Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:04

Security of data on Belarusian ID cards emphasized

The data that will be submitted using ID cards will be protected as much as possible, data leaks will be ruled out.

First Deputy Director of the National Center for Electronic Services Sergei Rudnev made the statement during the international forum #GBC in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

Close attention was paid to information security in the course of development of the universal portal for digital services and the nationwide automated information system.

According to the source, the system is fully compliant with all the national standards in this field. The data will be stored on government servers, which are part of the safe data processing infrastructure and meet all the necessary standards. “We can say with confidence that the data that will be submitted using ID cards will be protected as much as possible and data leaks are impossible,” Sergei Rudnev said.

In his words, 195 services are now available on the digital services web portal, including 60 administrative procedures corporations and individuals can order online. The government has also put together a plan to transfer administrative procedures and digital services to the digital form. The plan is supposed to be implemented by 2025. Individuals and corporations will be able to get most of the services online by that time without having to visit government institutions in person.

“In the future we intend to focus on allowing citizens to get all the necessary documents in one click online instead of developing an individual kind of services,” the official noted.

The international forum #GBC (government, business, citizens) is a unique event in the sphere of telecommunications. The main goal of the forum is to present accomplishments and projects in the area of digital government, search for new ways of digitization and interaction between the state and the private sector and citizens by means of information and communication technologies. #GBC is supposed to become a platform for discussing the state, development, and prospects of Belarus' digital future, transition of interaction at all levels to the digital dimension.

The main tasks of the forum include a presentation of accomplishments in the area of digital government and projects in the course of implementing the government program “Digital development of Belarus in 2021-2025”, a demonstration of implemented projects and promising products of IT companies, communications and telecommunications companies, the involvement of interested countries in transboundary interaction in the course of exchanging legal documents, the development of partnership and interagency interaction, the improvement of the IT knowledge of the society.

The forum's organizers are the National Traffic Exchange Center and the National Center for Electronic Services. The event proceeds with support of the Operations and Analysis Center under the President of the Republic of Belarus.

Written by: belta.by

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