A regular meeting of the Commission on access to information was held
On July 17, a regular meeting of the Commission on access to information was held in Nur-Sultan under the chairmanship of the Minister of Information and Social Development Aida Balayeva..
Representatives of Central state and local Executive bodies, quasi-public sector, non-governmental organizations and other organizations took part in the meeting, which was held in a remote format.
During the meeting, issues of ensuring access to information for persons with disabilities were discussed.
According to the Ministry of Labor and Soб
э,cial Protection of the population (MLSP), the websites of state bodies and quasi-state organizations are not sufficiently adapted for people with special needs.
To solve this problem, according to the MLSP, it is necessary, first, to bring the national standards of web accessibility for persons with special needs in line with the international standard Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, and secondly, to test web resources by these persons.
In turn, Minister Aida Balayeva noted that systematic work on the part of the authorized body and close interagency cooperation could eliminate a number of issues.
Representatives of the quasi – public sector-Passenger transportation JSC and Kazpost JSC-also reported on the measures taken and planned to ensure access to information for persons with disabilities.
According to information of JSC "Passenger traffic", to create barrier-free access for persons with disabilities to service stations and develop an action plan, which provides for the laying of tactile paths, installing signs using Braille and purchase tactile-audio diagrams.
Kazpost JSC, in turn, plans to adapt Post resources during 2021.kz and Kazpost.kz for people with disabilities, and by the end of this year to launch the functions of voice and video reception of requests from customers in a chatbot in Telegram.
The issue of transparency of budget information was considered next.
The report of the Vice-Minister of Finance R. S. Yensebayev presents the measures taken to ensure the openness of the budget, including the implementation of API services for transmitting reports from the IAIS "e-Ministry of Finance", the normative consolidation of the procedure for implementing the "people's participation budget", etc.
At the same time, the integration of the portal "Open budgets" with the "e-Ministry of Finance" will solve the problems of quality, relevance and completeness of information posted on this portal.
In turn, Aida Balayeva noticed that the results of the published international Review of budget openness for 2019 indicate the need to increase public access to budget information and public participation in budget formation.
The meeting also discussed the functioning of the Unified platform for Internet resources of state bodies (UPIR SB).
We remind that UPIR SB was launched at the beginning of this year in order to combine the official Internet resources of all state bodies. As of today, all ministries, 12 akimats and a number of state bodies accountable to the President have switched to UPIR SB.
At the same time, the Minister noted that information on the websites of state bodies should always be up-to-date.
At the end of the meeting, the results of the annual assessment of the effectiveness of government agencies in the direction of "Openness of the state body", conducted by the Ministry according to 5 criteria ("Open data", "Open budgets", "Open NLA", "Open dialogue" and "Openness of subordinate organizations") were considered.
In addition, the Minister drew special attention to the need for members of the Commission and speakers to prepare speeches or presentation materials in the state language.
As a result of the meeting, the Commission made a number of recommendations to state bodies and organizations of the quasi-public sector to increase the level of openness and improve the quality of feedback.