Access to information in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Today, representatives of the Ministry participated in a regional online meeting on access to information and response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organizer of the meeting was organized by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty.

 

Representatives of authorized state bodies, Ombudsman offices and the non-governmental sector from Central Asia and the South Caucasus also took part in the work.they shared their experience and the latest trends in access to information.

 

The meeting dedicated to the International day of universal access to information aims to raise awareness of the importance of the right to information in times of crisis, as well as to promote the right of citizens to information to save lives and overcome the crisis caused by COVID-19.

 

The UNESCO report "Access to information: a new perspective for sustainable development" was presented (the report is available at the link https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374137/PDF/374137rus.pdf.multi).

 

During the meeting of representatives of the Ministry, Bekzat Rakhimov highlighted the high importance of openness and reliability of information in the fight against the pandemic and elaborated on the work carried out by Kazakhstan in this direction.

 

It should be noted that access to information in Kazakhstan is provided under the relevant law "On access to information", adopted in 2015. 

 

Within the framework of this Law, reporting meetings of Ministers and akims are held in front of the population, online broadcasts of open sessions of the Chambers of Parliament, Government and collegial bodies of Central Executive and local representative and Executive bodies are carried out.

 

There is an Open government portal that includes the following components: open data, open budgets, open RLA, and open dialogue (https://egov.kz/).

 

To ensure the convenience of the country's population, in order to obtain information on the principle of "one window", a single platform of Internet resources of state bodies has been launched (www.gov.kz), which allows you to find all the necessary information about the activities of government agencies on a single resource.

 

 We remind you that there is a special website in the context of the pandemic (https://www.coronavirus2020.kz) and Telegram-a channel where all relevant information is accumulated on the rules of conduct during quarantine, measures taken by the state to combat coronavirus, statistics on the number of cases and recoveries, refutations of false information spreading in the network, etc.