The creation of new national systems

In the 7th development plan, the parliament required the ministries to remove parallel systems and while creation of new national systems, it will be with the permission of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

According to the IDEA, today (November 5, 2023) during the review of the 7th development program bill, Article 107, paragraph “T” of this program was approved, according to which ministries and government institutions are obliged: “Regarding the design and management of joint systems, in The headquarters of the ministries and independent government institutions and remove parallel systems within the framework of their digital transformation program, take action and implement it.

In the note of this paragraph from Article 107, the Ministry of Communications is responsible for granting the license to set up national and cross-sectoral systems. It is mentioned in this note: “In order to avoid parallel work and save the government’s expenses, during the years of the implementation of the program, it is possible to launch any new system with a national and cross-sectoral scope only after obtaining a license from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.”

This ministry should determine the task one month from the date of receipt of the request regarding the necessity of setting up and non-parallelism of their work and notify the result. Executive bodies are obliged to cooperate and implement the provisions of this notification.

Improving the development indicators of electronic government

Also, the representatives approved Article 107, Clause C, which states: “Implement the necessary measures for the development of the smart government in order to promote national and international indicators, including the international index of electronic government development.” The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, in cooperation with the administrative and employment organization of the country, is obliged to prepare and notify the relevant guidelines and regulations within three months after the entry into force of this law.

Also, by approving paragraph C of this article, the representatives obliged the ministries and government institutions to provide their services online and securely by the end of the first year of implementation of the 7th plan and “at least 20 of their electronic services annually for all legal entities and natural persons above 18 years old through the “National Window of Smart Government Services” in a smart way without going in person and without the intervention of human agents or obtaining documents and documents manually.

The executive regulations of this section, including the examples of services and how to smarten and optimize the relevant processes, will be prepared by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in cooperation with the administrative and employment organization of the country within 3 months after the entry into force of this law, and will be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.

In the note of this paragraph, it is stated: “The civil registration organization of the country is obliged to start a national identity database of natural and legal persons with the possibility of identifying the causal and relative relationships of natural persons and family identification. This organization, in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, is obliged to provide authentication services in providing electronic services to all public and private sectors within one year after the entry into force of this law.

Also, executive bodies in charge of basic databases, the subject of the National Data and Information Management Law, must complete their database program by the end of the first year. In the continuation of paragraph 3, it is stated: “From the beginning of the second year of the program, data and information exchange and any response to the inquiries required by other executive bodies and businesses should be carried out completely instantly and online based on the national data and information law. The e-government interoperability working group should submit a report on the implementation of this clause to the Islamic Council.