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“Organisational Model of State Information and Communication Technology Management”10 is
an important precondition for the improvement of coordination within the development planning
period of 2014 - 2020, however, effective coordination mechanisms are still to be developed for
the management of mutually related projects.
● the common use potential of ICT infrastructure has been exploited insufficiently. The
frequently observed practice in the development planning period of 2006 - 2013 – the ICT
infrastructure is also included in each information system development project for ensuring the
operation of the relevant information system. Thereby, reinvestments are made in the ICT
infrastructure. This does not comply with the good practice of ICT management because
centralised platforms of ICT infrastructure are more useful to make, which are able to provide the
necessary ICT infrastructure resources both at the department level and national level, by using
modern technologies in a flexible way according to the safety requirements. Therefore, activities
for the development of centralised platforms must be envisaged within the development planning
period of 2014 – 202, thereby optimising the ICT infrastructure in the public administration.
● Synergy from the electronisation of the public administration processes, availability of eservices and readiness of the private sector to use electronic solutions which could allow an
increase in the activity efficiency of public administration institutions by optimising and
modifying the administration processes was not sufficiently used in the EU Structural Funds’
planning period of 2007 – 2013. The usage of such synergy would ensure the creation of
innovative solutions. Failure to use such an approach relates to the concentration of attention on
electronisation of the operation processes within the framework of each institution and according
to the activity processes of the paper document flow. Therefore, the activities for the modifying
of public administration activity processes to “only electronically” must be envisaged in the
planning period of 2014 – 2020 which allows all the opportunities provided by the available ICT
technologies to be used more efficiently.
● open data usage possibilities are provided in the public administration in individual
exclusive cases only. By providing free access to the data possessed by the State, a possibility of
immediate involvement of the private, non-governmental and scientific sector is created in the
development of e-services and ICT products based on the State data, as well as for immediate
analysis and investigation of the situation, thereby promoting the economic development of the
State, creation of work places, as well as modelling and expectation of social processes.
On the other hand, in order to promote cooperation and mutual interaction of the public
and private sector solutions, as well as to create the preconditions for the development of such
uses which differ from the ones initially planned, which are able to operatively adjust to the
current technology possibilities and are sustainable, more emphasis should be laid on the
development of the open interfaces (API) for the provision of public services.
● in the EU Structural Funds’ planning period of 2007 – 2013 the focus has been laid on egovernment development at the national level. However, a large part of the e-services are not
adjusted in order to ensure the establishment of cross-border e-services and interoperability of the
national systems at the European level because several cross-border cooperation projects and
initiatives in Europe were only started during the EU Structural Funds’ planning period of 2007 2013, and, planning the activities of the period at the national level, the results to be achieved
were still not predictable or were not clear enough (for example, the project STORK was started
in 2008, while the project SPOCS was started in 2009). The digital single market remains the
leading motive of the Digital Agenda for Europe, and Latvia must make its contribution to the
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Concept “Organisational Model of the State Information and Communication Technology Management”
http://www.likumi.lv/doc.php?id=254909
information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines
2014-2020