Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman held
a meeting with representatives of mobile operators on the introduction of
Mobile ID – an alternative electronic identity service.
The participants of the
meeting discussed prospects of launching technologies in Ukraine and necessary
legislative decisions. Representatives of mobile operators presented results of
a pilot project to introduce Mobile ID authentication service.
"ID service has to
provide distant communications, transparency and efficiency whatever it
concerns– bank, hospital, education, social assistance, public service – land,
building, or something else. A person has to get using his mobile phone a
possibility to order and receive any public service without any contact with
officials. This is a huge achievement, including fight against bribery,"
said Volodymyr Groysman.
"In fact, I believe that
every [service – ed.] should be distant. The practice when a person goes to get
some references should become history", stressed the Prime Minister.
According to him, Ukraine has
huge prospects for the development and introducing electronic technology that
would let people get high quality services.
"We must create necessary
services for people to minimize contacts with officials. Actually, every single
service - public, administrative, commercial – is vital to be provided as fast
as possible, distantly and efficiently," said the Head of the Government
in the beginning of the meeting.
In this regard, the Prime
Minister reminded that the Government had launched an electronic system of
public procurement ProZorro, opening of public registries, ID cards
instead of passports.
Volodymyr Groysman also
stressed the need to provide legal support both at the level of legislation and
governmental decisions to create legal opportunities for the implementation of
solutions and development of new technologies.
In this context, he assured of
the readiness of the Government to form a package of necessary legislative
initiatives, which will “enable companies to launch mobile identification,
which is key for the development of further products.”
He also urged all mobile
operators to establish an identical system that will be equally understood in
functioning among all the users.
Separately, Prime Minister
raised at the meeting a question asked by students of the National Technical
University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
about the prospects for the introduction of 3G technology in the Kyiv metro. It
was agreed that mobile operators would consider the feasibility of such
innovation and will report about results on Thursday.
The meeting was attended by
heads of leading Ukrainian mobile operators Kyivstar, MTS Ukraine
(Vodafone), Lifecell, the management of the State Agency for
e-Governance, State Service of Special Communication and Information
Protection, National Commission for the State
Regulation of Communications and Informatization,
representatives of the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Economic Development
and Trade of Ukraine.
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