The Activities in Bosnia Herzegovina Continue to Give Institutional Support to the Directorate for CIPS

During the first week of October in Sarajevo, under the Twinning Light Capacity Building of the Directorate for CIPS (Citizen Identification Protection System) a mission with the key objective of supporting the Directorate for CIPS (Citizen Identification Protection System) for the implementation of new organizational procedures, was held. A series of operational meetings were organized in which Formez experts took part, among whom Karl Giacinti, Claudia Salvi, Natasa Margetic and Leonardo Minervini. During the work visit, the Italian structure released the first version of the comparative study referring to e-Government services for Bosnia-Herzegovina as the beneficiary of the project, Italy as the leading project partner, and Estonia. The latter was considered to be of particular interest in the sphere of e-Government services in the European Union. In the past, the project led to the realization of a study visit to Estonia during which the Estonian model was examined. The comparative study introduces some of the key documents which have been recently published, namely the Report on the national progress on e-Government in the Europe of 27 which was presented on the occasion of the Ministerial Conference on e-Government held in Lisbon on September 19th 2007, as well as the survey “The User Challenge: Benchmarking the Supply of Online Public Services” which was drafted by Capgemini for the European Commission and published in September 2007. Finally, the “UN E-Government Survey 2008” was drafted by the United Nations with the aim to examine the state of the art of e-government and e-participation in 192 countries at international level.
With regard to the analysis of the Italian scenario, the organizational structure of Italy is outlined with specific reference to the organization of e-Government services as well as CNIPA activities and the future organization of e-Government services in Italy. Finally, the study analyzes in depth the activities of the Directorate for CIPS in Bosnia and those related to the new government agencies. The definitive version will be available by the end of 2008.
Parallel to this in the city of Banja Luka, the capital of the Serbian entity in Bosnia, the Monitoring Committee of the project was held a few days after the Directorate for CIPS was transformed into the New Agency for the issue of identity documents and a register for the exchange of Bosnia-Herzegovina “personal” data. The meeting was also an occasion for planning the training activities on personal security and the logic of sensitive data foreseen in the coming months.