We have a major project that will bring digitisation directly into people's lives, in the most accessible and useful form, said Richard Rashi, Minister of Investment, Regional Development and Informatics, today on the second ministerial day in Kežmarok. Together with colleagues from other departments directly affected by the project, they presented plans to facilitate citizens' communication with authorities and other institutions.
We are also here today to present a major step in the digitisation of public services, which will bring concrete solutions to the lives of our citizens, in addition to negotiations with mayors, mayors and heads of district offices. With the digitisation of priority living situations, we started in 2019 and removed many listings, but the former governments did not move on and lay in the drawer. That's changing. Our aim is to continue it and ensure that people no longer have to carry unnecessary papers or physically visit the authorities, because this information is already owned by the state and can be shared by individual ministries. Together with colleagues from other departments, we are preparing solutions for the digitisation of 16 life situations that will significantly simplify administrative processes, save time and energy for citizens and make their lives much easier, and Minister Rashi said he added that this project will be financed from the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Slovak Republic.
Changes are also brought by the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic. From 1 January 2025, an electronic wallet will be launched in Slovakia to enable citizens to save their citizens' ID and driving licences and later other documents for mobile applications, thus facilitating communication with the state. We should not turn citizens into postmen who have to carry documents in office. The state is supposed to help people, not complicate their lives, the Minister of Interior Matúš Šutaj Eštok stressed that legislation has also been adopted to facilitate the purchase and sale of vehicles, the process of changing residences or the handling of birth certificates, regardless of whether the child is born at home or abroad. Changes will also affect entrepreneurs who will be able to sign forms without the need for a citizens' card reader and will pay any fees simply online. We want citizens to live more easily in Slovakia, without unnecessary complications and running around offices. Digitisation will allow us to do things faster, more efficient and more comfortable, and the head of the interior department added.
For example, in the event of a loss of employment, the Social Insurance Institution will be automatically informed by the employer and the citizen will receive information on the entitlement to benefits or job offers in the mobile application. A similar approach already works for electronic PN, where 99 percent of doctors use a system that saves people their way to the authorities.
Significant simplifications are also planned in the health sector, where two key electronic solutions are being developed to facilitate communication between patients, healthcare professionals and the state. The first project is an electronic pregnancy book that will be automatically updated on the basis of medical records and available to all doctors looking after the next mother. This platform will relieve moms from administrative obligations both before and after childbirth, with data being shared automatically between institutions," explained Health Minister Kamil Šaško.
The second is the extension of the e-health book to allow patients to have an overview of their health records in the digital environment. This system will remove unnecessary paperwork and allow doctors fast and easy access to structured medical documentation, thus saving time for patient care itself.
Minister Rashi also commented on the plans of the Minister of Education, Tomáš Drucker, who was unable to attend today's press conference. The Ministry of Education is preparing an interactive map of schools, which will be accessible from 2025. This tool will allow parents to choose the most appropriate school for their child on the basis of detailed information on capacity and gradient schools," he said. Parents will have an overview of all primary, kindergartens and secondary schools in Slovakia and the system will also help them effectively divide pupils according to the capacity of each school. This will simplify children's applications and facilitate parents' orientation in the school system.
Peter Kmec, Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery and Resilience Plan, stressed that the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Slovak Republic will be dedicated EUR 177 million to improving digital services for different living situations. The aim is to modernise, streamline and make public services available to all citizens throughout Slovakia, and concluded.
All living situations can be found on the website of the Slovak Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informaticswww.mirri.gov.sk.