How Digitalization can empower the status of women
At the site of the International Digital Forum, Digital Almaty held a roundtable discussion “Digitalization to improve the social and economic status of women”.
Lyazzat Ramazanova, Deputy Chair of the National Commission for Women, Family and Demographic Policy, noted that women's entrepreneurship is actively developing in Kazakhstan today, while a significant part of it is still concentrated in the micro and small business segment.
“Within the framework of the National Commission, a pilot project was launched to open women's entrepreneurship support centres in each region of Kazakhstan. This is a unique project because without having the concept of “women's entrepreneurship” in the Entrepreneurial Code, we are nevertheless moving in this direction. This is a huge achievement for the women entrepreneurs!
Today, 20 centres are open, and the number of services delivered has exceeded 30,000,” she said.
Asset Turyssov, Vice Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry informed us how is progressing the transfer of public services from a service to a proactive format. Women should be the first to appreciate such an integrated approach.
The Vice Minister explained: using the example of a bureaucratic birth of a child, an integrated approach was to study, what needs to be done to improve the situation of women who are waiting for the child.
“This is the principle of the “invisible state”, when a person feels help, and support, but does not contact physically the state,” Turyssov said.
During the comprehensive analysis, was a pointed lack of awareness of information, when many women do not know how to register as a future mother, how to apply for maternity leave, what privileges they are entitled to etc. Officials were unpleasantly surprised by the number of papers and various procedures that women have to go through to receive public services. Now, according to him, a complex of services is being worked out in such a way that all procedures take a maximum of one hour and without direct contact with employees of any structures. This promise was met with thunderous applause by the participants of the discussion.
National expert on social issues Svetlana Zhakupova spoke about the ongoing project “Digital Family Map” - a unique information system that accumulates information from various government agencies. This system makes it possible to determine the level of social well-being of citizens and provide them with guaranteed state support in a proactive format.
Digital Almaty is a traditional dialogue platform for discussing the digital agenda, new strategies for digital transformation, and trends in digital technology. The forum has been held for the fifth time since 2018. The event is organized by the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Akimat of Almaty City, Tech Garden and Astana Hub.
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