Chairman Tegeltija Addresses to Participants of E-Administration Project

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of BIH Zoran Tegeltija addressed via video-link at the official launch of USAID Project E-Administration. The entire address of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of BIH follows below: 

Dear Excellency, Mr Nelson, representatives of USADID, institutions representatives, institutions, project team members, ladies and gentlemen,

 

I am pleased to greet you on behalf of the Council of Ministers of BIH, and my own, and to wish you successful work and project realisation.

 

I would like to thank you for your invitation to address to this extinguished gathering in connection to the E-Administration Project.

 

We are aware that BIH is at the very inception of digital transformation and that a long way forward is ahead of us. However, I think that with support of the international community and key institutions in the process of digitalisation we can and must catch with the counties of the region.

The digital transformation and global technologic breakthrough affect all spheres of our society, which is especially evident now in the time of the Covid-19 pandemics.

I am positive that technology may ensure considerable savings in the Budget of the BIH Institutions, simultaneously increasing their effectiveness.

 

As to the Public Administration Reform Strategic Framework, referred to in your documents, the belonging Action Plan was previously adopted at the Entity level and by the Council of Ministers, later, on Dec. 16, 2020 , for it is merely the service provision area in which we west our great hopes. I would like to express my satisfaction for I see that all international organisations, including the USAID, have launched a major multi-annual project to help us accelerate the digitalisation process in Bosnia and Herzegovina, therefore I am glad to see that along all strategic avenues coordinated actions are in place between the British Embassy, UNDP, USAID, European Commission and all-level Institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Given the limited budget resources we can deploy to digitalisation of public administration, I believe that support of international organisations through projects like this one is key for smooth digitalisation processes and projects implementation within timeframe set.

Also, I would like to stress the importance of ICT in anti-corruption efforts, e-procurement, increased public sector transparency, increased accountability and narrowed space for discretionary decision-taking.

 

Although BIH is in an early stage of public administration reform and at the very beginning of e-administration, this is a process to last and bring BIH among the countries with effective and economic public and developed-e-administration.

 

I wish you all a lot of success and many thanks to the E-administration project team for giving me a chance to attend this on-line meeting, hopeful that the next meeting, despite advancement of modern technologies, would be held live.

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