The Digital Hungary Agency was established
Due to the many parallels, a new system is being created based on successful foreign examples.
The Digital Hungary Agency (DMÜ) was established, on September 11, a state IT company and a budget body with about five thousand employees from four ministries joined the newly formed organization – CEO Zoltán Guller introduced on Monday at a background meeting in Budapest.
He announced that four priority projects will be launched, one of which is the creation of digital citizenship in 2023. As an example, he mentioned that identification will not require an identity card, which can be done via mobile phone. The goal is to achieve digital identification by 2026 and to do everything digitally.
In the future, DMÜ will perform state tasks related to e-public administration, IT, the unification of e-public administration and IT, electronic communication activities for governmental purposes, and ensuring the infrastructural implementation capacity of public administration IT.
“A new timeline has begun in the field of government IT with clear goals and a customer-oriented approach,” said Zoltán Guller.
The companies will be screened by the end of the year, and due to many parallels, a new system will be created based on successful foreign examples.
He said: the new operating system was implemented in eight months. More than 30 current strategies affect the field of state IT, according to the plans, there will be a strategy, which will be determined by the end of the year – enumerated, enumerated: it is planned to launch a public consultation on many issues.
They are investigating the government’s cloud strategy and the implementation of the data-driven state institutional system. He mentioned tourism as an example, where data-driven decision-making has already been implemented with the introduction of the National Tourist Information Center (NTAK) in 2019, which put the accommodation service sector on the path to full digitization.
According to Zoltán Guller, one of the most important goals is to make the public administration customer-friendly, for easy, logical administration, by turning the 1,300 applications into customer-centered ones. Data-based governance will play an important role, he said. The state has an extremely large amount of data available from which decisions can be made and prepared, he called this a priority.
The operation of the DMÜ is supervised by the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office, in order to rationalize the operation, the DMÜ will act as a kind of umbrella organization.
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