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receive assistance of competent services, but emergency services have to effectively handle
incoming calls and send appropriate help in a timely manner. Effective and coordinated action in
emergency situations and in each individual case of assistance significantly improves the quality
of emergency delivery and strengthens human security.
Required Actions
To ensure high quality and EU requirement compliant emergency services, it is necessary to
create single technology platforms for all the emergency services involved in the provision of
emergency services so that they use a single or at least fully compatible set of systems that would
significantly reduce the response time to assistance requests and to increase the exchange of
information security. In addition, it is necessary to lay down common principles for the
development of technological for all services involved in provision of assistance so that
modernisation of one service does not disarrange the technical collaboration between other
services.
Public education on the ways to summon assistance, as well as the provision of assistance
reception, thus increasing confidence in getting help, should be continued.
5.7.3 Trust In the Electronic Environment
Information society exists and develops thanks to public and ICT interaction, in addition, the
higher added value ICT is able to provide to the public, the greater is the ICT impact on the
individual and society as a whole. The situation is additionally aggravated by the fact that ICT
solutions include technically and legally complex, hardly understandable and comprehensible
concepts and their implementation mechanisms, as a result individual’s natural protective
response does not create motivation to start using the new ICT solutions. Therefore, it should be
taken into account that the public perception of the ICT usage will vary – both technology
enthusiasts and “wise wait and see” persons are present. Therefore, for a smooth and successful
development of information society it is essential to timely achieve the awareness of the “wait
and see” part of the public on the range of ICT solutions and services, expected result, required
prior and subsequent action, technological and legal certainty and confidence.
Not less importantly, ICT solutions and services should be built, so that by using them, they
allow the user to feel safe and confident of the results, create a positive experience, would not
allow the user to feel overwhelmed and would help to resolve ambiguous situations. Actions of
ICT solution developers and services providers play an important role as well, by following
recognised safety standards, guidelines and industry best practice, developing solutions and
offering their services.
Trust in the electronic environment is also hindered by ignorance and lack of understanding of
electronic data, including the options of electronic document long-term storage. Electronic
transfer of data to the State Archive is one of the most important public e-services which has not
got practically simple and legally set solution. It is not clear how to transfer electronic data into
archive, thus the overall development of e-services is hampered. The improvement of this egovernance function would allow the development of more e-services and usage of e-documents
in services.
information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines
2014-2020