizens’ physical presence was discussed today at the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Bakhytzhan Sagintayev. Attendees at the meeting were also: Minister of Information and Communications Dauren Abayev and the other government agencies’ executives.

Within the first month of campaign named “Register in Out-Patients` Clinic: Identify Your Status in the Statutory Social Medical Insurance (SSMI) System”, 6 654 citizens have been registered through the e-Gov portal. In the first quarter of 2017, more than 19,000 citizens used the online attachment service to the clinics.

On April 29-30, Microsoft Kazakhstan, National Information Technologies JSC and MOST business incubator hosted a hackathon with application of Open Data and Microsoft Azure cloud tools.

The first agricultural portal was launched in Kazakhstan. Aidos Amanbai is the developer of the portal which can be used by all the agrarians countrywide. For his significant project, A.