The Digital Hungary Agency (DMÜ) was established, from September eleven state IT companies and a budget body with around five thousand employees from four ministries joined the newly formed organization, CEO Zoltán Guller announced at a background meeting in Budapest on Monday.
Zoltán Guller, who is also the ministerial commissioner responsible for the operation of the organization, said that four priority projects will be launched, one of which is the creation of digital citizenship in 2023. As an example, he mentioned that identification will not require an identity card, which can be done via mobile phone. The goal is to achieve digital identification by 2026 and to do everything digitally.
In the future, DMÜ will perform state tasks related to e-public administration, IT, the unification of e-public administration and IT developments, electronic communication activities for governmental purposes, and ensuring the infrastructural feasibility of public administration IT.
"A new timeline has begun in the field of government IT with clear goals and a customer-oriented approach," said Zoltán Guller. By the end of the year, the companies will be screened, and due to many parallels, a new system will be created based on successful foreign examples.
He said: the new operating system will be implemented in eight months. At the moment, more than thirty strategies affect the field of state IT, according to the plans, there will be a single strategy, which will be developed by the end of the year - he listed and indicated: they are planning to launch a public consultation on many issues.
They are investigating the government's cloud strategy and the implementation of the data-driven state institutional system. He cited tourism as an example, where data-driven decision-making has already been implemented with the introduction of the National Tourist Information Center (NTAK) in 2019, which set the accommodation provider sector on the path to full digitalization.
According to Zoltán Guller, one of the most important goals is to
the public administration should be customer-friendly, converting the existing approximately 1,300 applications into a customer-oriented one for easy, logical administration. Data-based governance will play an important role, he said. The state has an extremely large amount of data available from which decisions can be made and prepared, he called this a priority.
The operation of the DMÜ is supervised by the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office, and in order to rationalize the operation, the DMÜ will act as a kind of umbrella organization.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
Featured image: MTI/Balázs Mohai
