The final meeting of the Commission on access to information for 2019 was held in the capital
Nur-Sultan, under the chairmanship of Minister of information and social development of the Republic of Kazakhstan Dauren Abaev has hosted the final meeting of the Commission on questions of access to information for 2019, in which took part deputies of Senate and Majilis of Parliament of Kazakhstan, representatives of Central state and local Executive bodies, NGOs and the expert community in the field of access to information.
During the meeting, the Commission discussed issues related to prospects of development of data-journalism project of the reference model of the openness of m & e results data analysis the information systems of state bodies and state agencies take measures to reduce workflow.
At the meeting of the Commission, Director of the Department of state policy in the field of access to information Rakhimov Bekzat made a report on the reference model of transparency of local Executive bodies and scaling up the positive experience in ensuring transparency of akimats in all regions.
In his speech, Director of the Department Bekzat Rakhimov noted that based on the results of the assessment of the effectiveness of state bodies in 2018, the presidential Administration's instruction to develop a reference model of transparency of akimats was implemented.
"On June 24 this year, a Republican seminar-meeting on the openness of local Executive bodies was held. Members of the Commission took a direct part in its work. During the workshop, the best practices of ensuring the openness of the activities of the akimats of Nur-Sultan and Almaty, Pavlodar and West Kazakhstan regions were heard, the issues of using IT technologies and communication with the media, as well as the needs of disabled people in obtaining information were discussed," Bekzat Rakhimov said.
He also said noted that the work in this direction attracted by the non-profit joint-stock company "Kazakhstan Institute of social development, "Rouhani gear".
This organization analyzed the best practices of the OECD countries to ensure openness and involvement of the population in the decision-making process.
In his report, the Chairman Of the Board of non-commercial joint-stock company "Kazakhstan Institute of social development "Rukhani zhangyru" Kemelbek Oishybayev noted that currently a standard model of openness of m&e has been developed, which was presented to representatives of akimats of 17 regions.
According to Kemelbek Oishybayev, the standard model of openness provides for 7 steps. Step 1 - information, step 2 - identifying the problem, step 3 - preparation process, step 4 -solution, step 5 - coordination with civil society representatives, step 6 - implementation and monitoring, step 7 - evaluation.
In turn, the Minister of information and social development Dauren Abayev stressed that the opinion of society must necessarily be identified and taken into account when making public management decisions at various levels.
In addition, at the meeting, a member of the Commission, a lawyer of the organization "Internews Kazakhstan" Olga Didenko told about the development of data journalism in Kazakhstan.
Also at the Commission meeting were the Director of the Department of open government and data of JSC "Zerde" G. Abdigalieva on issues of data analysis information systems of state bodies, Deputy head of the Department of control and documentation support the CPM B. A. Tuleuov, representatives of the MCS, the MES, MLSP on the measures implemented by public authorities to reduce paperwork.
In conclusion, the members of the Commission discussed the draft work Plan of the Commission for the upcoming year 2020.