ZAGREB, January 22, 2018) – A 13 million kuna grant agreement on the establishment of an integral system for the management of Croatia’s official documents, which would make those documents more available to the public, was signed at the Central State Office for the Development of Digital Society on Monday.
The agreement was signed by Labour and Pension System Minister Marko Pavić and the Secretary-General of the Central State Office for the Development of Digital Society, Bernard Gršić.
The European Social Fund, worth more than 10 billion kuna, includes 670 million kuna for Croatia, namely for the digitisation and reform of its public administration, for facilitating digitisation and enhancing human resources, said Pavić.
One of the first projects by the Central State Office focuses on digitisation and on connecting data bases to increase transparency and efficiency. That is one of the first projects in that fund, designed to reform state and public administration, Pavić said, noting that more than 800 public administration employees would be trained so that available tools could be used in the most efficient way.
The Labour and Pension System Ministry will help this and similar projects that are designed to help develop an open government and make document use open as well as facilitate digitisation and computerisation, said Pavić.
Gršić said that that project would launch a process of full digitisation of all official documents made by public authorities, local and regional government and state institutions.
Those documents have been available on the web portal of the central catalogue of official state documents (HIDRA) since the 1990s, when HIDRA was established, as well as later at the government’s digital documentation centre.
The Central State Office for the Development of Digital Society is the successor to those two institutions and has taken over their materials and will digitise them and make them available in a single place, said Gršić. The expected duration of the project to digitise those documents is three years and already after the first year of the project citizens will be able to access the desired documents in a much simpler and faster way, by using a search engine, said Gršić.
