pacities of inter-institutional cooperation in
pursuing and preventing the dangers deriving from cyber crime. Closer cooperation on
the regional and global levels as well as the
improvement of legislation for the security
of networks and information in line with
the EU practices is necessary.
Safer Internet Practices
Albania has adopted an action plan for the
protection of children’s rights (DCM No.
182/2012). This document also foresees a
few activities for the online protection of
children. Pursuant to this plan, in February
2013 the largest electronic communications
companies in Albania and the IT association
company, AITA signed the Code of Conduct,
as a self-regulatory practise. Upon the signing of this code the companies engaged in
delivering technical filtration techniques and
parental advice for the protection of children and young people from the illegal and
harmful electronic communications.
In the last few years Albania has periodically
carried out awareness activities for a safer
internet, as well as activities on the international day of Safer Internet.
Raising the awareness for parental control,
protection of children from the illegal and
harmful internet and online media content
requires more attention and the engagement of different institutions and actors,
such as, the private sector, NGOs, media,
schools and parent community.
Albania is part of the Global Alliance against
the Sexual Exploitation of Children in the
Internet, established on December 5, 2012.
The alliance countries have agreed to work
in achieving four objectives:
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Increase the efforts for the identification
of victims and ensuring that they will receive the necessary assistance, support
and protection;
Increase the efforts in investigating
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the sexual exploitation cases against
children on the internet and identify and
prosecute persons violating the law;
Increase the awareness of children,
parents, educators and the community
in general in relation to the dangers;
Reduce the availability of child pornography on the internet and ri-victimization of children.
Open governance
through ICT
The Open Governance Partnership (PQHOGP) is one of the most important instruments to stimulate government transparency at the global level, to increase civic
participation in public life and to use the new
technologies for the improvement of administrative efficiency and fighting corruption.
The first OGP Action Plan for 2011-2013 was
mainly focused in the increase of efficiency
for the management of public resource services, by implementing measures in the
field of fiscal transparency, access to information, utilization of information technology (IT) and participation of citizens in the
process of development of public policies.
Work was carried out during 2014 to draft a
second OGP action plan. The drafting of this
plan was carried out through a long consultation process with a wide participation of
the interest groups. The second action plan
entered into force in July 2014. Pursuing
the government programme and the OGP
plan, the document of the policy for the implementation of the open data was drafted
and adopted by way of the Decision of the
Council of Ministers No. 147, dated
18.2.2015.
The portal for the transparency of budgetary
expenses as a special feature in the website
of the Ministry of Finance10 was established
pursuant to the engagements for an open
governance.
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